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About MARVEL!

MARVEL! provides every resident of Maine 24 hour access to full text and abstracts from magazines, newspapers and reference books that are credible, reputable resources. The vast majority of the journals available through MARVEL! are not available for free on the web or in any other electronic format.

Accessing MARVEL!

• Accessing from home: Getting Started
• Visit your local library to use MARVEL! on a public access computer and have help from your library staff.

MARVEL! Video

The Maine Regional Library's system presents Maine's very own Tim Sample and The Marvels of MARVEL: Maine's Virtual Library.

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Length of video and audio: 22 minutes

• The Marvels of MARVEL! - [134 MB, Opens in QuickTime] *See below if need help
• The Marvels of MARVEL! [captioned] - [70 MB], opens in your browser
• Transcript
  • Transcript.rtf [Rich Text Format, 63.8 KB]
  • Timed caption text [Rich Text Format, 52.7 KB]
• Audio file [mp3, 30.3 MB] Will play in your media player or right click and download to your desktop.

Recognition

This video was developed by the Maine Regional Library System through WebJunction's Rural Library Sustainability Project, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

With thanks:

• Maine State Library Outreach Services for the captioned version
• InfoNet for the non-captioned version
• The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Tim Sample
• Molly Larson, Director of Rockport Public Library
• Jeff Dobbs Productions
• Filmed at Southwest Harbor Library, Mt. Desert Island, Maine
• Copyright: Maine State Library - Maine Regional Library System

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• *Will take sometime to download then should open in QuickTime(QT), if you have it installed. Download latest version 7.4.1 - Check version under QT help, About QuickTime. Once QT opens there is about 22 secs lead time before actually playing.
• If you have problems on a PC, right click, "Save Target as" to your desktop then double click. It should open in QuickTime if you have that multimedia program installed.

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