Duration: 45 Minutes
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Alright so hopefully, you can hear me all right with that. So welcome everyone to your training today supporting K. 12 students in public libraries. This training is for the Washington State Library. My name is Tammi Burke. I'm a senior trainer at Gale.
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And I thank you for taking time out of your day to join us to talk about the resources you have available from the Washington State Library to help support.
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Those younger patrons that are coming into your public libraries. Our focus for today's training is on public libraries, and how they can provide.
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Academic support for K. 12. With their Gale resources.
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We will cover the rich content that you have available within the resources.
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Providing comprehensive homework, help.
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And also these resources align to what they're studying in the classroom.
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We'll also learn about the tools.
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And features that you have available.
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To support accessibility along with all of that great content, how to share that content save that content, so on and so forth.
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Again. If you have any questions, please feel free to use the QA. Box.
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For our agenda. We are going to start with talking about access to the Washington State Library resources so that you are familiar with that hopefully, you're already using your direct Urls and just looking to explore how you can utilize your Gale resources more in your library with K. 12 patrons.
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Overview of those resources that we are going to touch into today. And then I will. We're going to spend the majority of our time searching through content. I will be showing you those tools and features, and just exploring the resources, and really talking about what students can utilize within those resources, and how easily accessible it is, and user friendly any questions that you have again, please feel free to use that. QA.
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Box, and then at the end, I will leave you with not only my contact information, but you have one on one support.
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In all things, Gale, with your Gale customer success managers and I will share their email at the end. They are solely there to support you with your Gale resources, make sure that you're not only understanding what you have available, but how to access them. All of the cool tools and features that we have.
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Within our support site. So we have all kinds of activities and projects and great for your public library programming.
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Available within our gale support site, and they can help with that. I'm going to touch into it a little bit. But if you would like a 1 on one walkthrough.
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I'll leave you with your Gale customer success manager at the end, and I will also. That will be in the follow up email. So you'll have their email address in 2 spots.
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So I'll talk a little bit more about that. As we work through the resource.
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Resources, I should say access to your Washington State Library resources. You can utilize the gale support site which let me share that link with you in the chat.
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So I'm going to copy that and paste it right here real quick.
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This is a really good one to bookmark, because not only will it share with you your direct link, so once you access that link.
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You will see here there'll be a dropdown list where you can find your library name. Of course you can.
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Put in your library name, and it'll search for you and still help you find it quickly.
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Once you find your library, name and click, proceed.
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You can move directly into those direct Urls. Now, if you don't see your library name.
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Let us know. You can always email me, and I can connect you with.
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Are fantastic contact at the Washington State Library, and she can help you out with that process.
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If this is a public library session. But if we have any K 12 folks that are here today and you don't see your library name. You're going to want to contact you contact your Esd. They are the ones that work with work with you and make sure that you have access, and walk through that process with you. So.
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Just for any K 12 folks contact your local Esd.
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So on this support site. Not only can you get your direct Urls, but you're going to find all of your ebook information. You can see right here on the homepage upcoming webinars that we have scheduled.
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And then here are all of the direct links. So if I were to select my library like, let's say I'm using the Washington State Library as my as my personal library, or as a library I work at. Then what would happen is when I selected it, my location Id would be built into.
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My links. So that means that my usage will roll up to my.
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Account. So to my library. And you really want that you want those direct Urls so that you're seeing the usage at your library site because we have a fantastic usage. It pulls all kinds of great materials together for you. You can look at top searches, you can help build collections. You can use it as a tool. There's a word Cloud, if you ever need anything like that. Looking at those top searches and top resources.
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And that is something, too, that your Gale customer success managers can help you with. They can walk you through that usage report, and you can measure. Maybe in in 90 days. You want to see, a certain percentage of growth. And that's your focus. And so.
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I know it helps folks out, especially as we approach. Coming up to the end of the year.
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That a lot of lot of usage reports are being run.
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I'm here like in November, beginning of December. So we do have that tool available for you. But you 1st need to use your direct Urls.
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Okay, hope that makes sense what I just covered. Let's talk a little bit about the resources. And we're focusing on the resources for your K through 12 students. So your younger patrons that are coming into your library.
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The 1st one we are going to talk about is Gale In Context: elementary.
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This is a resource designed for kindergarten through 5th grade students covering those topics that are being studied in class.
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We have Gale In Context: middle school. This is an engaging cross curricular. I like to call these the building blocks elementary middle school, and then you also have high school.
