Duration: 30 Minutes
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Hello folks and welcome. I'm Stacey Knibloe, your Gale trainer for Maine.
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I'm glad you could join me for our Enhancing Readers Advisory and Book Club Support with Gale Literature Resource Center in Gale Books and Authors.
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Sorry folks, that title is a mouthful, but it sums it up well. So we're also joined by Beth Crist from the state library.
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Hello, Beth.
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Hello, I just wanted to say a quick welcome to everyone. Thank you for coming and we hope this will be a great session and thank you Stacy very much.
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Of course, happy to do it. I, was regretting and making it only 30 min as I was finding all my examples for the session.
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So this is such a fun topic. I'm going to show you excited to show off what the resources can do for you.
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Alrighty, so let's dive in. So I have a pretty brief agenda. Because I like you all to guide the session with your questions and the things you want to see.
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So we're going to start out using books and authors to find what to read next and then take a look at the research center to engage a bit more with what you read.
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And then as always we will wrap up with Gale support, how you can get in touch with us with any questions.
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That may come up for you after. So I'm going to go off video here. Just wanted to come on and say hello at the start, but I don't want my video screen to block anything that's happening on your screen.
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So I'm going to go ahead and stop that. And we'll start out with just a couple of slides.
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We really want to get into the resources themselves. So, Gale Books and Authors is our readers advisory database.
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It is full of recommended breeding from a genre experts, actually some authors themselves. And what they do is put together a, you know, basically about a one paragraph summary of the work to kind of intrigue the reader and Point them to great fiction and nonfiction books for children, young and adults.
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And we have a lot of fun ways to search in this resource, but also just to browse around, maybe find a new author, in your book, or maybe we're, looking for that, maybe want something in a new genre or maybe something in a specific genre.
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We're going to see there's a fun way to browse that. So there are also lots of great lists in the resource.
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Some directly from libraries. So I want to share those as well. But this resource is based on a print series we've, published a deal called.
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What do I read next? So that's what Gale books and authors, strive to answer.
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So what do I read next? And I've got a little fun back for you there. It recommends a hundred 14 books with an elephant as a main character.
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So I’ll show you how you can discover books like that in our searches. So let's go ahead and take a look.
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So you can jump right in from the digital main library web page. I'm, taking advantage of one of the new Gail pages.
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We've created for main public libraries and school libraries. And grouped under our literature collection, we're going to find books and authors.
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We're also going to find a literature resource center which will be checking out in a few minutes. But because I'm not there with you in Maine and these pages do use that great geo authentication, so there's less barriers to access.
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I'm coming to you from Western New York outside of Buffalo. Still bummed about bills lost last night but soldiering on I’ve gone ahead and jumped into our resources using a different method since I can't take advantage of that G off medication.
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So here's the homepage of Gale books and authors and really right off the bat were recommending books, something new or recently updated.
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And then we usually provide a couple book lists, some sort of theme to honor the month or in or something like that.
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So looking to celebrate family reunions is out of Thanksgiving and honoring a Native American heritage. Ma.
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So these will change usually around the beginning of the month. And I love having all these book covers in the collection.
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You really, you know, that's often what's going to draw folks to a book so you can kind of dive in.
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And get those descriptions and maybe find some Rita likes it's more info about the book really easily from the homepage but those covers I think are initially what really draw folks in so something looks good to you want to know more about it.
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But of course you can come in here with a much more targeted need as well. So let's say someone has come to you.
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They've read the court of thorns and roses series they're looking for something else they're waiting for that next book and in the meantime they want to find something else to read.
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So this series has kind of been blowing up on book talk and all over the place. So let's see what we can find here.
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So when you search on a title, it's going to, of course, look at all of our book titles, but then we also keep series records in these collections as well.
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And actually let me I'm just going to make things a little bit bigger here on your end of the webinar so you can see things a little clear.
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So we've got both the summary for the first book in the series, but then also the series record itself.
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They get tagged with a little series note here and you can actually look for it. If I use the search box I can isolate and search by series name too, but title, of course, picked it up for us.
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And when you jump into a series record, there is always going to be a paragraph or so about it as well.
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And what I love about these paragraphs is there enough to get you intrigued. We don't just take the book description.
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Or you know the description that's on the book flat. This is something written by our subject and genre experts.
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So they don't reveal the ending of a book it's just enough to get you kind of interested in then in a series record we are going to of course list the works in that theory in that series, pardon me.
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And even sometimes you'll find real likes for that series as well down below. But all of these are hyperlinked.
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If I go into the first book in the series. We've got the reluctance listed below.
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And again, this is where I love having the cover so you can kind of maybe get a sense of a books maybe a little more fantasy related, maybe more modern.
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Kind of get an indicator maybe. You know, the audience, the ring level, of the work just by glancing at the covers.
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We also have our about this book section, which will link out into finding more for that genre. Can of course get to the series record, the different subjects, the settings.
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All of these are hyperlinks so that if you select It will take you to a list of books.
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Or look at some other ways to browse though too. Also shows you list that appeared on so we've got this on our librarians favorites list Omaha Picks Beauty and the Beast.
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So if we want to find some recommended works from librarians, these lists are really great. I'm going to show you how to find these later.
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So the book record is really handy again can help you find something new. We've got reviews linked here as well.
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So you can hear from some published reviews. These are coming out of our periodical resources. You can find out more of what these experts thought as well.
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And you can always send this off to someone if you use the and send this out via email, print it out, and kind of keep track of the works they're interested in.
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So the book descriptions good place to get started when you're looking for something that you've liked and want to find something else like it.
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Those real likes are really handy. You can also come at it from an author point of view and that search field if I open up the Dropbox here I can search by author.
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And let's say we've got The eighth grader who's really liked what they've read by Jason Reynolds, they want to read some more.
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When you search by author, it's going to go out and find the recommended books. And they sort in newest order so we can see the most recently published.
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We can change that. We typically keep books in here. We do weed a bit, but we like to keep the older books too.
