Duration: 30 Minutes
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we're going to be exploring gale literature
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lit finder. My name is Amber Winters
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and I'm your Gail training consultant for the day
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So I have a quick agenda here for everyone. So first
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I want to briefly talk about the content and
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the tools that you're going to find within gay literature
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lit finder kind of just the basics
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of what you can expect, what your users can expect,
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but we'll spend the majority of the time actually walking
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through that platform. So we're going to see some
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of the different workflows. What's great about this
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resource is there's quite a few different
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ways to get to content. So we're going to take
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a look at all of those today and we'll also explore
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some of the different tools that are going to help enhance
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your your learners researching
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And then at the very end of the session, I do have
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some wrap up information. I have some contact information
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for you.
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I have included questions there at the end, but
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feel free if you do have questions as we move
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through the session, go ahead and put them into the Q
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and a as you think of them. I'll try to answer them
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as we move forward. If for whatever
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reason I can't answer them as we're going through the session today,
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just stay on until the end of the end of the
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time and I'll make sure everything gets answered for
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you. So let's go ahead and dive
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in. So gale literature lit finder is
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a really expansive resource that's
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covering literature from around the world
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and throughout history. So not just current
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literature, but literature thinking
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all the way back. So we have over 100
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and 30,000 full text poems.
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I will pause here to say the Majority
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of the information we have on this resource
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is going to be full text,
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bits of content. So poems, also
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short stories and novels. We have over 11,000
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full text over 4000
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essays. We also include a a fair
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amount of speeches that I think sometimes get a little
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bit lost when you're thinking. about
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gay literature finder. You're thinking kind of strict
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literature, bits of information. But we
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have a huge select collection of
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speeches available as well. We also
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have full text plays over 1300
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and much more. We have things like biographies
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about the authors. We have a little bit of multimedia
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content, so like images and things like that.
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as well as some different work overviews. So
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in addition to these kind of primary sources that
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we have these full text literary
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literary works. We also have
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some secondary content that's going to help your
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users really get engaged with the information.
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And in addition to all of that great content,
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we also have some really nice tools that's going
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to help increase accessibility,
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things like our translation feature, our
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highlights and notes feature, we can edit
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the text and kind of manipulate it a little
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bit to make sure everyone can access the information
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how they need to. And we also have some
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great saving features, things like integrated
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at Google and Microsoft one drive. So
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we're going to take a look at all of those tools today.
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But those are just some of the few things that are going to make
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this platform really beneficial for
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your users.
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and as I mentioned, there's a lot of different ways to
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access content within this resource. Of
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course we always include our basic
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search, which is a fairly powerful search
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but in addition to that we also have a person
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search. So if your users have someone
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specific in mind, they can certainly type that into
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our person search or maybe they just have a set of
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parameters. Maybe they're just looking
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for native american authors, maybe they're just
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looking for female authors. they'll
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be able to search that and limit that within
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our person search to pull that content
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just like a person search. We also have our
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works search. So if they have a work in
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mind that they want to take a look at, they can do
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that, or maybe they're looking just for works within a specific
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genre, they can enter in the genre or
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maybe they're just interested in poems. They want to see
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all of the poems we have available within
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gay literature that finder,
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they can narrow it down just to seeing all of our poems
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as well. So again, another way to access
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our content that makes it really clean and simple
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for them.
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and finally we do have our topic finder, which
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is one of my favorite tools. If
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you've been within the majority of our Gail resources,
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you've probably seen topic finder. We do include
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it here within Gail literature lip finder as well
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and that's going to give us a visual clickable
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graphic that's going
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to show you different search results for a user. So
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they need a more visual look and if they want
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to see different connections between
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topics and between search terms, they'll
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be able to take a look at our topic finder and pull some
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great content
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So again, quite a few different ways to access
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content. We're going to take a look at all of them today
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since we have the time for it.
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So let's just go ahead and jump right
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in as I switch over to
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the platform. Does anyone have any
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questions for me?
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Ok? I don't see any. So let's go
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ahead and get started then. So this is the home page
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of Gil literature lip finder. This is what your
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users are going to see immediately upon entering.
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I will point out just a few different bits of information
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that might be helpful for them. So of course,
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of course at the very top we have our basic
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search which we're going to run through first,
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but down below on our home page we can also
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launch directly into the topic finder if
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we want to.
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And we also have a term frequency tool.
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So if they want to explore the frequency
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of a specific term being utilized throughout
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history, they can do that. They can also compare
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different terms as well. They can enter in more than one.
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So we do have that available for
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some advanced analysis of information.
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addition to that on the home page,
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you'll also see in this little white bar here.
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We have a link to our person search
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and our work search. These are both also
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found under advanced search but we've pulled
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them right here on the home page just because we feel
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they're a really valuable asset for your users to
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see kind of as soon as they get onto the platform,
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In addition to that we have our get link
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tool, you'll see this little icon here,
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this link, this is going to provide a persistent
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URL to whatever page your users are on
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and you'll notice as we start to click through this resource,
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this get link button pretty much follows us along
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the entire time. So as your users
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are maybe searching and finding a really nice
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search results page that they want to say if they can get
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a link to that if they find a nice
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play that they want to hold on to, they
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can get a link to it that way. they'll
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be able to link throughout the session
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and kind of share that out where they want to
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go. They can save it for themselves or they can send it to colleagues.
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I believe we have a fair amount of K 12 folks
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on the line. they can share
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with their peers or if it's a teacher pulling content
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maybe for their class for a lesson, that
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teacher can share this link to them as well. So
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this get link feature is pretty powerful,
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and again, you're going to see it
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almost every step of the way as we click through
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this resource today,
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But let's just start off with a basic search so we can
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kind of see how our results are organized.
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I'm just gonna search today for robert Frost
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Fairly popular search within this platform.
