ProQuest Dialog

My Search:

I did an advanced search for “Public Library” AND communities. I used quotation marks around public library so it will be considered a phrase during the search. Under search options, I limit my search to full text, peer reviewed and scholarly journals. I limit the publication date to the last 12 months and select scholarly journals and trade journals as the source type. I select articles as my document type and English as my language.

My Best Result:

What I learned, Content:

I selected an article called “Ask me what I read: reader’s advisory and immigrant adaptation” written by Karen Dali.

This article discusses how reader’s advisory can help newly arrived immigrants with psychological and socio-cultural adaption. Advantages gained from participation in reader's advisory include raised levels of intimacy and attraction between host and immigrant populations, helping build shared networks and create favorable contacts, and the improvement of readers' mastery of the second language and knowledge of a new country.

What I Learned, Searching:

ProQuest offers users several limiter options and it’s smart to make good use of them. My search turned up thirty-five results, which I think is a nice manageable size-not so many that it is overwhelming, but not so few that my choices were limited.

Reflection:

I liked searching ProQuest Dialog. Its limiters were very useful and returned relevant results. Still, I got a few really odd results that had nothing to do with my search, like the hit about the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl. I can’t figure out why it turned up in my results! Fortunately, it was the only odd result, the rest were relevant!

Reference:
Dall, Keren. "Ask Me What I Read: Reader's Advisory and Immigrant Adaptation.' New Library World (2013) 507-526. http://tinyurl.com/mcklyrv