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For me, that's always a benefit. Remembering being in the library because maybe they're more likely to be available and on the shelf.
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But you've got this list. To work from and again just going to find those handy.
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Plot description so you can jump in and decide if that works for you. The other thing you'll find that's kind of nice for the authors is You'll see when you're in a book record, their name is a hyperlink.
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If you click, You get a great bio for that author. This is coming from our contemporary authors.
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A print series that we published. So I get all these details about Jason Reynolds. See the list of awards.
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He's one, of course his works. And then the Sidelights portion that were narrative. Bit of the biography.
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Great way to learn more about a favorite author or an offer you don't know much about. So when you kind of know what you're after, the search is a really good place to start, but you may have noticed when we landed on the home page.
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We've got those list of our kind of monthly, topic book lists, but if you look over to the left, there's a way to browse by genre.
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So we kind of treat this as almost a bookshelf. If I go into mystery fiction, it's going to find all the mystery titles available and recommend. I apologize.
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I when I say available, I want to be clear. We don't have the full text of works of books here.
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It's you know the summary so I should probably use different terminology there, but this is a recommended list of mystery novels and you'll see use my little annotation tool here to call it out.
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The top of every search result and at the top of every browse there's the ability to look for books and at a particular audience because again this resource as it stands is recommending books for children, young Adel and adults.
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So if we go ahead and take a advantage of that limiter. So let me get rid of this, circle so I can actually,
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Click again. Maybe I'm looking for maybe I've got a team who is just, you know, loves mysteries.
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I can just remove the recommendations for adults and for children. And isolate down to the young adult titles.
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And again, can browse those covers. These are put in reverse chronological order from when they were published.
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So again, we're getting the newest books first. As you scroll, you can always, again, can always change that.
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And when you find something looks good, again, same path that we've seen before, just jump right into that book description.
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There you can also get more specific with these genre lists. Again, if we look over in that left-hand panel, once I selected Mystery Fix, or sorry, yes, mystery fiction, it then allows me to filter into different types of stories.
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So if I like mysteries but what I really like are cozy mysteries and actually let me go ahead and change this up.
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I’ll actually make this for myself. I love Cozy Mystery. So I'm going to switch my looking for books aimed at adults and choose cozy mystery from over there on the left.
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There we go. And maybe I can find a new Cozy series to, discover a new author. And so on.
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But it's really interesting to browse the story type list. So I really like a mystery, but what I like are mysteries that are also haunted house stories.
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I can find that the genres are really fun to play around this. If I go into something like historical fiction.
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You know, I can maybe isolate a certain time periods, for historical fiction. Oh, looks like we're missing a couple of covers there, but we have another topic.
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This is what I get for randomly selecting. There we go. So it's a fun way to look at you know a lot of public libraries often have you know a lot of public libraries often have you know a ministry section a science fiction, a science fiction, a fantasy section, but what I really love this for too though is for, you know, a ministry section, a science fiction, a fantasy section.
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But what I really love this for too though is for young adults for teens, you know, some school libraries are kind of genrefying their collections. Others aren't.
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There's a lot of talk about the benefits and the downfalls of it. But this can kind of do it for you.
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It gives you all of the you know the mystery titles or maybe just again isolating to mysteries that are also about vampires, right?
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So it gives them a way to discover a new title. And we also got non-fiction works recommended in this resource.
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So I think they sometimes get forgotten about, but if we go ahead and again over here and select genre, I can choose nonfiction.
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And it's going to give us some genres as well. So maybe I have someone who likes to read history, but they want the real life stuff, right?
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So these are all more narrative non fiction. They're going to be, you know, not going to be recommended reference books or things like that.
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It's going to be things people will pick up, you know, for informational or even your pleasure reading.
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So I can isolate to non-fiction history titles. And again, help them discover something new to read.
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We've got great questions. Is, the definition of some of these genres. If a painter doesn't know what makes a mystery cozy mystery, you know, I don't think we do.
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Let me just pop in to help for a minute and see. Don't think we have anything like that.
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But I just want to confirm, cause that would be a great. Suggestion for our product teams. So no, looks like.
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We list them, but we don't.
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Define them. So that's I'm going to pass that along with our product team. I think that's a great idea.
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Right. So the. Nonfiction.
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Yes, I covered what I wanted to there. So sorry, folks, keeping us on our timetable here.
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So I did want to share the book lists that are available as well. So these can be a really handy way to maybe as well.
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So these can be a really handy way to maybe put a display together in the library or help books for you, so these can be a really handy way to maybe put a display together in the library or help books for help pick books for your next book club or give suggestions and inspiration.
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On the toolbar here over to the right this toolbar that follows us throughout our time in the database what's on there can vary depending on what you're doing and we've got book lists we can jump to now and we have 3 different types.
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Award winners and these are of course going to have you know the big ones. We're going to have the new Barry the Caldecott, but then also smaller, maybe more genre-focused awards like the Hugo Awards, Bill of K Dick Award.
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Each of these will offer description of that award and then the list of books that have all won it. And if it's something we have a recommendation written up for, then you'll be able to click and find out more about that title.
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But again, need idea for a book display or even again inspiration for your book club. You want to read everything out of particular award.
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But I will say my favorite types of the list here are the other 2 expert picks and librarian favorite.
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So let me start with my very favorite here, a librarian favorites. These are lists that we have pulled from mostly public libraries in North America.
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So as you are producing, you know, maybe a pathfinder for all your favorite. Mystery writers or something like that.
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We're going out and gathering these out from libraries. And unfortunately, the list can be a little dated, but again, the way I look at that is I'm going to be more likely to be able to get a hold of, you know, the 8 copies.
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I need for my book club. So browsing through the list here you can see nail writers to keep you up at night.
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Narrative nonfiction. Serial killers, solar eclipse, you know, we have some, some really, specific lists here and others again that could be helpful for collection development and things like that.