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So let's go ahead and search it out on our search
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results page. I want to point out, you'll see
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where it says, showing results in this little gray toolbar.
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It always defaults to showing primary
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sources and literary works first
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because that's really the point of these resources
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for them to find the literature. So we've pulled
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that forward so they're always going to start off with that.
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But you'll see in addition to that. We also, as I mentioned,
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have some biographies, some topic
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and work overviews to give a little bit of context
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to whatever your your users are going to be reading.
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And you see for for us we also have a little
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bit of multimedia content.
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so a lot of times, those are podcasts that
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might mention or include the individual
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or the work that you're looking at. you
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we have a couple of those here as well
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On those right hand side, this is
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where you're going to find our filtering options. So
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we have a lot of works from Robert Frost,
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you'll see 349 here. So
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oftentimes it's beneficial
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to kind of filter this down here. So you'll see if we can
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filter down by subjects,
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by the name of the work. If we have that, we
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can filter down that way. the document
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type, all that good stuff,
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we can filter down right here
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and I do default to showing full text documents
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only. We do have a fair amount of poetry citations
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and other citations. So I do prefer
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to limit to full text but they can choose full
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text or if they want to see the citations,
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they can choose that as well.
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right underneath this again, you'll see our topic
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finder and our term frequency have been included
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here on this page as well.
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So before I click into a document, let's just take
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a look at what this topic finder is going to look like.
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So if I
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decided to run my search a topic finder
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instead of running it through my basic search
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This is what I'm going to see.
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It's a nice visual here. So instead of getting just that
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list of texts, I can point and click
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through this so we can see, wow, robert Frost
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um deals a lot with new England. Let's click on this
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and it's going to pull us forward to the second step
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of information.
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So let's see house.
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Ok, so now they've narrowed down their content
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to seven bits of content here as opposed to that
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300. And what was it? 49 I believe
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entries, they've narrowed it down now to the seven
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so they can go through and they can click into any of
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these, they think is important and start to read through.
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So this is another great feature to access the content.
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They can reset this at any point down here underneath
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this.
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and start to kind of click through other things as well.
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So they have that option here,
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in addition to this tile visualization
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which is a default, there's also
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a wheel visualization so it gives a little
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bit excuse me, a
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more organized look, they'll be able to kind of
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click through this way. So they both provide
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the same information. Just two different views for
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your users for whatever they prefer
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But let's go back to our basic search results page.
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we can scroll down a little bit. Let's see,
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let's click on one here, we'll click
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on some of the wave
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Now, they may in this piece of content here
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You see as I scroll down, it gives me a little bit about
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this work. So it's given me just a quick background
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before I actually read through this poem
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here.
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You'll see sometimes there will be related subjects
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listed on this right hand side. If they are,
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they'll always appear here under this nice
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explore panel.
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In addition to this, we have quite a few different tools
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that can help your users as well. So
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First off, if we have any K 12 folks online.
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I know we do and if we have many academic folks
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we do include full citations for everything
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we have within this resource. So you'll see
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here, we have a citation right here at the very
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bottom of the, of the um poem.
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We have M L A A P a Chicago or Harvard
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versions. You'll see they can send
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that citation over to wherever they need
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it to go or they can copy and paste it.
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we also include that citation right
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here in our toolbar.
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when I click on this button, it provides the same information,
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it just provides it in a second area.
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So if they maybe don't see it at the bottom of
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the page, they'll see it up top here.
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I will point out we also have a biography
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attached to this poem here as well. So if you
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really read the poem, if they want to know
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more about the author, they can click here and they'll
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be pulled to a bi biography about
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robert cross
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Now, if your users find this content helpful,
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maybe they want to save it for later. If you're in a public
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library situation, maybe they find
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that someone want to share it with a book
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club or a literature club that they're a part of or maybe
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they want to share it with a friend or a colleague
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or whomever they can do that in quite a few different
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ways so they can use the send to button
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up top here.
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This is going to let them send over to their drives,
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either google or one drive or they
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can email it to themselves or others to save
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for later
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They can also download a print this if they prefer
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to have a hard copy or have it just saved
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on their desktop. They have the ability
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here, it does download as a Pdf for them.
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and again we have our amazing get link
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button here. I'm slightly biased, but I really
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enjoy this. again it's persistent,
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so it's not going to break. So even you
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as a librarian or a teacher or
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professor, whoever you are on the line today, if
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you find a bit of content, you think it is really beneficial.
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You can copy it, paste it in a
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discussion post, put it on your L
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MS, put it on your library social
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media site. what's great is your users
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will be able to click into this
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and they'll see this piece of content without authenticating.
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You don't need to worry about sharing something
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out and then trying to share out, you know, this is how you get your password,
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this is how you sign in. If if they don't know how to do that
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yet, they automatically see this content.
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If they decide then that they want to move forward
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in this resource. So maybe they want to read
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more poem poems by robert
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Frost,
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they'll be asked to authenticate at that point. But
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when you use that get link they'll always have access
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to this one specific page. So that's a really powerful
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tool to make sure they can access whatever
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content you find for them.
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And all of those tools are also found down here.
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You'll see I have my google drive
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and my one drive icons as well as
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my email download and print. And these
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are going to do the same thing as these tools.
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But again we've added just a little bit of redundancy
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to make sure it's really simple for users
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to find the tools
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So in addition to these excellent tools,
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we have some great kind of text manipulation
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tools that are going to increase the accessibility for
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your users. So you see the first one
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I have here is my translate button right here under
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the solid black line here,
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I have my translate so I can translate my article.
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You'll see here in quite a few different languages.
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and I can also set my interface language
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which is going to change all of the navigation
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and all of the tools to whatever language I chose.
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So let's do that. Ok, so we can just quickly take
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a look. So I'll choose spanish here
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There we go. So you see now all of my tools
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are in spanish my search bar here.
