Specific Facet First Search

I performed my specific facet first search in Eric/Ebscohost. My topic is teenage boys and the middle school library. Of the three concepts, "teenage", "boys", and "middle school library", I decided that the most specific was "middle school library". I searched "middle school librar*" and full text only and received 20 hits. Some relevant hits were:

Mystery Solved: One Way To Motivate Middle Schoolers To Read. By: Herder, Deb Den. Book Report, v18 n4 p16,18 Jan-Feb 2000. (EJ608376)


Give 'em What They Want! Reorganizing Your Fiction Collection by GenrePreview . By: Dumas, Elizabeth P.. Library Media Connection, v24 n2 p20-22 Oct 2005. (EJ762294)


This was not a particularly useful search for me. First of all, it is cumbersome to have to figure out which concept in the query is the most specific. Then, you may have a problem of none of your concepts being specific enough to narrow the results down to a workable number. The other problem is that you may pick a concept that is too specific and does not yield enough results to work with.