Searching for a Topic

Here is how my initial dive into the term project went:

• Thought it would be interesting to look for info. on learning disabled students.


• Went to DIALOG to execute search and found it difficult to retrieve information on this because most articles seemed to be about students with physical disabilities, which I was not interested in.


• Felt frustrated and wondered if my search skills just weren't good enough to find what I was looking for.


• Resorted to Google, which lead me to a bibliography on minority student groups created by the ALA.


• Browsed the bibliography and did some citation chasing from items on it.


• I am interested in becoming an academic librarian, so the items relating to "mature" university student groups interested me, and there appeared to be many articles.


• Did a cursory scan of three potential references to make sure they looked promising.


• Came away fairly satisfied with what I'd gotten, but not incredibly inspired by the topic.

Sources so far:

Blaxter, L. and Tight, M., 1994. Juggling with time: How adults manage their time for lifelong education. Studies in the
Education of Adults 26 2, pp. 162–179.

Chatman, E., 1996. The impoverished life-world of outsiders. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 47 3,
pp. 193–206

Given, L.M., 2002. The academic and the everyday: Investigating the overlap in mature undergraduates' information-seeking
behaviors, Library & Information Science Research, 24 1, pp. 17-29. Retrieved October 3, 2005 http://
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6W5R-4550876-3/2/6cc96594c5c24c4fa795564693887bd7