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All of my tools here, my explore
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panel. And this is going to follow
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your users throughout the session so they can
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change this at the very beginning of their
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research and have it follow along
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throughout their entire time on the platform.
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and now I can change it back. Either by hitting the
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translate button here or
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I can go up to the top here where it says spanish.
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and I can change it back to life.
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So we have that listed there
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in addition to that, we can increase or decrease
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the font size
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So if you have individuals who are visually impaired
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who need that larger text, they have
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the ability to enhance that here
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right next to. We also have some additional
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more advanced display option choices.
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So they'll be able to choose if they want a background
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color behind the text, they
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could choose different fonts. We do have a dyslexia
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font available? That's helpful. Most likely going
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to be helpful for a lot of your users and
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they can also change the line, letter and word spacing.
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so they're really going to be able to access this
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content, how they need to, they can really
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manipulate this to make it
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Perfect for that. Perfect for how they see
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things,
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and when they do edit their display options
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using that display options button that will
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follow them along as well,
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so they'll get that different view as they're clicking
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through different articles or different works
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and things like that.
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Finally, right next to the display options,
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we have our listen tool which is going to
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do just that. It's going to let your users listen
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to this content. What's great is if they hit this listen
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button, I'm not going to play it today, but
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when they hit this it pops up this nice
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little feature here.
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and they can hit this little settings gear
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and they can even edit how this is being
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read to them. So it defaults to highlighting
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text that's being read. If your users find
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that may be a little bit distracting, they just want
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to listen to it, they can turn highlighting off,
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they can choose what's being highlighted, what color,
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highlighting. They can also choose to
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increase the tax visibility as it's
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reading through. So this is really trying
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to help all users of all learning
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styles of all levels to be able to
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access this content. Really simply another
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great feature is the reading speed,
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they can slow it down
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so they can really customize to get the
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most out of this information here,
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right next to that settings option. I will mention,
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they can also download this. So if they want to
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take it with them, maybe they don't have the time to
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listen to it.
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as they're sitting at their computer, they can
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download it and listen to it when they want to
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And one final tool I want to mention before we
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take a look at our person
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and work searches is to highlight
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the notes tool. So this I personally
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think is great for really any user, K-12
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academic public library user.
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if they find a bit of information they think is
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important or maybe a piece of
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text that they think is really moving and they just they
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want to highlight that they want to keep it for later.
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They can they can drag over whatever piece they
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think is important. They can add some notes
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if they want to.
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And of course the notes, their notes will be much better
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than mine. they can choose a highlight color.
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So let's say blue here and then they can save
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it and they can highlight as much as they want through
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fashion
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and they can take a look at it later. So these
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are all session based these highlights and notes. So
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once they sign off the platform
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or they close out of their browser or they're
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signed up due to inactivity, all of
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these highlights and notes are gone. So make sure
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if you're directing them to use these highlights and notes
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feature that they get the information
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out of the platform before they sign off, they
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can do that by sending over to their drives,
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they can download, they can print, they can email, it's going
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to keep the highlights for them. They'll be able
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to use that later
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All of our highlights and notes are also kept
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in a second location. If you'll take a look
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at my toolbar on top here,
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you'll see this highlights and notes button has a little two
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next to it.
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When I click into this, it's showing me what's been
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highlighted.
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and I can click view all highlights and notes, which I'm
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going to do here.
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So now it's showing me exactly
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what I highlighted the highlight color as well as
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any notes I took. And you'll notice
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I also have a direct URL back to that piece
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of content here
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and underneath. I have a bibliography. So
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as I start highlighting more resources,
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more pieces of content within this platform
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They're all going to aggregate right here on this
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highlights and notes pages. So I'll have that full
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bibliography and then I'll have everything
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listed up top here. So this is really
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nice for your
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researchers who may be running a research project because
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they can copy and paste all of these
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citations from right here on this page.
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and they can send this particular page over
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to their drives. You'll see I have my sent two options
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still here
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or they can download or print this.
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And this is a really nice way to stay organized
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as well because they won't have to send three different
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articles over to their drives. Let's say they
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can send this one page and then if
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they want to take a look back at that article,
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they are gonna have that hyperlink here so
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they can click into the hyperlink off this page and
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be pulled right back into the platform to take a look
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at that piece of content,
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now. I want to take a look at those two other
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pathways to finding content, our person in our work
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search before I do, I'll pause
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for questions, I haven't seen any come in but
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I do want to just stop here quickly. Does anyone have
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any questions before we move forward?
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Hm
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Ok. I don't see any. So let's go ahead
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and take a look at our person and our works search
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now. Remember they were on the home page
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for users but they're also listed under the advanced
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search. So instead of clicking back to the home
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page, I'm just going to select advanced search here
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next to my search bar.
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And now when you pull that up here you'll see. I have a few
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different search options. So I have
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my person search my work search and I also have
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the topic finder listed here as well, so they
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can access topic finder through the advanced
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search. But let's
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just take a look at person search first.
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So you see at the very top they can just enter
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a name if they know a name that they want to take a look
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at. This is also great if maybe they
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have part of a name and they don't
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quite remember what the author's name is or what the
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the poet's name is. if they have
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part of a name, let's say they're looking for Maya
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Angelou. But all they can think is Maya,
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They can just put that in here. They can search it
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and we're going to pull forward any mayo we have available.
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So they'll see Angela up top here and they may say,
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yeah, that's exactly who I'm looking for.
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They can click in and find content related to
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her clicking
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back here
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get rid of this. They can also go down
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and narrow down based on different parameters. So
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again, I default to showing full text
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documents. Not so much interested right
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now in seeing citations or abstracts or anything
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like that. I've narrowed it down here.
