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MARVEL! Maine's Virtual LibraryResources

MARVEL!, Maine's virtual library, provides every resident of Maine with access to a collection of full text and abstracts from magazines, newspapers and reference books that are credible, reputable resources.

Please use any resource related to MARVEL! here for your students and patrons. Feel to add your school or public library contact information and copy what you want.

Check out MARVEL! graphics for web, print, and computer desktops and related brochures.

Handouts from MARVEL training

All in Word so you can adapt for your own patrons. Some files (pdf) requires the free Adobe Reader or Word. If you don't have Word, you may use the Word Viewer. Go to Academic Search Premier, clicked on "Help" and print the information for:
  • Visual Search  (look under Searching)
  • Saving Searches  (look under Saving Searches & Alerts)
  • Saving a Search as an Alert   (look under Saving Searches & Alerts)

Other documents for staff and patron training

Accessing MARVEL!

How To's

Public Relations

Posters and Bookmarks

Sample Teaching Materials

  • Winter Wonderland Scavenger Hunt, (HTML, 11.2 KB) - Testing your research skills using MARVEL! Other formats available from web page
  • Explore KIDS! resources (HTML, 14.1 KB)- worksheet for students developed by Pam Goucher at Freeport Middle School, other formats available from web page which allows fast viewing!
  • Explore More MARVEL! Resources (HTML, 14. 1 KB) - another worksheet for students developed by Pam Goucher at Freeport Middle School, other formats available from web page

Adding MARVEL! icon to the desktop

Yes, you may put a link anywhere you like with certain requirements:

Location:

  • Your website
  • An icon on computer desktops in your building
  • Email signatures

Requirements:

  • MARVEL! is for use within Maine only.
  • MARVEL! link must only be to the MARVEL! home page ( http://www.maine.gov/marvel ) and not directly to any of the individual databases themselves.
  • Use only the copyright @ icon, available in different sizes: MARVEL! Maine's Virtual Library(100 x 39 pixels)
  • Icons below. (This MARVEL! logo was created by a New Century Grant)

Directions to add icon to a web page:

  1. To save MARVEL! for your web page or computer desktop, right click on it or control-click and then choose "Save Picture As" or "Save Image as" to your computer. Navigate to a location on your computer to save this image. It's best to save your images in an image folder inside your web site folder.
  2. Please follow the directions for your web editor since "inserting an image" can be different for software.
  3. General: Align cursor where you want the image placed.
  4. Select the "Insert" or "Insert Image".
  5. Browse to the location on your computer where you saved the MARVEL! image and select it.
  6. Be sure to upload this image to your web server so the image will show. Web browser do link to this image for displaying.
  7. Add alternative or "alt" text for any image on your web pages. "ALT" text makes information about the image available to visually-impaired users. Follow directions for ALT for your web editor or add alt="MARVEL! logo" or alt="MARVEL! Maine's Virtual Library" within the image tag of the HTML code.To use MARVEL! as a link, choose the image and follow the directions of your web editor.
  8. Need to remove the blue border around "MARVEL!" image when it is a link? Set the image tag attribute border to zero. Example: <a href="http://www.maine.gov/marvel"><img src="marvel3.gif" alt="MARVEL! logo" border="0"> </a>.

3. MARVEL! Graphics

  • Web graphics
    • MARVEL! Maine's Virtual Libraryalt="Marvel, Maine's Virtual Library width="100" height="39"
    • Marvel, Maine's Virtual Libraryalt="Marvel, Maine's Virtual Library" width="150" height="58"
    • MARVEL! Maine's Virtual Libraryalt="Marvel, Maine's Virtual Library" width="195" height="75"
  • Print graphics-Slow to download, Large files, if you want the MARVEL! graphic in "eps or "psd" format, please contact the MSL webmaster for a zipped file