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1. Use WorldCat (in FirstSearch), a database selected in ProQuest, and ebrary to search for your topic. What is the major difference between WorldCat and the ProQuest database you selected? How does WorldCat differ from your local library catalog? Describe ebrary and how it differs from your local library catalog?

2. For ProQuest, list the search strings you used to perform the search and the total number of records found.

3. For ebrary, record your search terms and the total number of records found.

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1. Use WorldCat (in FirstSearch), a database selected in ProQuest, and ebrary to search for your topic. What is the major difference between WorldCat and the ProQuest database you selected? How does WorldCat differ from your local library catalog? Describe ebrary and how it differs from your local library catalog?

My search string is: grassroots marketing AND viral marketing AND community college. Obviously I need to revise my search string because I was unable to receive any results with either WorldCat or ProQuest. ebrary, however, did return two results. Upon further review, there is irrefutable evidence that I should revise my search string. The search string that I tried second is: viral marketing AND community college. I can only assume that WorldCat and ProQuest do not use Boolean search logic, as both returned no matches. I did, however receive 11 matches through ebrary. Is this to show us that ebrary might be our best resource for documents and research information? I am quickly beginning to think so. As I was having no success with any of my search strings in either WorldCat or ProQuest, I finally settled on the search string: community college marketing. This brought very depressing results: 842 matches from WorldCat, 5142 matches from ProQuest, and 8752 matches from ebrary.

One advantage of using WorldCat that I found was the ability to limit your search more specifically. WorldCat offers the ...

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