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You'll see, I can narrow it down based on ethnicity
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or gender nationality, literary
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movements. So if I just want to see content related
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to one specific movement, I can pop
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that right in there. Same for a
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and I can also enter in occupation.
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So if I'm looking specifically for
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let say politicians
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may have been looking for speeches, I can put in
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politician to see what pops up. Of course I can also
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put a poet or author and pull content
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that way
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So in addition to that person search, we have
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our work search which functions really
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the same. We have some different parameters available
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but it does function pretty much the same. They can
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search up here or they
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can scroll down one really powerful
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tool I like is to narrow down by type
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of work. So this is going to show everything
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we have related to that type. So I'm actually going
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to narrow it down to speeches today so
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we can take a look at that because again, I think sometimes
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that's just a little bit missed in this resource
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just because generally we're thinking about poems
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and short stories and things like that. So you'll see
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one of our types listed here is speech
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I'm going to select that. if I wanted
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to, I could put in an author or I
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get a movement or things like that. I don't want to, I just
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want to take a look at all of the speeches we have available.
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I'm going to run my search here
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There we go. So now you'll see all of
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our works listed here.
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and I can just start to scroll down and select
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anything that I think is interesting here.
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When I do that. Let's click um we'll
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just click into this one
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When I click into that now you'll see. It's going to pull me
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forward to that one piece of content.
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if we have two entries about that
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content for whatever reason, they'll see both. But
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you'll see. I can click into this here
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and now, just like we had before with that poem,
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we have just a little bit of information
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about the work itself. And then
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underneath we'll find the full text of
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that work. So again, this is a speech.
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with citation. I might add.
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Oftentimes it's difficult to
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cite a speech so we do include
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that citation here. they'll be able
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to pull that as needed
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You know, we've got about eight minutes left in
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our session today. So I do have some wrap up information.
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I want to give you before we're before we
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sign off. But again, anyone with any
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questions if you want to take a closer look at something
[00:22:06.680]
that I didn't hit on, put
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that into the Q. And A. Now for me. And we can certainly
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do that. But while you're typing questions,
[00:22:13.097]
if you have any, I wanna give you some contact
[00:22:15.847]
information. So if you want to talk about this resource
[00:22:18.077]
a little bit, bit more. Or maybe you want to talk
[00:22:20.097]
about best practices or how you can
[00:22:22.298]
promote it out to your students or to
[00:22:24.367]
your patrons. You have a customer success
[00:22:26.689]
manager who can help you out with that. If you
[00:22:28.759]
don't know who yours is, if you haven't spoken to them
[00:22:30.798]
yet, send an email to gil at customer success
[00:22:33.347]
at dot com, we're going to forward
[00:22:35.489]
you to the correct individual. You can schedule with them
[00:22:37.709]
and really go through anything you need to be successful
[00:22:39.910]
with this resource.
[00:22:41.827]
if you don't currently have access to this resource,
[00:22:43.930]
but you're interested,
[00:22:45.058]
you can reach out to your sales consultant. If you don't
[00:22:47.269]
know who that is, you can go to support dot
[00:22:49.587]
com forward slash rep finder,
[00:22:51.617]
you'll put in your information and you'll be able to
[00:22:53.689]
find the correct individual to reach out to.
[00:22:56.587]
we also have premade content
[00:22:58.739]
available for you on our support site which
[00:23:00.778]
is support degale dot com. This
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webinar will be posted there after the session
[00:23:04.847]
today. We also have other recorded webinars
[00:23:06.857]
and shorter tutorials. We do
[00:23:08.930]
also include things like lesson plans,
[00:23:11.288]
um activities, bookmarks,
[00:23:14.308]
tips sheets, resource guides, flyers.
[00:23:16.439]
The list goes on. So if you're planning on doing anything
[00:23:18.910]
with your Gail resources planning and promoting
[00:23:20.930]
or getting them into the classroom or whatever you want to do.
[00:23:23.538]
Take a look at the support site before you do because
[00:23:25.630]
we may have something pre created and ready to go for
[00:23:27.680]
you. So again, that is support dot Gail
[00:23:29.837]
dot com
[00:23:31.288]
And finally, if you have the time today,
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I would love for you to take our session survey.
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I've put it here attached to a QR code.
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If you have your phone handy, you can scan that.
[00:23:40.347]
if not it is going to populate in your
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browser once we sign off for the day it was
[00:23:44.400]
attached to the zoom when you opened it. Or
[00:23:46.509]
you can just type in bit dot forward slash
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gil training
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eval. You'll be able to answer it there as well.
[00:23:53.837]
and I haven't seen any questions come through at all.
[00:23:56.239]
So it looks like we're not going to have any. if
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you think of some later, you can feel free to email
[00:24:00.857]
me. you'll get my email at tomorrow
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as you get the recording, you can feel free to to
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respond to that.
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Otherwise hopefully we'll see you in sessions
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in the future about some of your other gala resources.
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Please enjoy the rest of your day
we're going to be exploring gale literature
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lit finder. My name is Amber Winters
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and I'm your Gail training consultant for the day
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So I have a quick agenda here for everyone. So first
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I want to briefly talk about the content and
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the tools that you're going to find within gay literature
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lit finder kind of just the basics
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of what you can expect, what your users can expect,
[00:00:24.940]
but we'll spend the majority of the time actually walking
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through that platform. So we're going to see some
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of the different workflows. What's great about this
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resource is there's quite a few different
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ways to get to content. So we're going to take
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a look at all of those today and we'll also explore
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some of the different tools that are going to help enhance
[00:00:39.868]
your your learners researching
[00:00:42.109]
And then at the very end of the session, I do have
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some wrap up information. I have some contact information
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for you.
