ProjectMuse DB4 Competency

Database: ProjectMuse

Naïve Question: Do College Students use the Academic Library?

Facets: Academic LIbrary, College, Students

Search Strategy – Specific Facet search

SS1: Search for Academic Library (subject)

Results: 56

SS2: Search for College (subject)

Results: 1508

SS3: Search for Students (subject)

Results: 922

SS4: Search for College Students (subject)

Results: 573

Observations: The most specific facet of this search is Academic Library. Since there were only 56 results I scanned through them and found this article:

In a roundabout way this article tells me that college students are using the academic library, and explores which disciplines use it the most.

JSTOR DB3 Competency

Database: JSTOR

Naïve Question: What are the archiving practices and history of theological libraries?

Facets: History, Archives, and Theological Libraries

Search Strategy – Building block search

Facets History Archives Thelogical Libraries

My search terms History archiving thelogical libraries

Historical

thesaurus Church History archives theological library

historical libraries archiving

SS1: Boolean Search statement (theological library) and (history or church history or historical libraries) and (archives or archiving)

Results: 7796

Unfortunatley this database does not provide futher subject headings to choose from for another search, so I decide to employ limiters, I limit to only articles and only English

SS2: Boolean Search statement (theological library) and (history or church history or historical libraries) and (archives or archiving) with limiters Articles and English

Results: 4067

I further limit the results by choosing the disciplines of Religion, History, and language and literature

SS2: Boolean Search statement (theological library) and (history or church history or historical libraries) and (archives or archiving) with limiters of disciplines Religion, History, and language and literature

Results 2816

This is still a lot of articles, but it has been narrowed down, so I decide to sift through the results and see if I can find anything interesting. I find an article that peaks my interest here is the screen shot:

This article talks about the archives, libraries, and museums attached to a seminary in Poland. It gives an interesting account of the history of these places.

Worldcat database DB2 Competency

Database: Worldcat

Naïve Question: What are the archiving practices and history of theological libraries?

Facets: History, Archives, and Theological Libraries

Search Strategy One – Specific Facet

Search for Thelogical Libraries (subject)

Results: 1,363 1,295 in english

Observations: this database shows promise, this search tells me I might find something

Search Strategy Two – Building block search

Facets History Archives Thelogical Libraries

My search terms History archiving thelogical libraries

Historical

thesaurus Church History archives theological library

historical libraries

church archives

SS1: Boolean Search statement (theological library) and (history or church history) and (archives or historical libraries or church archives) subject search

Results: 5 articles

Observations: none of these article are terribly relevant so I decide to expand my search to a keyword, rather than subject search

SS2: (theological library) and (history or church history) and (archives or historical libraries or church archives) keyword search

Results: 196, 168 in english

Observations: I scanned through the results and found two articles that looked interesting.

The first article gives a kind of history of the American Theological Library Assocaition and the second article is more about how church historians work together with the library. Both are not exactly the answer to my question but they both give a historical perspective to theological libraries.