Competency 6: The Snowballing/Citation Pearl Growing

After completing my specific facet I decided to use descriptors from a hit I recieved from LibLit to perform my snowballing/citation pearl growth.
I will perform a citation pearl growth/snowballing search in the database ProjectMuse.

Braxton, B. Encouraging Students to Read for Pleasure. Teacher Librarian v. 31
no. 3 (February 2004) p. 39-40.


The descriptors I added to my orginal query of "encourage children" and "reading for pleasure" are "school librarians" and "aims and objectives". After adding these new terms I recieved a total of 5 hits.


From those 5 hits I chose the article below:
Stauffer, Suzanne M., Developing Children's Interest in ReadingLibrary Trends - Volume 56, Number 2, Fall 2007, pp. 402-422 - Article

I use this search strategy often, but I didn't know it actually had a name. I think it would be eaiser to preform if I were actually able to use the same databse to preform the search. Otherwise, I think ProjectMuse was user friendly.