Movies for New Year’s Eve!

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Ah, New Year’s Eve!  The promise of a fresh start in a new year!  There are many movies we can think of right off that deal with the Christmas holiday season, but how well has Hollywood dealt with the holiday of New Year’s?  Quick – what movie comes to mind when I say “Happy New Year!“?  Not much comes to mind, does it? So, in the spirit of the holiday, here are a few movies that have New Year’s as the background for important plot lines: Poseidon Adventure (1972) – At midnight on New Year‘s Eve, the SS Poseidon is …

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Where am I??

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  This is very colorful! The view is great from here! Which window is this? All tied up! I am near the stage! Children play near this! Sailing in the wind! Old wood is beautiful!  

MARVELous Blog The Final Chapter (Plus Week 8)

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The week of Thanksgiving I was given a choice of blogging or not blogging.  At the time, not blogging seemed to work better for me, but now I plan to do the week 8 blog about Ancestry Library Edition and the final few questions of the blog exercise – Blog 11. Ancestry Library Edition looks very similar to the paid for version of Ancestry.com.  This is a site that I am rather familiar with, so I may jump around a bit more than I have when learning the other databases.  Please accept my apologies up front on this!  Ancestry Library …

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MARVEL Blog – Week 10

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Back to the MARVELous Blog assignments, what will we discover this week?  It looks like a have a choice.  My options are Academic Search Complete ; Masterfile Premier ;  MiddleSearch Plus or Primary Search.  I’m sure that I will look at ALL of these, but for now, I look at Masterfile Premier. First I take a few minutes to glance through and see what publications are available as resources.  At this point, all I can say is “WOW”!  Truly an amazing and broad range of resources in this database.  There are both PDF and HTML formats of complete articles. I …

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LearningExpress Library – MARVELous Blog 9

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What piece of the MARVEL resources are we learning about next?  Hmmm . . .  LearningExpress Library for Public Libraries – this looks to be a very interesting part of MARVEL. To begin this lesson, I register with LearningExpress Library.  This is a quick and simple process – just a user name and a password.  Now to play with some of the features.  Along the left side of the page are the Learning Centers.  These range from Elementary, Middle and High School through College information.  Also available in this column are Software Tutorials, Skill Building information, information about  gaining U.S. …

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Health Reasources – MARVELous Blog 7

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    This week we explore Health Resources in the MARVEL databases – Health Source – Consumer Edition and MedlinePlus to be specific. First, I check out (no pun intended) the Publications included in this database.  All I can say is “WOW!!!” There are I don’t know how many Publicationslisted.  They are listed in alphabetical order, I click on a couple different letters and see titles such as Date Rape: Unmixing Messages (2007) ; AARP: The Magazine ; Harvard Women’s Health Watch and Organic Gardening to name a few.  There seems to be quite a variety of publications available, some …

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