This question was when I could tell I was starting to get better at reference practice. My partner and I very quickly happened upon the article we were looking for, and the way we arrived at it seemed very logical.
Prompt: I've lost a citation to a good article I wanted to read for class. It was something about how midwives use the web to find medical information. Might have been from a conference or something. It's pretty recent. Help!
My partner, Sue, and I quickly accessed the Pyschological Abstracts database in the PCL website and identified the key concepts for this request: Midwife and Web. We searched for these, and the controlled vocabulary for these terms were revealed: Midwifery and Internet. We searched again using these two synonyms, and added the term "information," using all three in a joint "AND" Boolean expression. We received a good list of hits, and the second resource, "Delivering The Goods: Midwives' Use of the Internet" by Sarah Stewart was in fact first presented at a conference. That, besides fitting the criteria very neatly, was the final reason we knew we'd found the right source.
It was rewarding to know that I am learning how to access needed information more quickly, narrowing my search terms quickly and accurately. This practice question was definitely an ego booster.
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