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I have included questions there at the end, but
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feel free if you do have questions as we move
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through the session, go ahead and put them into the Q
[00:00:54.189]
and a as you think of them. I'll try to answer them
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as we move forward. If for whatever
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reason I can't answer them as we're going through the session today,
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just stay on until the end of the end of the
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time and I'll make sure everything gets answered for
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you. So let's go ahead and dive
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in. So gale literature lit finder is
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a really expansive resource that's
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covering literature from around the world
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and throughout history. So not just current
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literature, but literature thinking
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all the way back. So we have over 100
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and 30,000 full text poems.
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I will pause here to say the Majority
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of the information we have on this resource
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is going to be full text,
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bits of content. So poems, also
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short stories and novels. We have over 11,000
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full text over 4000
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essays. We also include a a fair
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amount of speeches that I think sometimes get a little
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bit lost when you're thinking. about
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gay literature finder. You're thinking kind of strict
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literature, bits of information. But we
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have a huge select collection of
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speeches available as well. We also
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have full text plays over 1300
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and much more. We have things like biographies
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about the authors. We have a little bit of multimedia
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content, so like images and things like that.
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as well as some different work overviews. So
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in addition to these kind of primary sources that
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we have these full text literary
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literary works. We also have
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some secondary content that's going to help your
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users really get engaged with the information.
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And in addition to all of that great content,
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we also have some really nice tools that's going
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to help increase accessibility,
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things like our translation feature, our
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highlights and notes feature, we can edit
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the text and kind of manipulate it a little
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bit to make sure everyone can access the information
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how they need to. And we also have some
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great saving features, things like integrated
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at Google and Microsoft one drive. So
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we're going to take a look at all of those tools today.
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But those are just some of the few things that are going to make
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this platform really beneficial for
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your users.
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and as I mentioned, there's a lot of different ways to
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access content within this resource. Of
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course we always include our basic
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search, which is a fairly powerful search
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but in addition to that we also have a person
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search. So if your users have someone
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specific in mind, they can certainly type that into
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our person search or maybe they just have a set of
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parameters. Maybe they're just looking
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for native american authors, maybe they're just
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looking for female authors. they'll
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be able to search that and limit that within
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our person search to pull that content
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just like a person search. We also have our
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works search. So if they have a work in
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mind that they want to take a look at, they can do
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that, or maybe they're looking just for works within a specific
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genre, they can enter in the genre or
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maybe they're just interested in poems. They want to see
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all of the poems we have available within
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gay literature that finder,
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they can narrow it down just to seeing all of our poems
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as well. So again, another way to access
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our content that makes it really clean and simple
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for them.
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and finally we do have our topic finder, which
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is one of my favorite tools. If
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you've been within the majority of our Gail resources,
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you've probably seen topic finder. We do include
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it here within Gail literature lip finder as well
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and that's going to give us a visual clickable
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graphic that's going
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to show you different search results for a user. So
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they need a more visual look and if they want
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to see different connections between
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topics and between search terms, they'll
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be able to take a look at our topic finder and pull some
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great content
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So again, quite a few different ways to access
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content. We're going to take a look at all of them today
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since we have the time for it.
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So let's just go ahead and jump right
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in as I switch over to
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the platform. Does anyone have any
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questions for me?
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Ok? I don't see any. So let's go
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ahead and get started then. So this is the home page
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of Gil literature lip finder. This is what your
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users are going to see immediately upon entering.
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I will point out just a few different bits of information
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that might be helpful for them. So of course,
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of course at the very top we have our basic
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search which we're going to run through first,
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but down below on our home page we can also
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launch directly into the topic finder if
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we want to.
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And we also have a term frequency tool.
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So if they want to explore the frequency
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of a specific term being utilized throughout
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history, they can do that. They can also compare
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different terms as well. They can enter in more than one.
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So we do have that available for
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some advanced analysis of information.
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addition to that on the home page,
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you'll also see in this little white bar here.
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We have a link to our person search
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and our work search. These are both also
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found under advanced search but we've pulled
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them right here on the home page just because we feel
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they're a really valuable asset for your users to
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see kind of as soon as they get onto the platform,
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In addition to that we have our get link
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tool, you'll see this little icon here,
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this link, this is going to provide a persistent
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URL to whatever page your users are on
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and you'll notice as we start to click through this resource,
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this get link button pretty much follows us along
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the entire time. So as your users
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are maybe searching and finding a really nice
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search results page that they want to say if they can get
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a link to that if they find a nice
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play that they want to hold on to, they
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can get a link to it that way. they'll
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be able to link throughout the session
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and kind of share that out where they want to
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go. They can save it for themselves or they can send it to colleagues.
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I believe we have a fair amount of K 12 folks
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on the line. they can share
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with their peers or if it's a teacher pulling content
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maybe for their class for a lesson, that
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teacher can share this link to them as well. So
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this get link feature is pretty powerful,
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and again, you're going to see it
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almost every step of the way as we click through
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this resource today,
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But let's just start off with a basic search so we can
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kind of see how our results are organized.
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I'm just gonna search today for robert Frost
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Fairly popular search within this platform.
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So let's go ahead and search it out on our search
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results page. I want to point out, you'll see
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where it says, showing results in this little gray toolbar.
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It always defaults to showing primary
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sources and literary works first
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because that's really the point of these resources
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for them to find the literature. So we've pulled
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that forward so they're always going to start off with that.
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But you'll see in addition to that. We also, as I mentioned,
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have some biographies, some topic
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and work overviews to give a little bit of context
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to whatever your your users are going to be reading.
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And you see for for us we also have a little
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bit of multimedia content.
