I was concerned at the start of this search technique in finding the initial article that I could build my search upon. The search terms I entered were "electronic resources" and "public libraries". The combined terms generated 655 hits. The very first hit was right on point: "Making Unmediated Access to E-Resources a Reality: Creating a Usable ERM Interface".
Within these search results, I narrowed the search topic to, "electronic resource management". The hits were reduced to 63. The first ten displayed were 100% match to the phrase I was searching. On the left side of the screen was the option to narrow the search results even further. I opted to narrow the search by year of publication. The topic was already on point, but I felt it was necessary to find the most current information. The results were even more successful and reduced the hits to 10, which is a manageable number of resources to read.
Again, I was pleasantly surprised with the search results. Knowing how to find the initial article helped tremendously in narrowing the results to find exactly what I wanted. The database is built to narrow the results with predefined critera. So it was up to me to get on the right track with the initial search and then take advantage of the database capabilities.
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