Competency #6 Browsing Search Strategy

Browsing Search Strategy- is seeking and selecting information by skimming, scanning, and other similar activities. (Chu, 87)

Reflection: For this search I chose to search children’s audio in the LibLit database. I used the thesaurus tool and typed in my keywords: Children’s Audio. This initially returned no results but did return with the suggestion for the terms: Talking Books and Children’s Reading. “Talking Books” returned 300 records and Children’s Reading returned 290 records. The “Talking Books” search resulted in the most beneficial information, but neither of the searches was completely specific to what I was actually looking for. I found the browsing approach to be the most helpful because I can scan and look over the results myself and decide which results I want to pursue. I also think the reason I enjoyed this approach the most was because it was similar to looking through the results of an Internet search engine, which I am already familiar with.

Database: Library Lit
Thesaurus Terms Searched: Children’s Audiobooks, Talking Books, and Children’s Reading
Thesaurus Records Returned: Children’s Audiobooks: 0, Talking Books: 300 and Children’s Reading: 290.
Result: Grover, S., et. al., Hear and Now: Connecting Outstanding Audiobooks to Library and Classroom Instruction. Teacher Librarian v. 35 no. 3 (February 2008) p. 17-21