Search terms:
•Diverse—synonyms: various, different assorted
•Young adults
•Collection development
My First Search:
The first search I’m going to perform is a building block search in the WorldCat database. This will involve me searching for each individual term and then putting them together using Boolean operators.
My final search was: collection development AND young adults AND diverse.
This resulted in 8 hits. One hit I found very relevant is “Extreme teens library services to nontraditional young adults.”
My Second Search:
The second search I’m going to perform is actually a browsing search in the Project Muse database. I started by browsing the journals the database had available. I looked at various journals, such as: The High School Journal and Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures.
The journal I found to be most useful to my search question was: Children's Literature Association Quarterly.
My Third Search:
The next search I performed was a successive fraction search in the Library Lit database. I started with the broad search for “young adults.” I then used the subject limiter to narrow it down to “young adults’ library services.” After that I used the subject limiter to narrow my search one more time by selecting “young adults’ literature selection.” This narrowed search received two hits, one of which I find useful: “Turing Point” by Rose Mary Honnold.
Young adults > subject: young adults’ library services > subject: young adults’ literature selection
My Fourth Search:
The fourth search I performed was a specific facet first search in the Eric database. However, none of my terms were specific enough to narrow the results. Because of this, I searched collection development AND young adults. This resulted in twenty-four hits, quite a few of which are useful.
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