Competency 6: Citation Pearl Growing

For this competency I chose to use the Lexis Nexis database. After an hour of fruitless searching, I changed to the Jstor database. I began using the terms technology or computers and library and research and student for my search. 34343 results were given. I searched through the first few pages, and most articles were about research at a college level, or at a strictly research school. I changed my terminology to include high school library. This also resulted in a large number of hits, 24193. I then put high school library in quotation marks. 109 hits were shown with more relevant articles for my search. I clicked on the article A Librarian's Perspective on Research http://online.twu.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_13_1 which was about a college librarian who helped a middle school student in their research. I then chose the link to related articles which led me to Helping Students Weave their way through the World Wide Web http://www.jstor.org/pss/821223. This article is about an English teacher who had to devise lessons to help students find accurate and credible articles on the internet as not everything on the internet is accurate. I could not read the whole article without signing up for access to the specific database this article was in. Overall, the Jstor database has a wide variety of information, but seems to have a controlled vocabulary because I had to be very specific in my search to come close to the information I wanted.