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so a lot of times, those are podcasts that
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might mention or include the individual
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or the work that you're looking at. you
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we have a couple of those here as well
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On those right hand side, this is
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where you're going to find our filtering options. So
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we have a lot of works from Robert Frost,
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you'll see 349 here. So
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oftentimes it's beneficial
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to kind of filter this down here. So you'll see if we can
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filter down by subjects,
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by the name of the work. If we have that, we
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can filter down that way. the document
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type, all that good stuff,
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we can filter down right here
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and I do default to showing full text documents
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only. We do have a fair amount of poetry citations
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and other citations. So I do prefer
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to limit to full text but they can choose full
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text or if they want to see the citations,
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they can choose that as well.
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right underneath this again, you'll see our topic
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finder and our term frequency have been included
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here on this page as well.
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So before I click into a document, let's just take
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a look at what this topic finder is going to look like.
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So if I
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decided to run my search a topic finder
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instead of running it through my basic search
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This is what I'm going to see.
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It's a nice visual here. So instead of getting just that
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list of texts, I can point and click
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through this so we can see, wow, robert Frost
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um deals a lot with new England. Let's click on this
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and it's going to pull us forward to the second step
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of information.
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So let's see house.
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Ok, so now they've narrowed down their content
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to seven bits of content here as opposed to that
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300. And what was it? 49 I believe
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entries, they've narrowed it down now to the seven
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so they can go through and they can click into any of
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these, they think is important and start to read through.
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So this is another great feature to access the content.
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They can reset this at any point down here underneath
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this.
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and start to kind of click through other things as well.
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So they have that option here,
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in addition to this tile visualization
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which is a default, there's also
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a wheel visualization so it gives a little
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bit excuse me, a
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more organized look, they'll be able to kind of
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click through this way. So they both provide
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the same information. Just two different views for
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your users for whatever they prefer
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But let's go back to our basic search results page.
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we can scroll down a little bit. Let's see,
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let's click on one here, we'll click
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on some of the wave
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Now, they may in this piece of content here
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You see as I scroll down, it gives me a little bit about
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this work. So it's given me just a quick background
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before I actually read through this poem
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here.
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You'll see sometimes there will be related subjects
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listed on this right hand side. If they are,
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they'll always appear here under this nice
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explore panel.
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In addition to this, we have quite a few different tools
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that can help your users as well. So
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First off, if we have any K 12 folks online.
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I know we do and if we have many academic folks
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we do include full citations for everything
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we have within this resource. So you'll see
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here, we have a citation right here at the very
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bottom of the, of the um poem.
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We have M L A A P a Chicago or Harvard
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versions. You'll see they can send
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that citation over to wherever they need
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it to go or they can copy and paste it.
[00:10:08.609]
we also include that citation right
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here in our toolbar.
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when I click on this button, it provides the same information,
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it just provides it in a second area.
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So if they maybe don't see it at the bottom of
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the page, they'll see it up top here.
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I will point out we also have a biography
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attached to this poem here as well. So if you
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really read the poem, if they want to know
[00:10:29.278]
more about the author, they can click here and they'll
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be pulled to a bi biography about
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robert cross
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Now, if your users find this content helpful,
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maybe they want to save it for later. If you're in a public
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library situation, maybe they find
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that someone want to share it with a book
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club or a literature club that they're a part of or maybe
[00:10:47.349]
they want to share it with a friend or a colleague
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or whomever they can do that in quite a few different
[00:10:51.989]
ways so they can use the send to button
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up top here.
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This is going to let them send over to their drives,
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either google or one drive or they
[00:11:00.918]
can email it to themselves or others to save
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for later
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They can also download a print this if they prefer
[00:11:06.668]
to have a hard copy or have it just saved
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on their desktop. They have the ability
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here, it does download as a Pdf for them.
[00:11:14.099]
and again we have our amazing get link
[00:11:16.298]
button here. I'm slightly biased, but I really
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enjoy this. again it's persistent,
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so it's not going to break. So even you
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as a librarian or a teacher or
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professor, whoever you are on the line today, if
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you find a bit of content, you think it is really beneficial.
[00:11:29.788]
You can copy it, paste it in a
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discussion post, put it on your L
[00:11:33.908]
MS, put it on your library social
[00:11:36.177]
media site. what's great is your users
[00:11:38.450]
will be able to click into this
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and they'll see this piece of content without authenticating.
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You don't need to worry about sharing something
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out and then trying to share out, you know, this is how you get your password,
[00:11:47.908]
this is how you sign in. If if they don't know how to do that
[00:11:50.057]
yet, they automatically see this content.
[00:11:52.129]
If they decide then that they want to move forward
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in this resource. So maybe they want to read
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more poem poems by robert
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Frost,
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they'll be asked to authenticate at that point. But
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when you use that get link they'll always have access
[00:12:04.590]
to this one specific page. So that's a really powerful
[00:12:07.109]
tool to make sure they can access whatever
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content you find for them.
[00:12:13.080]
And all of those tools are also found down here.
[00:12:15.639]
You'll see I have my google drive
[00:12:17.879]
and my one drive icons as well as
[00:12:19.889]
my email download and print. And these
[00:12:22.139]
are going to do the same thing as these tools.
[00:12:24.807]
But again we've added just a little bit of redundancy
[00:12:27.099]
to make sure it's really simple for users
[00:12:29.399]
to find the tools
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So in addition to these excellent tools,
[00:12:34.500]
we have some great kind of text manipulation
[00:12:36.570]
tools that are going to increase the accessibility for
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your users. So you see the first one
[00:12:40.700]
I have here is my translate button right here under
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the solid black line here,
[00:12:45.599]
I have my translate so I can translate my article.
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You'll see here in quite a few different languages.
[00:12:50.979]
and I can also set my interface language
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which is going to change all of the navigation
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and all of the tools to whatever language I chose.
[00:12:58.057]
So let's do that. Ok, so we can just quickly take
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a look. So I'll choose spanish here
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There we go. So you see now all of my tools
[00:13:05.599]
are in spanish my search bar here.
