Create a blog posting discussing the following questions and other observations you have about Proquest. All resources can be accessed via thisalphabetical list.
1.The first 3 minutes of the short tutorial “Maine Resources in Marvel” is about the Maine Newsstand.
2. Do a basic search on something of interest to you. Report your findings and observations.
Instead of saving notes somewhere else for this search, I found that I could track my successful search by saving it. I simply created a "My Research" account and recorded notes as to the steps I took in troubleshooting my search.
Since I started in Maine Newstand, I decided to use a local topic for my search. I did, however, discover that it was quite easy to select for multiple databases, and that, in the end, it didn't seem to matter whether I started with Maine Newsstand or just ProQuest; the results were exactly the same. There is a local wind farm in Roxbury, Maine. I searched "wind power" and Roxbury to yield thorough results from our most local daily newspaper. I did not find it easy to use the Location option in the Advanced Search. It could AutoComplete for Roxbury, MA, but not Roxbury, ME when I tried to type it in using the same pattern. If anyone has any insight to this, I welcome it. I could, however, name Roxbury itself, and get very localized results.
Some features that I like in the MyResearch option are:
1.The first 3 minutes of the short tutorial “Maine Resources in Marvel” is about the Maine Newsstand.
2. Do a basic search on something of interest to you. Report your findings and observations.
Instead of saving notes somewhere else for this search, I found that I could track my successful search by saving it. I simply created a "My Research" account and recorded notes as to the steps I took in troubleshooting my search.
Since I started in Maine Newstand, I decided to use a local topic for my search. I did, however, discover that it was quite easy to select for multiple databases, and that, in the end, it didn't seem to matter whether I started with Maine Newsstand or just ProQuest; the results were exactly the same. There is a local wind farm in Roxbury, Maine. I searched "wind power" and Roxbury to yield thorough results from our most local daily newspaper. I did not find it easy to use the Location option in the Advanced Search. It could AutoComplete for Roxbury, MA, but not Roxbury, ME when I tried to type it in using the same pattern. If anyone has any insight to this, I welcome it. I could, however, name Roxbury itself, and get very localized results.
Some features that I like in the MyResearch option are:
- you can merge searches
- you can prioritize or re-order them
- you could re-visit the same search, then change databases, and compare the success of those results.
- I really like that you can search within your results list using the search box at the bottom of that list.
- It is very easy to adjust the date range limiter. I simply selected the chart column for a particular year's span and the results were adjusted immediately. Very helpful!
- I was curious to see that you could select for Figures and Charts Only in a results list. Unfortunately, the infamous USA Today charts are not included, as far as I could see. (I was trying to help our Statistics teacher find USA Today election results.....worked pretty well to use Google Images after learning how to create that search in a recent PowerSearch webinar!)
3. Save this search to perform again or create an alert which will let you know when something new is added that fits your search criteria.
Regarding the same search, I noticed that the RSS Alert that I created, included results for Roxbury, (MA), so I would welcome a solution to that dilemma.
Regarding the same search, I noticed that the RSS Alert that I created, included results for Roxbury, (MA), so I would welcome a solution to that dilemma.
4. See what your Invitational cohort is discovering. Choose at least one other Invitational blog, read that person’s post (about this or a previous lesson), and comment on it. You may like to check each others blogs throughout the Invitational as you learn together.
4. This is Maine Library Snapshot Week which makes it the perfect opportunity to report how many patrons/users/members you have helped find the information they need using this or any other MARVEL resource. Blog about an experience you had showing a patron how to use MARVEL.
I helped one of our Freshmen Social Studies teachers perform a search for news articles at certain reading levels in Points of View. In targeting world issues for this class, it has been a challenge to help them understand some complicated texts on various Middle Eastern topics. He had better success there. Those classes will be visiting with me starting this coming week, so that we can work through the use of various news sources together, to help them find readable articles that will be useful for their assignment.
I helped one of our Freshmen Social Studies teachers perform a search for news articles at certain reading levels in Points of View. In targeting world issues for this class, it has been a challenge to help them understand some complicated texts on various Middle Eastern topics. He had better success there. Those classes will be visiting with me starting this coming week, so that we can work through the use of various news sources together, to help them find readable articles that will be useful for their assignment.