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MARVELous Invitational Lesson 3 – Maine Newsstand

February 14, 2022October 20, 2012 by Gardiner Public Library

This week the MARVELous assignment involves Maine Newsstand and the ProQuest Database. Those who have been reading along as this blog progresses, may remember that I posted about Maine Newsstand in July. So much for my originality! The first piece of this assignment is to look at the Maine Newsstand homepage. This page, as are most of the databases, is pleasant to look at – not a lot of extraneous things to distract the user. The Basicsearch works really well, so enough said on that I guess. Next on my list is to watch the tutorial about Maine …

Maine Newsstand

February 14, 2022July 21, 2012 by Ann Russell, Technology Librarian

Another wonderful addition to the Marvel Databases is Maine Newsstand. I must say this one, as a “Maine-I-Ac” is fascinating. *** Remember, you must have a VALID Maine library card to access this database! *** When I open this database, it is set for a Basic Search, and the Full Text radio box is unchecked. I search “Portland Head Light” with 22992 results. The first link that I see is from the Portland Press Herald, dated Mar. 2, 2005. Scrolling down the screen I see that the database indexes from 1993 – 2012. I also see a place to Sort …