For my class we had to find an article that relates to our research topic using database search methods.
I’ve had a whole tutorial on databases in high school.
Like hours and hours of library people telling me what a database is and why it’s useful to research. Now in college I’m going through the same sort of tutorials, but for some reason we’re learning these magical new ways to search a database.
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Why didn’t we learn this in high school? I understand that college is supposed to be a step up and it’s called higher education for a reason. But the research I did in high school could’ve been expedited by learning these simple ways to search key terms.
The librarians at my high school did nothing.
About once a day they’d do a short presentation in a class on the effectiveness and format of a bibliography. The rest of the day they’d spend sitting, waiting for students to ask them questions in the library.
Students didn’t really ever ask the librarians because the things they knew were so straightforward. Now this is not a shot at all the hard working librarians out there.
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I love libraries and I believe many librarians are proactive and helpful.
I think librarians play an extremely important role in our society and even though sometimes it’s annoying to listen to yet another talk about bibliographies, librarians are vital in order for our society to become more literate and educated.
Although, I do believe that my specific high school librarians could’ve been much more helpful and this would’ve given me a much better view of librarians in general.
Instead of learning just one tool in the research toolkit, if my high school librarians gave me the whole tool kit that’d be much more helpful. Why only give us bits and pieces of what we should know if it’s just as easy to give us the entire picture?
My research foundation could’ve been much stronger going into college if I had learned these necessary tools such as the little * that goes after a search term or how different synonyms of the search terms can often bring up many more results than the search term that one might expect.
Libraries are the best and librarians work at libraries, so they can’t all be that bad.