These weeks of the MARVELous Maine Invitational really flew by. I enjoyed taking the time to get to know some of the many resources available through MARVEL. I think one of my biggest discoveries was that MARVEL has such great access to investment information - unfortunately that's also one of the resources I and my patrons are likely to use the least!! I knew about NoveList and the Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center and the encyclopedia and some of the other resources before but feel more comfortable with them now and much more likely to mention them to patrons.
As a result of this exercise, I will definitely be using MARVEL more and telling more of my patrons about it. I am in hopes of putting together a little brochure about the library to give to people when they get a library card and a mention of Marvel will be a must to include in it. I also plan to mention the various resources on the library's Facebook page and on our webpage. If I can find the time, I would also love to do short newspaper articles occasionally as well to highlight different areas of MARVEL. If only it was possible to add a few extra hours to each day!!!!! It's easy to have the "want to" but much more difficult to have the "time to."
Thank you Mamie, Stephanie, and Valerie for putting this together. I enjoyed the experience and learned a lot in the process. Now if I could just win the iPad it would be the icing on the cake!!
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