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So really a lot of fun. And one of the things you can do is, oh no, sorry, I'm going to say that for our other search.
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So we've got all these, science fiction, sub genre lists, which are a lot of fun.
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Elves in the real world jumped out at me. Here's a list of books. Want to worry about else in the real world.
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So we always again give credit to the library and the library that created the list here. So. Lots of fun.
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The expert picks, let me just jump back to our, I kind of skipped around here on the book list.
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The expert picks are going to be lists that you might find, say, and, you know, library journal or American libraries list, things like that.
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And one of the things you can do here is search the book list. It will search the list of, the book list title, not the books within them, but the titles of the list themselves.
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So I could do something like. And search for club. Looks like we've got a best book club choices list.
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And that can give me inspiration for picking our next book. And our book club. As any of these could do, but this one specifically of course called out and book close.
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And then you need to get really specific. Let's say we've got, you know, a sixth grade boy who has to read something over the summer.
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I was in this exact situation this summer with one of my nephews. He's not a big reader.
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We wanted to find something that was suit him. He loves baseball. So if we use in advance search You can get released specific with a search.
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You can of course, you know, search on title author, all of those things here, kind of combine your searches much the same way you might need catalog.
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But what I'd like to point out is down below we call out some specific story elements. So things like location.
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If I want a book that takes place in Maine, if I want to book the takes place during the Paleolithic era.
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You've got these time periods you can pick from. And one of those is also character. And again, we can kind of give us a little bit of a search here as 0 went on baseball player.
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And search. And again, I was working with my nephews over here on the right filter, results.
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Kind of isolate that to children. He's in sixth grade, so scoop up some metal readers.
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Now it doesn't get more specific than this if there were examples. They picture books in this list.
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You know, I might not be able to take advantage of those with the sixth grade, although it depends, right?
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But here we got that whole list of books that might entreat him. Make them want to ring. So that advanced search is a great way to get really specific with the topic.
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So, it's a fun way to kind of 0 in. I like to re books their set and somewhere I'm going to visit or go on vacation too. So I love that location option.
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And you can just start typing. And it will give you the list of locations that match up. So we've got a few different ones remains here.
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I’ll just go in. So that, we go on over 800 works. So I might use those filters a little more to help narrow down, but, really great way to kind of be a little more specific with your searches instead of just browsing.
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So let me check the chat and the Q&A here, see if we've got anything else.
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Now, once you've found a book, you read it maybe with your book club or even just for your own, you know.
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Kind of satisfaction, of reading. You can also, oh, you, let me pop back to the PowerPoint per minute.
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I apologize. There's one more thing I want to share about books and authors. This is new.
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So I created a slide for it so I wouldn't forget. As we saw books and authors again does have that filter so you can isolate to children's works, young adult works and adult works.
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We've had this request from customers to actually be able to isolate the collection entirely. So that you work in say a elementary library and you want to isolate the collection so you're just working with children's books right you're not having to filter all the time and isolate out those young adult and adult tails.
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You can do that. A quick call to our tech support at, or you can reach out to your customer success manager and we can set your libraries account so that you can isolate to one or 2 of the 3 options that are available there.
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So something new we watch this. I want to say it's only been about a month. So we've had a few libraries take advantage.
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But just so you're aware, it is something you can, can set for your books and authors collection.
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And isolate it to one of those or one or 2 of those. Audience models. Okay, so after you've read your books, you've got your book clubs coming up or even just, you know, you've got people who.
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Love to read and they want to delve deeper into something they just read and loved or had a lot of questions about what they read.
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Gail Literature Resource Center is an excellent place to take that those kinds of requests. You've got over 700 portal pages that are dedicated to authors to works to genres to themes and can find literary criticism, work overviews, reviews themselves.
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Really easy to navigate. It uses our kind of popular topic page format that you find in the Gail in context resources.
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And this summer we added some full text works. So for example, you can find Frankenstein the entire work inside Yale Lecture Resource Center now and The QR code here on the screen will take you to a list of those works.
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I’ll also include that link in my follow up email that she'll I’ll get a little later today or tomorrow morning.
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So let's take a look. At Gale Literature Resource Center and dive deeper.
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Into exploring literature. So this resource, again, offers a search right off the homepage, but.
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We always have some sort of browse kind of it doesn't well I guess it doesn't matter which database you're in but for a lot of these you're going to find some sort of browse on the homepage to just have a look around.
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But what I like about it is you can also use it a bit as readers advisory. We're always recommending some popular works and well studied works on the home page.
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But then we've got these featured topic list. So if you're familiar with any of the, good titles that help make up this resource, like contemporary literary criticism and encyclopedia.
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Oh no, it's not safety of contemporary authors. And poetry criticism and those titles.
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You know often those volumes came with extra essays that were focused on a particular theme or a time period.
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And that's what we use to build this browse topic section. If we go ahead and jump in.
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You've got all these pages dedicated to these topics and that are also going to recommend featured works within those topics.
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So let's say from that homepage, I could see we have a. Dystopian is in contemporary literature.
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I can use the quick search up top to find that portal. And the related works pop over here on the right.
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So this again could be used as a little bit as a razor advisory. Again, maybe looking for something for a book club.
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And the other thing I like is they all come with this overview. So if folks are new to reading dystopias and maybe this is going to be our you know picking our book club.
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I've got this great overview to kind of get them comfortable with what that genre is. And again, I can use our send to send that to them via, Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive or you just email it out to the members.
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It's a problem for what we're about to read. And let's say we were reading the Handmaid's Tale.
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There's a dedicated portal for many works in this collection. Again, we have over 700 of these portals.
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So a lot of them are really well studied works. We get a nice overview to the title and that's really one of my favorite features and Literature Resource Center.
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A lot of folks come here specifically for the literature criticism. And we're going to spend some time there, but what I really like are the topic and work overviews.
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For me, on the first reading of a book, I may miss a few things, just trying to get to the story and see what happens.