[00:13:07.969]
All of my tools here, my explore
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panel. And this is going to follow
[00:13:12.408]
your users throughout the session so they can
[00:13:14.440]
change this at the very beginning of their
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research and have it follow along
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throughout their entire time on the platform.
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and now I can change it back. Either by hitting the
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translate button here or
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I can go up to the top here where it says spanish.
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and I can change it back to life.
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So we have that listed there
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in addition to that, we can increase or decrease
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the font size
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So if you have individuals who are visually impaired
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who need that larger text, they have
[00:13:45.269]
the ability to enhance that here
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right next to. We also have some additional
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more advanced display option choices.
[00:13:52.168]
So they'll be able to choose if they want a background
[00:13:54.399]
color behind the text, they
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could choose different fonts. We do have a dyslexia
[00:13:58.807]
font available? That's helpful. Most likely going
[00:14:00.960]
to be helpful for a lot of your users and
[00:14:03.000]
they can also change the line, letter and word spacing.
[00:14:05.820]
so they're really going to be able to access this
[00:14:07.940]
content, how they need to, they can really
[00:14:09.969]
manipulate this to make it
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Perfect for that. Perfect for how they see
[00:14:15.000]
things,
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and when they do edit their display options
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using that display options button that will
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follow them along as well,
[00:14:22.778]
so they'll get that different view as they're clicking
[00:14:24.899]
through different articles or different works
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and things like that.
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Finally, right next to the display options,
[00:14:31.509]
we have our listen tool which is going to
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do just that. It's going to let your users listen
[00:14:36.177]
to this content. What's great is if they hit this listen
[00:14:38.479]
button, I'm not going to play it today, but
[00:14:40.668]
when they hit this it pops up this nice
[00:14:42.677]
little feature here.
[00:14:44.349]
and they can hit this little settings gear
[00:14:46.840]
and they can even edit how this is being
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read to them. So it defaults to highlighting
[00:14:51.450]
text that's being read. If your users find
[00:14:53.570]
that may be a little bit distracting, they just want
[00:14:55.590]
to listen to it, they can turn highlighting off,
[00:14:58.259]
they can choose what's being highlighted, what color,
[00:15:00.690]
highlighting. They can also choose to
[00:15:02.840]
increase the tax visibility as it's
[00:15:04.879]
reading through. So this is really trying
[00:15:07.000]
to help all users of all learning
[00:15:09.070]
styles of all levels to be able to
[00:15:11.119]
access this content. Really simply another
[00:15:13.479]
great feature is the reading speed,
[00:15:15.609]
they can slow it down
[00:15:18.129]
so they can really customize to get the
[00:15:20.200]
most out of this information here,
[00:15:25.330]
right next to that settings option. I will mention,
[00:15:27.369]
they can also download this. So if they want to
[00:15:29.408]
take it with them, maybe they don't have the time to
[00:15:31.418]
listen to it.
[00:15:32.557]
as they're sitting at their computer, they can
[00:15:34.629]
download it and listen to it when they want to
[00:15:40.009]
And one final tool I want to mention before we
[00:15:42.099]
take a look at our person
[00:15:44.298]
and work searches is to highlight
[00:15:46.580]
the notes tool. So this I personally
[00:15:49.048]
think is great for really any user, K-12
[00:15:52.019]
academic public library user.
[00:15:54.710]
if they find a bit of information they think is
[00:15:56.798]
important or maybe a piece of
[00:15:58.889]
text that they think is really moving and they just they
[00:16:00.960]
want to highlight that they want to keep it for later.
[00:16:03.349]
They can they can drag over whatever piece they
[00:16:05.369]
think is important. They can add some notes
[00:16:07.408]
if they want to.
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And of course the notes, their notes will be much better
[00:16:12.288]
than mine. they can choose a highlight color.
[00:16:14.519]
So let's say blue here and then they can save
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it and they can highlight as much as they want through
[00:16:18.677]
fashion
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and they can take a look at it later. So these
[00:16:25.969]
are all session based these highlights and notes. So
[00:16:28.359]
once they sign off the platform
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or they close out of their browser or they're
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signed up due to inactivity, all of
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these highlights and notes are gone. So make sure
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if you're directing them to use these highlights and notes
[00:16:38.869]
feature that they get the information
[00:16:41.080]
out of the platform before they sign off, they
[00:16:43.177]
can do that by sending over to their drives,
[00:16:45.359]
they can download, they can print, they can email, it's going
[00:16:47.538]
to keep the highlights for them. They'll be able
[00:16:49.599]
to use that later
[00:16:51.599]
All of our highlights and notes are also kept
[00:16:53.690]
in a second location. If you'll take a look
[00:16:55.769]
at my toolbar on top here,
[00:16:57.710]
you'll see this highlights and notes button has a little two
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next to it.
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When I click into this, it's showing me what's been
[00:17:03.028]
highlighted.
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and I can click view all highlights and notes, which I'm
[00:17:06.538]
going to do here.
[00:17:09.000]
So now it's showing me exactly
[00:17:11.229]
what I highlighted the highlight color as well as
[00:17:13.269]
any notes I took. And you'll notice
[00:17:15.509]
I also have a direct URL back to that piece
[00:17:17.739]
of content here
[00:17:19.180]
and underneath. I have a bibliography. So
[00:17:21.250]
as I start highlighting more resources,
[00:17:23.630]
more pieces of content within this platform
[00:17:25.989]
They're all going to aggregate right here on this
[00:17:28.000]
highlights and notes pages. So I'll have that full
[00:17:30.337]
bibliography and then I'll have everything
[00:17:32.430]
listed up top here. So this is really
[00:17:34.577]
nice for your
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researchers who may be running a research project because
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they can copy and paste all of these
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citations from right here on this page.
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and they can send this particular page over
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to their drives. You'll see I have my sent two options
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still here
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or they can download or print this.
