The database that I used for the specific facet searching was LibLit. From my search terms the facet that I thought would bring me the fewest hits is adults. I tried that term and the database came back with 7,900 hits, none of which had any relevance to my blog on the first page of hits. The second facet I tried was illiteracy. I received 1,218 hits for this facet. As there were several articles on the first page that were relevant. The third facet that I tried was library. 163,429 articles were retrieved when I just searched for library.
Based on these numbers I would go back and use the building block search strategy to narrow down my hits and hopefully retrieve a number of articles and that were both small in number and relevant to my blog.
adults with 7,900
illiteracy with 1,218
library with 163,429
Combining these as (adults) AND (illiteracy) AND (library) I retreived 85 articles and while the first couple were applicable the one that was most suitable and interesting to my topic was:
Sherry, D. Providing Reading Buddies for the Children of Adult Literacy Students: One Way to Provide Onsite Child Care While Also Addressing Intergenerational Illiteracy. Colorado Libraries v. 31 no. 1 (Spring 2004 [i.e. 2005]) p. 40-2.
Based on these numbers I would go back and use the building block search strategy to narrow down my hits and hopefully retrieve a number of articles and that were both small in number and relevant to my blog.
adults with 7,900
illiteracy with 1,218
library with 163,429
Combining these as (adults) AND (illiteracy) AND (library) I retreived 85 articles and while the first couple were applicable the one that was most suitable and interesting to my topic was:
Sherry, D. Providing Reading Buddies for the Children of Adult Literacy Students: One Way to Provide Onsite Child Care While Also Addressing Intergenerational Illiteracy. Colorado Libraries v. 31 no. 1 (Spring 2004 [i.e. 2005]) p. 40-2.
As the specific facet search includes the building block technique I again found this search easy to narrow down and perhaps find some serendipitous results. I did find it a little frustrating to start off with searching for the broadest term first, but I do realize that it helps to build the search for later.
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