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It's always on my second or third read that I start to pick up on things maybe I missed or discover themes and things like that with a topic and work overview it can just kind of help set in my mind a little bit more what the book was about.
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So these overviews are a good place. Even after I've read a book to kind of read through and even pick up on things I didn't notice in the work or don't remember, maybe need a little refresher in time for the book club.
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It's a good the work overviews are really valuable and I love these for students as well when they're doing, they're doing research.
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But of course those pieces of criticism are really valuable as well. So as we have our discussion about the book, this can help spark discussion.
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We can find a good piece of criticism to ask questions of the members and as you jump into a piece of criticism or really any of these entries you can Select text like you're going to copy it to create a highlight.
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Right, so maybe this is a and I'm just kind of randomly selecting here, but if there's a question I want to ask a group about.
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In the work, you know, this can help start discussion, maybe read a quote. Nice. And as I mark these up, it's keeping track of it for my session.
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But if I close out of the database, these are going to disappear. Project user privacy. We don't have people log in as themselves and keep track of these.
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It's really just there for them during their session. So you can use our print tool, download the send to again, and it will send you the article as well as all the highlights and notes that you created for it.
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I'm going to talk about another use for those in a minute too. Hmm. So lots of good stuff, lots of, of course, coverage of really, you know, serious works and well studied.
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But you can also find more popular, you know, fiction and nonfiction covered as well. For example, just, you know, having Halloween not too long ago, I did a reread of.
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Alice Hoffman and her practical magic. T, always inspiring in the fall, I feel like, so I can send a search out.
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And we found literature criticism, which you know, look through these, you know, we've got some great content here, a great way to start, start discussion.
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But one thing I was like to point out, primary sources and literary works over here in our search result.
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Well, often find works themselves or find full text poems, short stories, plays, again the full text works that are in the collection.
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But we also put things here like interviews. So as you go through, you'll see them tagged as such.
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You can also use our filter over on the right document type to limit to interviews. And isolate to those.
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And here we've got an interview with Alice Hoffman. That speaks to the work we're reading in the Oak L, right?
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So really great way to again kind of engage with the work in another way, hear from the offer themselves and to give you an idea of why you might use this.
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During the pandemic, our book couldn't get together. So what we did was find our what I did I should say is find an interview with an author of a work we were reading and then we had this discussion inside Google Drive.
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I just sent the document there and then we use their commenting feature. Yeah, hi lighting feature to have a little discussion of the book right here in this document.
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So we could do it when we had time. We, you know, all we're kind of suffering from Zoom fatigue.
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So this is a great way to jump in, discuss the book. And now we actually would have this artifact of our book discussion.
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So really fun way to. You know, reach people but also just to have your book club in a different format.
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It's hard to find time to get together. And something like this a little online book club at your timing is a nice way to kind of still get to talk about books.
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So. Lots of good ways to take advantage of those features. I did want to share something else though, so Literature Resource Center reading level wise kind of is, is maybe you've seen the results from searches here is.
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A higher reading level so if I’m working with a high school student if I’m working with an adult it's definitely where I go but like let's say I'm working with a middle schooler.
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Who is reading Fahrenheit, 4 51 for school. Looking at our results here we've got You know, 2,700 words in this article, almost 2,500 in this one.
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We can see some of the titles these are coming from might be a stretch for our middle schooler.
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So I did want to mention too there's good stuff in your Gale In Context databases for literature to at lower reading levels.
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Popped in here to Gale In Context: Middle School. And we have a section. Dedicated to literature, we can browse through.
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It's going to mention, several titles that we might read in class as well as genres and themes and the like.
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And you can jump in. And find content, for example, you save brown real dreaming for example.
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Get a nice overview of the work, find articles on its themes in construction, its historical context, the kinds of things they might be studying, but also just that might entreat them when they're reading for pleasure, you know, just let them get into their favorite books.
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A little more find again interviews with the author and things like that. So always keep those in mind in the back of your head for those younger users.
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Gail and Context Elementary does the same thing. So you can find lots of children's writers in there.
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Even illustrators. So consider those when you're working with the with the Alrighty, let me go ahead and pop back to the PowerPoint and we'll start wrapping up to get you on your way and see where we're at. We're at 4 o'clock.
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So. Always keep in mind you've got lots of great materials you can take advantage of out at our support site.
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We've created. Materials so you don't have to recreate the wheel. We've got tutorials, scavenger hunts, lots of different training materials, but then also pre promotional materials to let folks know about these resources available through your library.
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Of course, lots of good tech support. So lots of good stuff out there. We've been adding and adding to it over time.
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Have launched some really great things like our training toolkits there and since this summer so always good to check out our support site and I’ll include this link in my follow up email that you get tomorrow.
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And then of course you can always reach out to your bail team when you've got questions. And of course you've got great support there at the state library.
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So no shortage of places to go when you've got questions. You can keep up with what's happening.
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With your databases on our blog. Lots, always lots of good success stories and things there.
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And I’ll include all of this information in my follow up email that you'll receive, tomorrow.
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So don't hesitate to reach out. We love to hear feedback as well as, you know, ideas for what we could be doing better.
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So definitely reach out. We've already got one good idea for this session. I'd love to hear more.
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So. With that, I’ll go ahead and wrap up and let you all get on with the rest of your day.
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I'm going to stick around and see if any questions should come in but keep an eye out for our training calendars to look for new sessions we offer new sessions every month.
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And I can always get something good out of those. B, anything that you'd like to add before we wrap up?
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Sorry to call you out.
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No, that's okay. Thank you so much. As always, you're always so informative and, thank you so much as always. You're always so informative and, you hit the highlights really well.
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So we appreciate it. Reader is going to know what all of those genre labels are going to be so I’d love to see that included and thanks everyone for coming
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Okay. Yeah, think so. Alright, well thanks everybody for tuning in. Again, I'm going to stick around for a minute or 2, see if anything should come up.
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But thanks so much for tuning in. Have a great rest of your day.