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Cross curricular reference. You're going to find primary source information, science, poetry, and so much more.
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And then the 3rd rounding out those building blocks, Gale In Context: high School. These are all in our in context, which is rich multimedia. Again, these 3 are cross, curricular, general reference. So you're going to find a little bit of everything available.
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And in our high school resource you're going to find topics such as geography, history, science, literature, social issues, and more.
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And these resources are related to curriculum standards.
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And you'll also see our content levels are aligned to lexile measures.
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And then the 4th in your in context of resources that you have available is global issues. Global issues is great for high school, also used at the middle school level. So if you have those students coming into your public library.
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Know that you have a global resource that has a global viewpoint. So this is looking at.
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Awareness, global awareness, exploring issues within government and health and science and society and culture, and so much more. But is that global viewpoint. But again, in the in context, I see someone raise their hand. If you have a question, please feel free to use the QA. Box.
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You can put a message to me in there also. If that was an accident that happens a lot, we get folks that accidentally raise their hand.
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Yeah, I think that's what happened. Okay.
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Next slide. I want to jump into the resource that we're going to talk about is that Gale ebooks.
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Gale ebooks you. The collection has been purchased by the Washington State Library. You may have additional ebooks that you purchased from Gale , that your library has purchased from Gale , so you might have even a larger collection. But you do have a nice collection.
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To get you started with your Gale ebooks from the Washington State Library, and these are 24, 7, content, unlimited, simultaneous access. No holds or return, so no check-in or checkout.
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Mobile, responsive, just like all of your other gale resources unlimited download, so you can download the content.
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If it's a chapter, or if you would like to, you're interested in just certain sections of the book, or if you want to go cover to cover and download each of those chapters. You can do that, but it's unlimited downloads.
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Very intuitive search and browse, features.
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And then search option within all of your resources. You have topic.
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Topic finder is a visual representation of your search results, and it's a search option. I will be modeling for you today.
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The resource translates into the text into over 50 languages, so.
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Imagine a class or us. Maybe you're working in library, and you're using one of these books as a book study within your library programming. You can utilize this.
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Text, or this, I should say this.
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Ebook with your entire group and translate it if you need to, and then we have additional tools to support accessibility, too. So you can really meet the varying needs of your students.
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That are coming into your public library.
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We have text to speech which is one of our tools to support accessibility. The ability to download this as an Mp. 3.
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And then, of course, integration with Google and Microsoft as available within the resources.
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Gale l Litfinder is one I'd like to touch into today. It's a pretty ambitious list of resources, but hopefully I can get through as many as possible.
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Gale literature, Litfinder, in case we don't get to it. I want to talk to you about it, because you may have students coming in looking for literary works. Now remember all of the tools, the accessibility tools also apply to this resource. They applied all your gale resources so.
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If you have students that are coming into your public library, and they're looking for poetry, or they're looking for short stories and novels or essays or speeches, including inaugural speeches.
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There's plays, and so much more available. This is a great resource for literary works.
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And that's Gale lit gale literature.
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And then I just want to touch into these collections as more of an overview. So you have. You're aware of what resources you do have available.
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And you have me.
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You have in your business suite.
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You have Gale business insights great for company, profiles, business, entrepreneurship. If you're looking for business plans, or starting a business or managing a business.
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Great information there, Gale, one file business is more of that periodical. I will tell you anything with one file in the title is going to be periodical content. Academic journals. This might be some business journals, industry, specific information within Gale , one file business, but one file is periodical, academic journals, magazines, newspapers, is the focus of those resources.
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In the In contact suite you also have for college students. You have Gale.
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Gale in context, college.
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Can see we have academic, one file, which is great for any higher Ed or Ap. Classes. If you have students coming in for those accelerated programs academic. One files a great resource for them. We're general. One file is focusing more on those popular magazines and is more of that general reference.
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Periodical resource, and then we also have a very large one. File news. So.
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So newspapers, you can actually read them digitally.
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And then you can see some of the others listed here below.
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I won't jump into all of them. The title is there. I will point out one more, though, and that is Gale. One File High school edition, when you, if you ever have students coming into your library looking for.
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Current events or they're looking. They have a civics class, and they need that type of information where periodical content is a great match for what they're looking for. Remember that you have high school edition. This one file product is focused more for our high school students.
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So if they were to go into academic one file, it might be a little bit of that.
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Little bit higher than what they need, because it's it's really is designed for not only higher Ed, but our accelerated programs where High school edition is more at their level of what they're looking for, for those types of.
