This lesson is about Maine Newstand which I have never used. I do mention the Proquest Newspapers (general) database to med students and new providers because they are coming to Bangor from other parts of the country and I think that maybe they might want to read their local newspaper while they are here. I also use it as an opportunity to point out MARVEL as a resource.
I did a basic search on Alan White (my husband) because he had a book published this past summer and there have been a few local events and I wondered if any newspapers had picked them up. The search pulled up 2899 items, 99% of which were what we in the info business call "false drops," nothing to do with my Alan White. The problem was that I needed to be able to do a phrase search. So I went into the search tips and discovered that I should search "Alan White." That worked much better. But there are quite a few Alan Whites (a number of whom appear to be criminals) and no mention of the book. I did another search on Hosmer Pond in Camden (of interest to me) and saved it. I discovered that articles can easily be translated into other languages. Also, when you click for the entire article you get full-text, not pdf which is often not good enough for patrons, at least in my setting. I don't see any way to search for images. I tried searching Eastern Maine Medical Center strike and looking for images and couldn't find any and I know there were several in the BDN. I must be doing something wrong.
I haven't had any occasion to show patrons how to use MARVEL this week. But, if any of the consultants should read this, I want to say that I think the tutorials on the MSL website are great! I talked about them at our staff meeting this week and sent out the link to all my staff.
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