Hello folks and welcome. I'm Stacey Knibloe, your Gale trainer for Maine.
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I'm glad you could join me for our Enhancing Readers Advisory and Book Club Support with Gale Literature Resource Center in Gale Books and Authors.
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Sorry folks, that title is a mouthful, but it sums it up well. So we're also joined by Beth Crist from the state library.
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Hello, Beth.
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Hello, I just wanted to say a quick welcome to everyone. Thank you for coming and we hope this will be a great session and thank you Stacy very much.
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Of course, happy to do it. I, was regretting and making it only 30 min as I was finding all my examples for the session.
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So this is such a fun topic. I'm going to show you excited to show off what the resources can do for you.
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Alrighty, so let's dive in. So I have a pretty brief agenda. Because I like you all to guide the session with your questions and the things you want to see.
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So we're going to start out using books and authors to find what to read next and then take a look at the research center to engage a bit more with what you read.
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And then as always we will wrap up with Gale support, how you can get in touch with us with any questions.
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That may come up for you after. So I'm going to go off video here. Just wanted to come on and say hello at the start, but I don't want my video screen to block anything that's happening on your screen.
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So I'm going to go ahead and stop that. And we'll start out with just a couple of slides.
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We really want to get into the resources themselves. So, Gale Books and Authors is our readers advisory database.
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It is full of recommended breeding from a genre experts, actually some authors themselves. And what they do is put together a, you know, basically about a one paragraph summary of the work to kind of intrigue the reader and Point them to great fiction and nonfiction books for children, young and adults.
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And we have a lot of fun ways to search in this resource, but also just to browse around, maybe find a new author, in your book, or maybe we're, looking for that, maybe want something in a new genre or maybe something in a specific genre.
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We're going to see there's a fun way to browse that. So there are also lots of great lists in the resource.
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Some directly from libraries. So I want to share those as well. But this resource is based on a print series we've, published a deal called.
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What do I read next? So that's what Gale books and authors, strive to answer.
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So what do I read next? And I've got a little fun back for you there. It recommends a hundred 14 books with an elephant as a main character.
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So I’ll show you how you can discover books like that in our searches. So let's go ahead and take a look.
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So you can jump right in from the digital main library web page. I'm, taking advantage of one of the new Gail pages.
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We've created for main public libraries and school libraries. And grouped under our literature collection, we're going to find books and authors.
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We're also going to find a literature resource center which will be checking out in a few minutes. But because I'm not there with you in Maine and these pages do use that great geo authentication, so there's less barriers to access.
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I'm coming to you from Western New York outside of Buffalo. Still bummed about bills lost last night but soldiering on I’ve gone ahead and jumped into our resources using a different method since I can't take advantage of that G off medication.
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So here's the homepage of Gale books and authors and really right off the bat were recommending books, something new or recently updated.
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And then we usually provide a couple book lists, some sort of theme to honor the month or in or something like that.
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So looking to celebrate family reunions is out of Thanksgiving and honoring a Native American heritage. Ma.
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So these will change usually around the beginning of the month. And I love having all these book covers in the collection.
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You really, you know, that's often what's going to draw folks to a book so you can kind of dive in.
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And get those descriptions and maybe find some Rita likes it's more info about the book really easily from the homepage but those covers I think are initially what really draw folks in so something looks good to you want to know more about it.
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But of course you can come in here with a much more targeted need as well. So let's say someone has come to you.
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They've read the court of thorns and roses series they're looking for something else they're waiting for that next book and in the meantime they want to find something else to read.
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So this series has kind of been blowing up on book talk and all over the place. So let's see what we can find here.
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So when you search on a title, it's going to, of course, look at all of our book titles, but then we also keep series records in these collections as well.
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And actually let me I'm just going to make things a little bit bigger here on your end of the webinar so you can see things a little clear.
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So we've got both the summary for the first book in the series, but then also the series record itself.
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They get tagged with a little series note here and you can actually look for it. If I use the search box I can isolate and search by series name too, but title, of course, picked it up for us.
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And when you jump into a series record, there is always going to be a paragraph or so about it as well.
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And what I love about these paragraphs is there enough to get you intrigued. We don't just take the book description.
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Or you know the description that's on the book flat. This is something written by our subject and genre experts.
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So they don't reveal the ending of a book it's just enough to get you kind of interested in then in a series record we are going to of course list the works in that theory in that series, pardon me.
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And even sometimes you'll find real likes for that series as well down below. But all of these are hyperlinked.
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If I go into the first book in the series. We've got the reluctance listed below.
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And again, this is where I love having the cover so you can kind of maybe get a sense of a books maybe a little more fantasy related, maybe more modern.
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Kind of get an indicator maybe. You know, the audience, the ring level, of the work just by glancing at the covers.
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We also have our about this book section, which will link out into finding more for that genre. Can of course get to the series record, the different subjects, the settings.
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All of these are hyperlinks so that if you select It will take you to a list of books.
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Or look at some other ways to browse though too. Also shows you list that appeared on so we've got this on our librarians favorites list Omaha Picks Beauty and the Beast.
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So if we want to find some recommended works from librarians, these lists are really great. I'm going to show you how to find these later.
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So the book record is really handy again can help you find something new. We've got reviews linked here as well.
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So you can hear from some published reviews. These are coming out of our periodical resources. You can find out more of what these experts thought as well.
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And you can always send this off to someone if you use the and send this out via email, print it out, and kind of keep track of the works they're interested in.
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So the book descriptions good place to get started when you're looking for something that you've liked and want to find something else like it.
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Those real likes are really handy. You can also come at it from an author point of view and that search field if I open up the Dropbox here I can search by author.
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And let's say we've got The eighth grader who's really liked what they've read by Jason Reynolds, they want to read some more.
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When you search by author, it's going to go out and find the recommended books. And they sort in newest order so we can see the most recently published.
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We can change that. We typically keep books in here. We do weed a bit, but we like to keep the older books too.