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Studies that they're doing in the classroom.
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And then we have a full suite of health, resources, health, and wellness. This is a great one. We call it the consumer, more for the consumer this resource, because it is something that I would go into to find information on. If maybe I'm looking at exercise or diet. But I could be. Maybe it's stress and anxiety that that is something I wanted to take a look at.
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This is a great resource for all those topics great for any caregivers.
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Or those caring for.
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For family members. Health and wellness is a great resource for that where the one file product family here is focusing more on health and medicine. So this is more for our professionals, our medical students.
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Same with nursing and Allied health and physical therapy and sports medicine, and I just pulled out a few. You have a very large one file collection.
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Alright. Let me know if you have any questions. The QA. Box is open, a few tools I want you to keep in mind, and I will be modeling these for you today.
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Using the get link tool. This is great for public library programming. If you want to directly connect to content. If you have, maybe a group of students that you're working with.
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Or no, that come into your library. There's a subject of study work closely with the schools in Washington. Maybe that's something that they come in, and they always do a big study, and if it's elementary, maybe.
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In Michigan. We do penguins for birds, because.
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It's winter here, and gets very cold.
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For a very long time. So we cover penguins in January. So maybe they're coming in and wiping out the public library, as my students used to of all the books penguins. So you can highlight and share that information with them by connecting directly to content within the digital resources.
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So you can utilize that get link tool. I just give you one example. You have the ability to share to Google classroom.
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Microsoft, Onedrive.
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And Google drive, and then you can also send. I'm sorry you shared a Google classroom, but you can also send to Google Drive and Microsoft onedrive.
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Okay. Oh, yes, Annie, I will. I'm sorry I got a question I was just reading. I will at the end of the session. Talk about the direct Urls, and I'll provide that link again. I don't know if you took a look at that. Here, let me.
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Let me know if you can see it in the chat. If not, I can let me copy and paste it again.
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And post this link. You'll want to find your library there if you're not using your direct Urls.
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For your resources.
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Take a look, find your library, find your direct Urls. If you don't, then let me know, and we'll connect you with.
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Are great folks at the Washington State Library.
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To support accessibility. We have great tools that I'm going to talk to you about, like translate font size and the display options.
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To encourage analysis. We have highlights and notes. This tool is great to promote not only deeper learning, but color, coding and annotation.
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And then to develop those research skills because we are talking about K, 12 students.
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Coming into your public library. We have topic pages and topic and the citation tool. I'm going to model all of these for you today.
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So with that, let's jump into our 1st resource, and we are starting with the younger ones, with Gale In Context:, elementary.
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Please let me know if you have any questions.
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I will be looking at keeping an eye on that QA. Box.
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So Gale In Context: elementary. I want to point out a few items. And again, these are shared tools and features across all of your gale resources where you have the ability to translate the navigational tools. So here these navigational tools actually let me just model it for you.
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I always like to choose Italian.
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You could translate the navigational tools on the page to help navigate through the resource into one of 34 languages. It's.
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This is separate than our translation at the document level.
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Go back to English.
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I also can toggle the sound on and off to help me navigate. So if I toggle the sound on, and that's here in my contextual toolbar.
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Pictures, news.
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Books.
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You can see how it can help me navigate through the resource.
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I can sign in with Google and Microsoft.
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And I'm going to sign in with Google.
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And now I can anytime I send information.
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To my Google drive. It'll always land in a folder.
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With the title of Whatever the resource I'm in. So I'm in Gale In Context: elementary.
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So folder will be created in my Google Drive or my Microsoft Onedrive and Contacts Elementary and anytime I send any information from this resource.
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To my Google driver Microsoft onedrive. It'll always land in that Gale In Context:, elementary folder, because that's a resource. I'm in.
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If I were in middle school or high school it would look for the resource, would look for that folder.
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And put information there.
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Okay, let's talk about a few basic things here within Gale In context elementary. You do have right on the homepage videos, all available. We did pull them out. So it's really quick and easy to find. If you want a video, maybe you're looking at one of the subjects we're going to talk about today is life cycle.
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I can quickly drill down and find content on.
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Life cycles. Same with pictures. Maybe I'm specifically looking for plants. Oh, before I click into pictures.
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We do have a lot of infographics and timelines available. We've been adding them.
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Quite a bit recently, so you can see quite a bit is listed here right on the homepage. We have multiple pages below to navigate through. But if I'm looking specifically for, say, plants.
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I can find great images available, even.
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Labeled and unlabeled illustrations.
