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Monday, February 22, 2010

Library Literature, and B.I.P Search

As a public librarian, one of my main goals is to find ways to entice teens into the library, and to have them participate in more programs.

My naive question:
How can I increase teen participation in public library programing?

In my Library Literature search, using advance search, under subject, I typed in
public library OR resources AND adolescents
the search resulted in 6 records, of these 6, 2 met the criteria I was hoping for.

Boon, L.A. Designing Library Space for Children and Adolescents: Planning the Modern Public Library Building. Libraries Unlimited, 2003

Allen P.D. Lifestyle Variables and Adolescent Public Library Use. 1988 p.48.

For my B.I.P search I attempted to use the same query.
Under Advanced search, using the same terms, under subject, I typed the terms as I had in my Library Lit. search. Public Library OR resources AND adolescents under keyword.
my search turned up 673 results.
Revising the search, under subject, I typed in public library resources, and keyword adolescents.
My search resulted in 0 records this time.
I decided to try quicksearch (mainly because I had not tried it before), I typed in youth programing hoping for better results,this time my search resulted in 308 results.
I did find a pertinent search result I liked, listed below, as well as an additional search I found interesting. I knew I needed to narrow the search,but I was unsuccessful in doing so, and my continued searches resulted in similar results. I was not comfortable in my B.I.P search, overall, I felt I did a poor job of findingresults for my search.

Lupa,Robyn.More Than My Space: Teens, Librarians and Social Networking. Aug.2009 p.130

As I searched this title for information I noticed under Bowker Subjects a link to an additional resource. This title also seemed to fit in well with my search criteria.
Walter, Virginia A. Twenty First Century Kids, Twenty First Century Librarians. Aug 2009
American Library Association. p.112

Saturday, February 13, 2010

WorlCat/ERIC Competency

My query:
How can public libraries acces grants to fund teen programming?

My search using WorldCat

My search took me to OCLC search
using the search statement
ss1.
public library funding and grants
and
library funding
12 records were found
I browsed through each of the 12 records, and decided that the best match to my search query was:
Showing you the Money: LSTA Funds and Fifty Two Resources to Find Funding forYouth Services in Libraries.

My ERIC search
ss1
public library funding for teens
and
grant funding for public libraries
result - No matches found
ss2
library funding
and
grants
and
public libraries
result- 141 records found
of these, I chose
A Catalyst for Change: LSTA grants to states program activities and the transformation of Library services to the Public
I continued to search the links from this cite and found a connection to
LSTA Youth Projects
Also, I noted that my search result from OCLC- Showing you the Money: LSTA Funds and Fifty Two Resources to Find Funding for Youth Services in Libraries.

Over all I think my search was fairly successful.

Monday, February 8, 2010

competency 3

Public library patrons are information seekers.
Some are seeking the great american novel, other's educational resources, and other's seek help finding information, on how to find information.
I have included a link to a podcast, and feed, to which the answer to a patrons query might be answered if he/she were asking about enviromental education topics.
This is one of several possibilities.

http://personallifemedia.com/podcasts/224-living-green
feed: http://personallifemedia.com/podcasts/224-living-green.rss