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For me, that's always a benefit. Remembering being in the library because maybe they're more likely to be available and on the shelf.
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But you've got this list. To work from and again just going to find those handy.
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Plot description so you can jump in and decide if that works for you. The other thing you'll find that's kind of nice for the authors is You'll see when you're in a book record, their name is a hyperlink.
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If you click, You get a great bio for that author. This is coming from our contemporary authors.
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A print series that we published. So I get all these details about Jason Reynolds. See the list of awards.
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He's one, of course his works. And then the Sidelights portion that were narrative. Bit of the biography.
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Great way to learn more about a favorite author or an offer you don't know much about. So when you kind of know what you're after, the search is a really good place to start, but you may have noticed when we landed on the home page.
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We've got those list of our kind of monthly, topic book lists, but if you look over to the left, there's a way to browse by genre.
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So we kind of treat this as almost a bookshelf. If I go into mystery fiction, it's going to find all the mystery titles available and recommend. I apologize.
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I when I say available, I want to be clear. We don't have the full text of works of books here.
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It's you know the summary so I should probably use different terminology there, but this is a recommended list of mystery novels and you'll see use my little annotation tool here to call it out.
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The top of every search result and at the top of every browse there's the ability to look for books and at a particular audience because again this resource as it stands is recommending books for children, young Adel and adults.
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So if we go ahead and take a advantage of that limiter. So let me get rid of this, circle so I can actually,
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Click again. Maybe I'm looking for maybe I've got a team who is just, you know, loves mysteries.
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I can just remove the recommendations for adults and for children. And isolate down to the young adult titles.
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And again, can browse those covers. These are put in reverse chronological order from when they were published.
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So again, we're getting the newest books first. As you scroll, you can always, again, can always change that.
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And when you find something looks good, again, same path that we've seen before, just jump right into that book description.
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There you can also get more specific with these genre lists. Again, if we look over in that left-hand panel, once I selected Mystery Fix, or sorry, yes, mystery fiction, it then allows me to filter into different types of stories.
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So if I like mysteries but what I really like are cozy mysteries and actually let me go ahead and change this up.
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I’ll actually make this for myself. I love Cozy Mystery. So I'm going to switch my looking for books aimed at adults and choose cozy mystery from over there on the left.
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There we go. And maybe I can find a new Cozy series to, discover a new author. And so on.
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But it's really interesting to browse the story type list. So I really like a mystery, but what I like are mysteries that are also haunted house stories.
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I can find that the genres are really fun to play around this. If I go into something like historical fiction.
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You know, I can maybe isolate a certain time periods, for historical fiction. Oh, looks like we're missing a couple of covers there, but we have another topic.
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This is what I get for randomly selecting. There we go. So it's a fun way to look at you know a lot of public libraries often have you know a lot of public libraries often have you know a ministry section a science fiction, a science fiction, a fantasy section, but what I really love this for too though is for, you know, a ministry section, a science fiction, a fantasy section.
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But what I really love this for too though is for young adults for teens, you know, some school libraries are kind of genrefying their collections. Others aren't.
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There's a lot of talk about the benefits and the downfalls of it. But this can kind of do it for you.
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It gives you all of the you know the mystery titles or maybe just again isolating to mysteries that are also about vampires, right?
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So it gives them a way to discover a new title. And we also got non-fiction works recommended in this resource.
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So I think they sometimes get forgotten about, but if we go ahead and again over here and select genre, I can choose nonfiction.
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And it's going to give us some genres as well. So maybe I have someone who likes to read history, but they want the real life stuff, right?
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So these are all more narrative non fiction. They're going to be, you know, not going to be recommended reference books or things like that.
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It's going to be things people will pick up, you know, for informational or even your pleasure reading.
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So I can isolate to non-fiction history titles. And again, help them discover something new to read.
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We've got great questions. Is, the definition of some of these genres. If a painter doesn't know what makes a mystery cozy mystery, you know, I don't think we do.
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Let me just pop in to help for a minute and see. Don't think we have anything like that.
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But I just want to confirm, cause that would be a great. Suggestion for our product teams. So no, looks like.
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We list them, but we don't.
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Define them. So that's I'm going to pass that along with our product team. I think that's a great idea.
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Right. So the. Nonfiction.
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Yes, I covered what I wanted to there. So sorry, folks, keeping us on our timetable here.
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So I did want to share the book lists that are available as well. So these can be a really handy way to maybe as well.
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So these can be a really handy way to maybe put a display together in the library or help books for you, so these can be a really handy way to maybe put a display together in the library or help books for help pick books for your next book club or give suggestions and inspiration.
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On the toolbar here over to the right this toolbar that follows us throughout our time in the database what's on there can vary depending on what you're doing and we've got book lists we can jump to now and we have 3 different types.
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Award winners and these are of course going to have you know the big ones. We're going to have the new Barry the Caldecott, but then also smaller, maybe more genre-focused awards like the Hugo Awards, Bill of K Dick Award.
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Each of these will offer description of that award and then the list of books that have all won it. And if it's something we have a recommendation written up for, then you'll be able to click and find out more about that title.
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But again, need idea for a book display or even again inspiration for your book club. You want to read everything out of particular award.
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But I will say my favorite types of the list here are the other 2 expert picks and librarian favorite.
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So let me start with my very favorite here, a librarian favorites. These are lists that we have pulled from mostly public libraries in North America.
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So as you are producing, you know, maybe a pathfinder for all your favorite. Mystery writers or something like that.
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We're going out and gathering these out from libraries. And unfortunately, the list can be a little dated, but again, the way I look at that is I'm going to be more likely to be able to get a hold of, you know, the 8 copies.
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I need for my book club. So browsing through the list here you can see nail writers to keep you up at night.
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Narrative nonfiction. Serial killers, solar eclipse, you know, we have some, some really, specific lists here and others again that could be helpful for collection development and things like that.
