Monday, October 22, 2012

Week 3 Newspapers & Maine Newstand

Wow, I actually had no idea that I could access so many newspapers and wire services through Marvel!  I could not think of much to search for in the Maine Newstand, but I explored a bit.  I then went to the Proquest site, to search international and national sources.  I decided to search for the column of one of my favorite pundits:  Mark Shields.  I never get a chance to read his columns, but listen to him on Friday nights on the Newshour.  Anyway, I easily found his columns and read the most recent.  I then tried to create an alert, but was not able to do that.

Next, I looked at the Maine Memory Network (also mentioned in the tutorial).  I had learned a bit about that when I did some research on the Swan's Island Library fire -- the library burned to the ground in 2008.  It was rebuilt, but the interesting thing was that because the library had been the depository for so much island historical material, the fire led to the creation of the Swan's Island Memory Project -- photos were collected from residents, scanned and are now part of the Maine Memory Network.   This is a v. cool resource.

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