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So. And we have multiple pages available here, too.
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News has our news Kit news category. At the 1st I can search through, and then our fun facts listed below.
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We have indigenous peoples. Day from October.
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Or that's coming up on October 14, th and you can see some of the other fun categories here below. This is always a great place to take a look at.
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Especially if you have students that maybe if you're working with them together in a whole group.
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And you want them to look for fun facts. This is a great place for them to do that.
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Your books. This is based on.
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The collection that's been purchased by the Washington State Library.
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And then topics takes us back to that homepage. So I went backwards down our list. Here.
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We have lots of, I wonder questions, and these will change, depending on where you're at within the resource. So I have them on my homepage. I'll also have them on our topic, and I'll show you that in a moment. But in the related to where we, where we go within the resource, but I love them because they really do.
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Spark, that curiosity and inquisitiveness.
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Students have at this younger age, and especially if they're coming into your public library.
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How fun to get them started off talking about an I wonder question.
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Then you have all of these subject categories in what we call the topic.
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I'm going to click into animals just to show you as a quick model. And then I'm going to take us into the lifecycle.
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But you can see all of the related topics here below. We have a high level piece of information at the top.
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If I click on mammals.
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Then it takes me to again high level piece of information there about mammals overall, and then it.
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I can go to any of the topic pages that we have available.
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And we have quite a few.
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Let's say I am interested in. I've been going to tigers a lot lately.
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When I click into it.
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It again very visual. I can.
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See an image and an essay overview or topic overview. I have some quick facts.
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And then below are book articles and magazines, biographies. Oh, look at that one that's really cool.
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And then any related topic pages. We happen to have one of those infographics, or this one is a timeline. Here.
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If we had videos, we would see those, too.
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Something I want to point out on our topic is, you have 2 reading levels.
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Level one and level 2.
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Level one is lower, elementary content level 2 is upper elementary, if you remember, because we have 5 levels total.
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I always tell folks, if you remember content. Level 3 is middle school. Everything below is elementary. Everything above is high school to undergrad that helps keep it simple.
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Just 3 right in the middle is middle school, and then.
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Then it goes down from there for elementary students.
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So you can see I'm in a level one. I have some words to know.
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The vocabulary is going to be a little bit easier for me, because I'm in a level one.
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When I go to a level 2, which is more upper, elementary.
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My images change.
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And then the text gets a little bit harder.
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Because I'm at a higher reading level.
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Okay. So we talked briefly about the topic. Page, let me go back to the home page. I want to take you into some more content. And then we're going to jump into another resource and let's go into science.
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And.
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Algae in nature.
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Life, cycles.
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Again, image essay, overview quick facts.
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We have book articles, magazines, lots of pictures and videos. We saw those videos from the home page.
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And then additional related topic pages.
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Let's say I'm interested in the book articles.
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And you can see I have a lot of ones and twos here, which is great, but sometimes we might see a level 3 from a publisher, and sometimes it's a word that might get it to jump a little bit higher. This one's from encyclopedia, so that may have jumped a little bit higher, because I'm guessing.
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This title is probably pushing that a little bit to that next level.
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So that sometimes happened. We see that with our articles, but what I can do.
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They didn't fix it. Okay, so I have a few options available. When I select any of them, let's go down to.
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Flowering Plants.
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When I'm at the document level. If this is information that let's say I want to listen to being read aloud to me, I can choose my listen, button.
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And it'll start reading.
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I also, before it starts.
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Me share this with you. I have the ability to enlarge the text, and I want to show you what that looks like. There's some other settings that are pretty straightforward here. The ability to download also as an Mp. 3. But let me turn this enlarge on so you can see.
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Flowering Plants.
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You could see. It pulls that text out onto the page.
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Roses are a flowering.
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It's reading. There we go.
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Roses are a flowering plant.
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Copyright, Akia.
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It is reading. Oh, here it's reading the caption.
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It does skip over the I will say it does skip over the publication information, but in images it does always read everything in this little box so, and then it'll go into our words to know and work down the page. But it pulls out the text onto the page.
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Me go into another document. Here.
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Let's go to.
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Magazines.
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There we go. So this one doesn't start with a.
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Click, listen.
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And it should. It does, it.
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Should cookie and stick with me throughout my session.
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That we just updated this not too long ago. So.
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A butterfly's life cycle.
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One. A butterfly lays its eggs on a plant.
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So you could see it pulls out the sentence and the word that it's on, and it reads it aloud.
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Great for emergent readers.
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If I don't have that on.
