worldcat and eric competency and rss

Eric/Worldcat Competency

Topic of Interest: archiving and history

“naïve” question: What kind of information is available about archiving in academic librarianship, as this is the field I would like to work in someday?

I have a history background and would love to combine my two areas of study (history and librarianship) into a job, which means working in archiving in a special collections or university library.

Facets	librarianship	academic	archives
My initial search terms	Library, librarian	School, university	archives
Thesaurus	Library science Library Research Library education	Academic libraries Archives College libraries	Library collections Records Management

Boolean Logic statement (library science or library research or library education) and (academic libraries or archives or college libraries) and (library collections or records management)

Eric Database

1. Search Statement – Boolean logic statement
2. Results 1,776 records
3. Notes – there are too many results, using a promising article as a jumping off point I refine my search to include just three of the search terms

1. Search statement – archives, academic libraries, library collections
2. Results 56 records
3. Notes – these results are actually pretty good, but they can still be narrowed further, I chose 4 articles and looked at their headings to refine my search.

1. Search statement – archives, academic libraries, history
2. Results 24 records
3. Notes – I found several articles that I liked, the best one was this: "Heritage through Oral History and Archival Images"

It’s the kind of project that I am looking to work on once I am finished with school.

Worldcat

1. Search Statement – Boolean search terms
2. Results 170 records in English
3. Notes - the results need to be narrowed, I looked at a few of the articles and chose new search terms based on them

1. Search Statement – archives, academic library, collections
2. Results 107 records in English
3. Notes – there are a lot of web results, I looked through to try and refine my search

1. Search Statement – archives, academic library, library collections
2. Results 78 records in English
3. Notes – this is a more manageable number, there are still a lot of web results, this is the one I like the best: "University of Huddersfield Library: Archives and Special Collections: Sources in Women's History"

Not only is this about archives, it also has to do with women’s history (which my M.A. is in) and it is located in England which is a place that I would love to work.

I noticed that the WorldCat produced a lot more web results and that Eric produced only articles. My search terms were slightly different on each, but they were very similar.

RSS Feed

I chose 2 RSS Feeds, one from the national archives and one the Library Journal about academic libraries as these are the two areas I am interested in. They are both showing on the side.