Competency 6d: Specific Facet First

Database: Project MUSE

Believing this would give me the fewest results, I searched the first facet: school library OR school library media centers. After this, I performed a quick test and got 26,688 results for the second facet: Academic achievement OR student learning OR student success. Although this was not one of my original sets, a third set was added with quotations around each of the terms in the first set. This was done because Project MUSE returned documents with either of the terms "school" and "library" in them but not the term "school library." Because none of these sets were helpful and needed to be more specific on what kind of articles I wanted, I added another set that combined the facets.

Set1: School librar* OR school library media center* = 17,760
Set2: Academic achieve* OR student learn* OR student success = 26,688
Set3: "School librar*" OR "school library media center*" = 12
Set 4: "School librar*" OR "school library media center*" AND "academic achieve*" = 12


Evalutation: At first, I thought that I could not find any articles discussing school libraries and student learning because both facets had not been combined. However, once combining these facets, I still could not find anything that pertained to what I was looking for. Project Muse interface is user-friendly, but I simply could not find anything that I was looking for. I would not recommend using this database, at least not for researching school libraries and academic success.