Competency #8- Multimedia

YouTube

I went to YouTube and searched for videos and Intellectual Freedom. I found this one about banned books week.

Competency #7 Social Networking part 2

I searched for a site about intelletual freedom and chose the ALA's Myspace page. You can visit it here- http://www.myspace.com/atyourlibrary. I selected this page because I can't think of a better site when it comes to intellectual freedom. The American Library Association has a banned books week and is passionate about it. Here is a screen shot of their page-

Competeny #7- Social Networking

I have created a Myspace page which can be viewed here- www.myspace.com/erynisar. Here is screen shot of my page.

Competency #6- Even More Databases

ASP

I didn't find ASP but did see Academic Search Complete with is hosted by EbscoHost and figured it was the same thing.

I did a citation pearl growing search and searched for intellectual freedom. In that search I found the article Just Open the Door: Banned Books (and a Librarian!) in the Classroom by Erin Downey Howerton.



In the subject terms I discovered the phrase prohibited books. I clicked on it and found the following hits.



Lots of great resources!

Competency #6- More Database searching

WorldCat

I did a browsing search in WorldCat. I searched for intellectual freedom in school libraries and got 91 hits. Here is a screen shot of my search-



Here is one of the hits.



I was very impressed with this search. I got a good amount of hits but not too many and they seemed very relevant to my subject.

Competency #6: Databases

JSTOR

For my first search I used JSTOR and did a building block search. My search netted me 9,976 documents. Normally this would be way too many results and I would try to narrow the search by using a different type of search.


I did however find some useful ones including this one-



ERIC First Search

Next I used ERIC First Search to do a specific facet first search. When looking at my 3 facets-

Facet 1- Intellectual Freedom OR Banned Books OR Censorship
Facet 2 - High Schools OR Secondary Schools or Schools
Facet 3- Libraries

I decided that Facet 1 would give me the fewest results, so I searched it first and got 3,470 hits.
Then I searched Facet 2 and got 217,228 hits. Facet 3 got me 35,013 hits.

Here is a screen shot from my search of Facet 1.


Here is a shot of my search of Facet 2