My thoughts...
I too have had the same situation develop over the years. My answer has been to
order curriclum-enhanced MARC records...you can usually get full contents and lots
of notes and summaries. With the addition of the full table of contents and
extensive notes a keyword search is pretty close to Google.
Terry
--
Terry Young, M.Ed., MLS
Librarian
West Jeff High School
New Orleans, LA
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: School Library Media & Network Communications
> [mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert Hiebert
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 11:18 AM
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: CATALOGUING: Your thoughts about adding lots of keywords to a
> record
>
>
> 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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