Week 11 Wrap Up

Sunday December 9,2012

The MARVELous Maine Invitational is drawing to a close! The weeks have sped by for us, and we have appreciated your comments. Your blog posts indicate your fulfillment of the Invitational’s goal of exploring the resources in MARVEL and thinking of ways to use them.

Keep the excitement of the Invitational going!
• Use the tutorials on the Maine State Library website for trainings or as a reference. Print or e-mail them for patrons or students.  If you create your own electronic guides for any of the resources in Marvel!, let us know so we can link to them from the Marvel! homepage.  Libraries are all about sharing – why reinvent the wheel if another library has developed a great training tool?
• Learn more about the resources with webinars and face-to-face training opportunities listed on our training calendar.
• Finally, explore resources the Invitational didn’t cover. MARVEL gives you access to Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts which covers all things libraries. You can also access WorldCat, OCLC’s huge bibliographic database. There’s also Literary Reference Center which is a full-text database that provides information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time frames.

Discovery Exercise

1.  What was your biggest discovery?

2. How will you promote or use the resources with your patrons, colleagues or students?

Congratulations!

You have completed the Invitational.  Please contact us when you’ve made your last blog entry.  When we’ve evaluated your blog, we’ll send you a link to the post-Invitational survey.  When you’ve completed the survey,  you will be directed to your CE certificate and your name will be entered in the drawing for the iPad.

Keep spreading the word about the electronic resources!

Thank You! for participating and making the Invitational a huge success!

The MARVELous Maine Invitational is modeled after many self-guided learning programs available. We modified the South Dakota Library Challenge: Electronic Resources Edition to encourage librarians to explore and discover the subscription electronic resources.  We thank Jane Healy and Julie Erickson of the South Dakota State Library for allowing us to use their materials in our program.  Jane and Julie modeled their program after the “23 things” program developed by Helene Blowers of the Columbus Metropolitan Library and formerly of the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County . Her program, Learning 2.0, was also a blog that taught PLCMC staff members about web 2.0 tools. The Learning 2.0 model is being used in libraries all over the U.S. and around the world to encourage lifelong learning among library staff. Take a look at the original Learning 2.0 blog.

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