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So really a lot of fun. And one of the things you can do is, oh no, sorry, I'm going to say that for our other search.
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So we've got all these, science fiction, sub genre lists, which are a lot of fun.
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Elves in the real world jumped out at me. Here's a list of books. Want to worry about else in the real world.
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So we always again give credit to the library and the library that created the list here. So. Lots of fun.
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The expert picks, let me just jump back to our, I kind of skipped around here on the book list.
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The expert picks are going to be lists that you might find, say, and, you know, library journal or American libraries list, things like that.
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And one of the things you can do here is search the book list. It will search the list of, the book list title, not the books within them, but the titles of the list themselves.
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So I could do something like. And search for club. Looks like we've got a best book club choices list.
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And that can give me inspiration for picking our next book. And our book club. As any of these could do, but this one specifically of course called out and book close.
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And then you need to get really specific. Let's say we've got, you know, a sixth grade boy who has to read something over the summer.
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I was in this exact situation this summer with one of my nephews. He's not a big reader.
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We wanted to find something that was suit him. He loves baseball. So if we use in advance search You can get released specific with a search.
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You can of course, you know, search on title author, all of those things here, kind of combine your searches much the same way you might need catalog.
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But what I'd like to point out is down below we call out some specific story elements. So things like location.
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If I want a book that takes place in Maine, if I want to book the takes place during the Paleolithic era.
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You've got these time periods you can pick from. And one of those is also character. And again, we can kind of give us a little bit of a search here as 0 went on baseball player.
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And search. And again, I was working with my nephews over here on the right filter, results.
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Kind of isolate that to children. He's in sixth grade, so scoop up some metal readers.
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Now it doesn't get more specific than this if there were examples. They picture books in this list.
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You know, I might not be able to take advantage of those with the sixth grade, although it depends, right?
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But here we got that whole list of books that might entreat him. Make them want to ring. So that advanced search is a great way to get really specific with the topic.
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So, it's a fun way to kind of 0 in. I like to re books their set and somewhere I'm going to visit or go on vacation too. So I love that location option.
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And you can just start typing. And it will give you the list of locations that match up. So we've got a few different ones remains here.
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I’ll just go in. So that, we go on over 800 works. So I might use those filters a little more to help narrow down, but, really great way to kind of be a little more specific with your searches instead of just browsing.
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So let me check the chat and the Q&A here, see if we've got anything else.
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Now, once you've found a book, you read it maybe with your book club or even just for your own, you know.
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Kind of satisfaction, of reading. You can also, oh, you, let me pop back to the PowerPoint per minute.
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I apologize. There's one more thing I want to share about books and authors. This is new.
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So I created a slide for it so I wouldn't forget. As we saw books and authors again does have that filter so you can isolate to children's works, young adult works and adult works.
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We've had this request from customers to actually be able to isolate the collection entirely. So that you work in say a elementary library and you want to isolate the collection so you're just working with children's books right you're not having to filter all the time and isolate out those young adult and adult tails.
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You can do that. A quick call to our tech support at, or you can reach out to your customer success manager and we can set your libraries account so that you can isolate to one or 2 of the 3 options that are available there.
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So something new we watch this. I want to say it's only been about a month. So we've had a few libraries take advantage.
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But just so you're aware, it is something you can, can set for your books and authors collection.
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And isolate it to one of those or one or 2 of those. Audience models. Okay, so after you've read your books, you've got your book clubs coming up or even just, you know, you've got people who.
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Love to read and they want to delve deeper into something they just read and loved or had a lot of questions about what they read.
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Gail Literature Resource Center is an excellent place to take that those kinds of requests. You've got over 700 portal pages that are dedicated to authors to works to genres to themes and can find literary criticism, work overviews, reviews themselves.
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Really easy to navigate. It uses our kind of popular topic page format that you find in the Gail in context resources.
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And this summer we added some full text works. So for example, you can find Frankenstein the entire work inside Yale Lecture Resource Center now and The QR code here on the screen will take you to a list of those works.
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I’ll also include that link in my follow up email that she'll I’ll get a little later today or tomorrow morning.
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So let's take a look. At Gale Literature Resource Center and dive deeper.
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Into exploring literature. So this resource, again, offers a search right off the homepage, but.
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We always have some sort of browse kind of it doesn't well I guess it doesn't matter which database you're in but for a lot of these you're going to find some sort of browse on the homepage to just have a look around.
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But what I like about it is you can also use it a bit as readers advisory. We're always recommending some popular works and well studied works on the home page.
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But then we've got these featured topic list. So if you're familiar with any of the, good titles that help make up this resource, like contemporary literary criticism and encyclopedia.
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Oh no, it's not safety of contemporary authors. And poetry criticism and those titles.
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You know often those volumes came with extra essays that were focused on a particular theme or a time period.
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And that's what we use to build this browse topic section. If we go ahead and jump in.
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You've got all these pages dedicated to these topics and that are also going to recommend featured works within those topics.
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So let's say from that homepage, I could see we have a. Dystopian is in contemporary literature.
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I can use the quick search up top to find that portal. And the related works pop over here on the right.
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So this again could be used as a little bit as a razor advisory. Again, maybe looking for something for a book club.
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And the other thing I like is they all come with this overview. So if folks are new to reading dystopias and maybe this is going to be our you know picking our book club.
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I've got this great overview to kind of get them comfortable with what that genre is. And again, I can use our send to send that to them via, Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive or you just email it out to the members.
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It's a problem for what we're about to read. And let's say we were reading the Handmaid's Tale.
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There's a dedicated portal for many works in this collection. Again, we have over 700 of these portals.
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So a lot of them are really well studied works. We get a nice overview to the title and that's really one of my favorite features and Literature Resource Center.
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A lot of folks come here specifically for the literature criticism. And we're going to spend some time there, but what I really like are the topic and work overviews.
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For me, on the first reading of a book, I may miss a few things, just trying to get to the story and see what happens.
