I want to comment on Learning Express Library before moving on. I used it extensively in Edgemont and to help my friend Jayni who teaches foreign sutdents learning to live in America so I am very familiar with it  and have much use of it for testing. This is such and excellent and important resource for so many people I hope to be able to use it with the patrons in Gettysburg.

Now on to Proquest: I have written my answers as I have moved through these but I apologize for lack of detail on these resources. I have loved getting back into use of all the resources I used a lot in Edgemont! These are such great learning tools and I have used some I really didn't use before!
When typing in a basic search in the medical field there are thousands of results. The suggested Subjects offers different areas of focus. The options of narrowing a search were helpful to 'weed' the search topic and the bar graph is helpful.  It is easy to find a source that it understandable for all age levels and abilities to understand as they spend time working through the sources.
My profession research was to look at the articles on my husband in Western Horseman Magazine but there were no listings.
I have to agree with the blogger stating that this is easier for a journal someone wants to look up for a known article and for more advanced  researchers.

Gale Virtual Ref. Library:


I wanted to research Alzheimers disease but found little information other than Downs Syndrome presents a likely-hood of Alzheimers in later life. In Religion  I wished to look up Mennonites and they were not listed.
I looked up health with vitamins and found many resources on uses of them, foods to eat, etc.
Teachers could use these resources in classrooms with student  who learn better by listening than reading.
I am also interested in natural remedies and there was good information and bibliographical information and other sources for information.
There were technical difficulties in Berkshire Ency. for medical research.

E-books:
1. I researched alternative and herbal remedies since I don't do doctors and there were a number of books of interest, even books for natural pet care! Happy to see so much on natural menopause choices. In Smart Text the page options is useful and relevant pages option is very useful also.

2. Under Constitution Day on 9///17 there were no specific results plenty of results for books on the Constitution.

3. NE sight gives lots of results for reading. I am familiar with Univ. of NE publishers and know of many of their publications so that was not new to me. The same is true of the Univ. of OK. There are many ways to research anything and there is a lot of information.
Many of our patrons still prefer the tactile sensory feel of holding a book and interaction with the library personnel while some really prefer to read e-books!

World Cat:
Advanced search page has so many ways to search; by accession number, author, type of material, phrase, publisher, ISBN, and on and on.
I know hunger Games is popular and there were over a hundred (104) results with 5042 libraries and Alexander Mitchell as the top one. Call # was PZ7C6837  and dewey was PS3603.04558. I am familiar with KAT as I used World Cat a lot in Edgemont for inter-library loans and for cataloging new books.
I have never familiarized myself with OAI so it was a new experience. SD had 764 results. The links to any subject were useful with "access" link and to be able to view the pages of documents.

It is a white-out outside so I won't venture to the library for Archive Grid and CAMIO