Newspapers

Have you tried one of our Time Machines?

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Gardiner was a robust printing center throughout the 19th century and into the 20th century, producing, in addition to books and pamphlets, several newspapers over the decades.  From the Eastern Chronicle (1824-1826) and Cold Water Fountain (1844-1848) to the Gardiner Home Journal (1858-1892) and Reporter Journal (1893-1913) (and many others in between and after), Gardiner steadily chronicled local goings on and kept up with the news of the state and nation. We are incredibly lucky to have the majority of Gardiner’s historic periodicals preserved on over 100 reels of microfilm here in the library’s Community Archives Room and available for research.  We …

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How to Keep Children Reading During the Summer

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Summer is a great time to get your children excited about reading and sharpen their reading skills at the same time!   Relax a little bit — try not to worry about a daily time requirement or minimum number of pages; instead, let them choose what, when, and where they read. There are lots of ways to keep kids reading this summer. Read aloud   Take turns reading aloud with your child. You can each read a page, or for older readers, you can take turns reading chapters. Kids never get too old to be read aloud to, and listening …

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MARVELous Invitational Lesson 3 – Maine Newsstand

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    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 …

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Maine Newsstand

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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 …

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Marvel – Kids Search

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Another wonderful database provided in Marvel. Kids Search is, as you may have guessed, geared toward the younger user.  It searches several sources at once.  My first search was “elephant”, using the search bar on the first page.  This brought up over 1800 results!  Next I was given the opportunity to Filter Results By.  My choices were All Results, Magazines, Newspapers, Books & Encyclopedias, Animals, Biographies, Radio & TV News Transcripts, and Primary Source Documents. WOW! Where do I begin to filter?? I clicked on Biographies, and narrowed my search to 15 results, all of these being from electronic encyclopedias.  …

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