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It's always on my second or third read that I start to pick up on things maybe I missed or discover themes and things like that with a topic and work overview it can just kind of help set in my mind a little bit more what the book was about.
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So these overviews are a good place. Even after I've read a book to kind of read through and even pick up on things I didn't notice in the work or don't remember, maybe need a little refresher in time for the book club.
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It's a good the work overviews are really valuable and I love these for students as well when they're doing, they're doing research.
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But of course those pieces of criticism are really valuable as well. So as we have our discussion about the book, this can help spark discussion.
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We can find a good piece of criticism to ask questions of the members and as you jump into a piece of criticism or really any of these entries you can Select text like you're going to copy it to create a highlight.
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Right, so maybe this is a and I'm just kind of randomly selecting here, but if there's a question I want to ask a group about.
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In the work, you know, this can help start discussion, maybe read a quote. Nice. And as I mark these up, it's keeping track of it for my session.
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But if I close out of the database, these are going to disappear. Project user privacy. We don't have people log in as themselves and keep track of these.
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It's really just there for them during their session. So you can use our print tool, download the send to again, and it will send you the article as well as all the highlights and notes that you created for it.
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I'm going to talk about another use for those in a minute too. Hmm. So lots of good stuff, lots of, of course, coverage of really, you know, serious works and well studied.
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But you can also find more popular, you know, fiction and nonfiction covered as well. For example, just, you know, having Halloween not too long ago, I did a reread of.
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Alice Hoffman and her practical magic. T, always inspiring in the fall, I feel like, so I can send a search out.
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And we found literature criticism, which you know, look through these, you know, we've got some great content here, a great way to start, start discussion.
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But one thing I was like to point out, primary sources and literary works over here in our search result.
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Well, often find works themselves or find full text poems, short stories, plays, again the full text works that are in the collection.
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But we also put things here like interviews. So as you go through, you'll see them tagged as such.
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You can also use our filter over on the right document type to limit to interviews. And isolate to those.
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And here we've got an interview with Alice Hoffman. That speaks to the work we're reading in the Oak L, right?
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So really great way to again kind of engage with the work in another way, hear from the offer themselves and to give you an idea of why you might use this.
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During the pandemic, our book couldn't get together. So what we did was find our what I did I should say is find an interview with an author of a work we were reading and then we had this discussion inside Google Drive.
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I just sent the document there and then we use their commenting feature. Yeah, hi lighting feature to have a little discussion of the book right here in this document.
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So we could do it when we had time. We, you know, all we're kind of suffering from Zoom fatigue.
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So this is a great way to jump in, discuss the book. And now we actually would have this artifact of our book discussion.
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So really fun way to. You know, reach people but also just to have your book club in a different format.
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It's hard to find time to get together. And something like this a little online book club at your timing is a nice way to kind of still get to talk about books.
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So. Lots of good ways to take advantage of those features. I did want to share something else though, so Literature Resource Center reading level wise kind of is, is maybe you've seen the results from searches here is.
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A higher reading level so if I’m working with a high school student if I’m working with an adult it's definitely where I go but like let's say I'm working with a middle schooler.
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Who is reading Fahrenheit, 4 51 for school. Looking at our results here we've got You know, 2,700 words in this article, almost 2,500 in this one.
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We can see some of the titles these are coming from might be a stretch for our middle schooler.
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So I did want to mention too there's good stuff in your Gale In Context databases for literature to at lower reading levels.
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Popped in here to Gale In Context: Middle School. And we have a section. Dedicated to literature, we can browse through.
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It's going to mention, several titles that we might read in class as well as genres and themes and the like.
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And you can jump in. And find content, for example, you save brown real dreaming for example.
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Get a nice overview of the work, find articles on its themes in construction, its historical context, the kinds of things they might be studying, but also just that might entreat them when they're reading for pleasure, you know, just let them get into their favorite books.
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A little more find again interviews with the author and things like that. So always keep those in mind in the back of your head for those younger users.
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Gail and Context Elementary does the same thing. So you can find lots of children's writers in there.
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Even illustrators. So consider those when you're working with the with the Alrighty, let me go ahead and pop back to the PowerPoint and we'll start wrapping up to get you on your way and see where we're at. We're at 4 o'clock.
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So. Always keep in mind you've got lots of great materials you can take advantage of out at our support site.
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We've created. Materials so you don't have to recreate the wheel. We've got tutorials, scavenger hunts, lots of different training materials, but then also pre promotional materials to let folks know about these resources available through your library.
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Of course, lots of good tech support. So lots of good stuff out there. We've been adding and adding to it over time.
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Have launched some really great things like our training toolkits there and since this summer so always good to check out our support site and I’ll include this link in my follow up email that you get tomorrow.
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And then of course you can always reach out to your bail team when you've got questions. And of course you've got great support there at the state library.
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So no shortage of places to go when you've got questions. You can keep up with what's happening.
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With your databases on our blog. Lots, always lots of good success stories and things there.
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And I’ll include all of this information in my follow up email that you'll receive, tomorrow.
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So don't hesitate to reach out. We love to hear feedback as well as, you know, ideas for what we could be doing better.
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So definitely reach out. We've already got one good idea for this session. I'd love to hear more.
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So. With that, I’ll go ahead and wrap up and let you all get on with the rest of your day.
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I'm going to stick around and see if any questions should come in but keep an eye out for our training calendars to look for new sessions we offer new sessions every month.
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And I can always get something good out of those. B, anything that you'd like to add before we wrap up?
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Sorry to call you out.
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No, that's okay. Thank you so much. As always, you're always so informative and, thank you so much as always. You're always so informative and, you hit the highlights really well.
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So we appreciate it. Reader is going to know what all of those genre labels are going to be so I’d love to see that included and thanks everyone for coming
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Okay. Yeah, think so. Alright, well thanks everybody for tuning in. Again, I'm going to stick around for a minute or 2, see if anything should come up.
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But thanks so much for tuning in. Have a great rest of your day.