Marvel week # 6 The long confusing assignment.

Discovery Exercise: 
In your blog, post your findings and observations regarding the following:


1. Do a search for available information on FM radio. Pay attention to the types of sources found.


I did a search for FM radio on Ebsco Host. I got information about multiple output receivers and microstructures. I have no idea what this is or how to use the information.

I  searched the options and I found that I could set preference on how I wanted to search.

I search via images and got totally different set of information. I got 29 pages of photos of radio host personalities from Kathy Hart to  Howard Stern!

2. Look for the visual search option and try it. Does it make searching easier or harder?

As a visual learner I think I would like this option.

EconLit contains economic literature including accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, and urban economics.

Discovery Exercise:
In your blog post your findings and observations regarding the following:
1. Complete a search to find resources for small business owners.


I did a search of small business owners in Maine . I got 77 articles about all sorts of business and the economic climate in Maine.

2. Complete a search for items that pertain to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and small businesses.


I was able to listen to and article on Business Survival In Rural American- A three State Study. It was really interesting and it was neat to be able to listen to it. I wonder if I could download the audio of an article to listen on an Ipod . I can see if someone was doing research that at times it would be helpful to listen to an article. I also like the all the different option that are available to search by.

3.Complete a search for items that pertain to tax policy and small businesses.

I looked at an article on V.A.T. tax and how would small business owners fare. It was actually a bunch of graphs. I thought is would have more information on how the V.A.T. tax would work like it does in Ireland.

Regional Business News is a collection of news information from all over the world. Information provided by these sources covers business, political, economic and other diverse, international news events. This resource contains the most recent 30 days of information from each of these wire sources. Several hundred articles are added to the Regional Business News database each day.

Since one of the reasons that I had a tough time with this blog post is that on Wednesday  I found out that my son was shipping out to the Persian Gulf to work on a Maersk oil tanker.

I did a search of the International Company Maersk. I found tons of information on the huge company and their oil findings. It was interesting that  could choose what language I wanted to read the article in.

Discovery Exercise: 
In your blog, post your findings and observations regarding the following:


1. Pick a nationally known company. Search under the company’s name and look at the results.

Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream is the company I chose to search. I found out that  they were bought by the Target Corp and they were going to try some new flavors to upscale their premium ice cream flavors.


2. Narrow the regional search to something more appropriate for this area of the country.
3. Choose a Maine company to see what information is available about either the company or its industry.

The Maine Wild Blueberry Company is what I chose to search. I did not find a lot of information here,I am wondering if I was looking in the right place as I think there should be a considerable amount of information on this company. I did find that owner of the Maine Wild Blueberry was born in Cario Egypt. I also found out that there a quite a bit of restrictions  on the article due to it orgionating from the New York Times.

There are two Value Line formats available through MARVEL. Value Line Investment Survey for public libraries provides independent investment information, analyzing over 1,700 stocks. The Rating & Reports section details the history, current status, and projected performance of individual stocks. It covers the current three months, updated weekly on Friday afternoons. (Note: Many of Value Line’s products are listed on their site, but not accessible under this license. They are indicated by a gray lock.) The number of users at a time is 6 for the entire state so you may have to try several times to access this resource.  If you have no luck after a couple of attempts, just indicated that in your blog.

Unless you have a good background in business or stocks, much of the information contained in Value Line may look like Greek to you. The goal of this exercise is not to understand the information contained in the reports, but to be able to navigate through the database to help a patron find the information they are looking for.

Value Line Research Center for academic libraries covers stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks. This is available only to academic libraries and is also restricted to 6 concurrent users.

Discovery Exercise: 
In your blog, post your findings and observations regarding the following:
1. Look at the current issue of Value Line. Explore the various links for the “Investment Survey,” which is the primary tool available to public library users. Start with “Description,” which gives a good description of the site.
2. Look at the various reports offered: Ratings and Reports, Selection and Opinion, Summary and Index, etc. Familiarize yourself with the information contained in each report and how they differ.


3. Pick a well-known stock such as Starbucks, General Motors, Apple, etc., and do a company search using either the general search box at the top of the page or “company look up.” Familiarize yourself with the type of information provided by linking to the various tabs at the top of the report.

The stock I will research is Maersk. I could not figure out how to get to the Value Line to begin my search. I did find out some other information about the company.

I do want to be able to do this search , I think it would be valuable to have an understanding of how to do this. I will ask our school Librarian to help me figure this out.

This was a crazy week for me as our oldest son just took off for his first job! He is working on an oil tanker in the Persian Gulf for the next three months! SO off to Dubai he went.!