I have added contents for some books for years and have found it very
helpful. I started with collective biographies and story collections,
and noticed that the collective biographies especially stated to used
more. I then started to add contents for history books and any others I
think the students might need for research or interest. It has really
helped the students find books with information they need.
Rita Herl, Library Media Specialist
Andover Central Middle School
903 E. Central
Andover, KS 67002
herlr@usd385.org
1-316-266-8853
>>> Toni Koontz <akoontz@CDEDUCATION.ORG> 02/26/04 11:48AM >>>
I, too, have noticed that some students are getting frustrated when
they
have to keep trying different keywords - I tell them it is like being
a
detective, they have to keep gathering clues. However, I also noticed
that some who have found some interesting books have been coming to me
and telling me about it- and I immediately go to the material record
and
add something to the notes field about the subject. It really has
helped. I am seriously considering looking at the index and table of
contents to see if I should add more to the notes.
Toni Koontz
Librarian
St. Charles Preparatory School
Columbus OH
akoontz@cdeducation.org
Carpe Diem
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Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 11:18 AM
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Subject: CATALOGUING: Your thoughts about adding lots of keywords to a
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Hello All,
As I watch students (I'm in a high school of 500, grades 8 to 12)
search
my catalogue I see that their expectations have been established by
Google: when they do a keyword search for 'marijuana' they expect to
find every book with information about marijuana; of course, that is
not
what happens; they find only the books with the word 'marijuana'
entered
somewhere in the record. I then tell them they need to broaden their
search -- "try 'drugs' or 'drug abuse'" -- and many more hits appear.
There is no chance I am going to effectively teach even a small
minority
of our students how to 'broaden the search' (my half-time librarian
status is just one reason), so I'm thinking that my catalogue has to
be
more Google-like. To that end I am considering adding many more
keywords
to the book records. My first thought is to select keywords from the
table of contents of a book and list them in the 'note' field of the
book record.
I would appreciate your opinions about all this, and I would
especially
like to hear from anyone who is already doing this.
Thanks for listening.
Regards,
Robert
Robert Hiebert
Librarian, Golden Secondary School, BC, Canada www.gsslibrary.net
Fax: 250 344 7116
library@gsslibrary.net
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