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And this is a really nice way to stay organized
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as well because they won't have to send three different
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articles over to their drives. Let's say they
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can send this one page and then if
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they want to take a look back at that article,
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they are gonna have that hyperlink here so
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they can click into the hyperlink off this page and
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be pulled right back into the platform to take a look
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at that piece of content,
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now. I want to take a look at those two other
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pathways to finding content, our person in our work
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search before I do, I'll pause
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for questions, I haven't seen any come in but
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I do want to just stop here quickly. Does anyone have
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any questions before we move forward?
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Hm
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Ok. I don't see any. So let's go ahead
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and take a look at our person and our works search
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now. Remember they were on the home page
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for users but they're also listed under the advanced
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search. So instead of clicking back to the home
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page, I'm just going to select advanced search here
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next to my search bar.
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And now when you pull that up here you'll see. I have a few
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different search options. So I have
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my person search my work search and I also have
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the topic finder listed here as well, so they
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can access topic finder through the advanced
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search. But let's
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just take a look at person search first.
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So you see at the very top they can just enter
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a name if they know a name that they want to take a look
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at. This is also great if maybe they
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have part of a name and they don't
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quite remember what the author's name is or what the
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the poet's name is. if they have
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part of a name, let's say they're looking for Maya
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Angelou. But all they can think is Maya,
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They can just put that in here. They can search it
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and we're going to pull forward any mayo we have available.
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So they'll see Angela up top here and they may say,
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yeah, that's exactly who I'm looking for.
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They can click in and find content related to
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her clicking
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back here
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get rid of this. They can also go down
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and narrow down based on different parameters. So
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again, I default to showing full text
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documents. Not so much interested right
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now in seeing citations or abstracts or anything
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like that. I've narrowed it down here.
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You'll see, I can narrow it down based on ethnicity
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or gender nationality, literary
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movements. So if I just want to see content related
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to one specific movement, I can pop
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that right in there. Same for a
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and I can also enter in occupation.
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So if I'm looking specifically for
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let say politicians
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may have been looking for speeches, I can put in
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politician to see what pops up. Of course I can also
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put a poet or author and pull content
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that way
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So in addition to that person search, we have
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our work search which functions really
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the same. We have some different parameters available
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but it does function pretty much the same. They can
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search up here or they
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can scroll down one really powerful
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tool I like is to narrow down by type
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of work. So this is going to show everything
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we have related to that type. So I'm actually going
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to narrow it down to speeches today so
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we can take a look at that because again, I think sometimes
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that's just a little bit missed in this resource
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just because generally we're thinking about poems
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and short stories and things like that. So you'll see
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one of our types listed here is speech
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I'm going to select that. if I wanted
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to, I could put in an author or I
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get a movement or things like that. I don't want to, I just
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want to take a look at all of the speeches we have available.
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I'm going to run my search here
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There we go. So now you'll see all of
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our works listed here.
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and I can just start to scroll down and select
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anything that I think is interesting here.
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When I do that. Let's click um we'll
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just click into this one
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When I click into that now you'll see. It's going to pull me
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forward to that one piece of content.
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if we have two entries about that
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content for whatever reason, they'll see both. But
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you'll see. I can click into this here
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and now, just like we had before with that poem,
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we have just a little bit of information
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about the work itself. And then
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underneath we'll find the full text of
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that work. So again, this is a speech.
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with citation. I might add.
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Oftentimes it's difficult to
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cite a speech so we do include
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that citation here. they'll be able
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to pull that as needed
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You know, we've got about eight minutes left in
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our session today. So I do have some wrap up information.
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I want to give you before we're before we
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sign off. But again, anyone with any
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questions if you want to take a closer look at something
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that I didn't hit on, put
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that into the Q. And A. Now for me. And we can certainly
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do that. But while you're typing questions,
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if you have any, I wanna give you some contact
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information. So if you want to talk about this resource
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a little bit, bit more. Or maybe you want to talk
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about best practices or how you can
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promote it out to your students or to
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your patrons. You have a customer success
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manager who can help you out with that. If you
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don't know who yours is, if you haven't spoken to them
[00:22:30.798]
yet, send an email to gil at customer success
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at dot com, we're going to forward
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you to the correct individual. You can schedule with them
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and really go through anything you need to be successful
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with this resource.
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if you don't currently have access to this resource,
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but you're interested,
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you can reach out to your sales consultant. If you don't
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know who that is, you can go to support dot
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com forward slash rep finder,
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you'll put in your information and you'll be able to
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find the correct individual to reach out to.
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we also have premade content
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available for you on our support site which
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is support degale dot com. This
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webinar will be posted there after the session
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today. We also have other recorded webinars
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and shorter tutorials. We do
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also include things like lesson plans,
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um activities, bookmarks,
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tips sheets, resource guides, flyers.
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The list goes on. So if you're planning on doing anything
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with your Gail resources planning and promoting
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or getting them into the classroom or whatever you want to do.
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Take a look at the support site before you do because
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we may have something pre created and ready to go for
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you. So again, that is support dot Gail
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dot com
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And finally, if you have the time today,
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I would love for you to take our session survey.
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I've put it here attached to a QR code.
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If you have your phone handy, you can scan that.
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if not it is going to populate in your
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browser once we sign off for the day it was
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attached to the zoom when you opened it. Or
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you can just type in bit dot forward slash
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gil training
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eval. You'll be able to answer it there as well.
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and I haven't seen any questions come through at all.
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So it looks like we're not going to have any. if
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you think of some later, you can feel free to email
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me. you'll get my email at tomorrow
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as you get the recording, you can feel free to to
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respond to that.
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Otherwise hopefully we'll see you in sessions
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in the future about some of your other gala resources.
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Please enjoy the rest of your day