This week I watched the tutorial "Maine Resources in Marvel". My search was on Cynthia Dill, with my interest being what's the latest from her campaign. The basic search for Cynthia Dill brought up 890 results, with the first item being from 2005. The results were ranked by relevance. Detailed view showed me 20 items at a time, with CD hilited whenever used in the text. But I wanted the latest news, so I was able to sort by Pub date, with most recent first, giving me a current item. Another search for Cynthia Dill and finances retrieved 116 hits and when I further defined the search to include ad campaign, I got 37 hits. Some of these were not as relevant to CD, but did cover ad campaigns and finances of all the candidates which was relevant to my interest in how her finances for ad campaigns stack up to the other candidates.

I created an alert for this topic and could definetly see SMCC students using this also, especially in a current event or political science class. Agai, I don't think they would create a workspace just for newspapers, as they need to cite a variety of sources. As a instructor, however, I could see using it.

IN PQ Newsstand, I see that other standalone newspapers are Christian Science Monitor, NYT, Maine, WSJ, and Washingtom Post. These are also included in a general PQ Newsstand search.

I have not shown anyone how to use Marvel specifically, as we usually direct students to Ebsco or Proquest which are listed seperately on SMCC's list under Find Articles. Mostly, when a student asks for last's week NYT, I would then direct them to use PQ. Especially if they are trying to photocopy and have to make all those crazy folds to get it on the machine....

I wonder if there are any other academic libarians participating in Marvelous Maine? I think our needs are different from other libraries. I will try to find someone to comment with.