Challenge Week 4: ProQuest

I did several different searches on ProQuest, partly as an experiment, but also because there are so many possibilities for exploration! I've been quite fascinated by the TED Talks whenever I've seen one...these short video presentations are always stimulating and opportunities for learning across the disciplines. I thought I'd investigate if there were some interesting articles that discussed the TEDTalks themselves and their impact on culture. Of course, the initial search I did just using those terms "Ted" and "talks" brought up way too many erroneous responses (about 25,103) that included the words Ted and talk, so I used quotation marks, allowing the search to run as one term and not two....much better, with 184 hits! When I added the filter of peer reviewed, I got down to 16! Nothing in those hits really seemed to intrigue me, so I moved on in my investigations and switched to "strategic planning" along with "public libraries" and found 524 hits. If I had more time, I'd be reading a lot of those articles! But, the main thing is that I know where to find them when the time comes.