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And I click, play.
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A caterpillar hatches from each.
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It'll still highlight.
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To the caterpillar, eats.
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Still read aloud. It highlights each sentence and each word that it's on. I can slow that speed down underneath that settings. I have lots of options to slow it down.
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I can also change some of the features for the settings, too. So like the what's being highlighted in the colors. So there's a lot of different options within that settings.
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That's 1 of our tools I wanted to point out to you before I jump into the next resource.
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Let me know if you have any questions. I do want to quickly jump into.
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Our next resource, which is Gale in context, middle school.
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And I am using the gale page to access it.
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So if you have middle school students coming into your library, this is the resource I would suggest that they utilize. It is for 6 through 8th grade students.
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Again, we have subject categories. Each of these subject categories will take you to a topic page.
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You can see all of the list of topic pages that we have available.
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So let's say we're doing a study on F. Scott.
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Scott, F. Scott, Fitzgerald. There we go.
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I can get some biographical information on him.
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And also chances are I have some topic overviews in here might have some.
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Creative work. So I might have some books there, too.
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So let's browse. We looked at the topic just briefly. Let me go back to that homepage.
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Because I want to point out to you if I do select world history this time.
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You can at any time.
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Go back to any of those main topics. I don't have to go back to the homepage every time.
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I can jump to another.
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One of those topic pages.
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But the topic pages are curated collections of information by our subject matter. Specialists.
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We look at curriculum standards. We hear from you all what you're studying, and that's how they're created. And then they're continuously being updated.
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These updated tags just mean that the.
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Image and essay overview or topic overview have been updated. So that's what that information means. So the great wall of China, this right here has been updated because all of the content is being updated as soon as new information is available, it's updated within our resources.
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So it could be, with our newspaper magazine articles. That's pretty.
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Same with sometimes our videos and and audio files are images where our reference content is more of that. You're going to find a lot of encyclopedia type content there. So more of that book article Content will be under reference.
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Alright. So let me, let's go to one of my favorites. And then I want to show you more about those tools to support accessibility. I'm just going to do a basic search on endangered species.
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If you look here at the top.
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When I started to do my search.
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A topic guide pops up. That means that I have a topic page available for this subject.
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So I can quickly jump to that. There's again tigers.
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Imagine as they overview. I honestly didn't think about it that way today until I saw his face. I just love this topic.
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I want to share with you.
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The the additional tools to support accessibility, and then a search option. While we're in this resource. So.
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Again, you can see reference biographies, videos, audio magazines, news, primary sources, related topics is going to be those related topic pages, just like in.
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Gale l and context, elementary.
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If I go into an article at the article level, and I'm just going to use.
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My reference, content, as you can see here.
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This is Encyclopedia of Science.
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So I'm going to click into extinction.
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Something that we're concerned about with our tigers.
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This one has a great words to know. Section of extinction.
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You can see some of our content is hyperlinked out, so it'll take me to additional articles.
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Related to extinction, and dinosaurs.
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We have these tools to support accessibility, just as we did.
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In the other resource. There's the listen, Button. Let's talk about the others.
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The ability to translate the text into over 50 languages.
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To decrease or.
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Increase the font size.
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Display options and the listen button. If I turn any features on like that in large text, as I did in the previous resource, it will stick with me throughout my.
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Session. Here, within the resource.
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Same with display options, so these 2 both will stick with you.
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Any settings you set up will stick with you.
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So I can change the color. I can change it to open dyslexic. I can increase the line.
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And now this will stick with me throughout my session.
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So it's again meeting the varying needs of our users.
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We have display options at the document level.
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To remove it. I just open it back up.
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And click back to default settings.
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Okay. So we talked about our tools to support accessibility. We also have all kinds of great send options where I can quickly send this to Google, drive Microsoft onedrive email, download and print. You will always find.
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Everything on within your resources from Gale in the HTML format. This text that I'm seeing here, and also, if I were to download this, I would have it as a Pdf, so you always have both. We are consistent across all of our resources, which really helps when you're working with students.
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Because they know that they're going to see it in this format, and also if they really needed to download it, they can also download it as a Pdf.
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So keeping it consistent for our users is really important.
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Let me show you a very fun.
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Way to do a search. So.
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This lives in a couple of spots. It lives here on the homepage.
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It's called topic finder.
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It also lives. Let me go to one of my topic pages real quick.
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Just go to adventures. Huckleberry Finn.
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It also lives in our contextual toolbar. Here.
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Topic, finder.
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If I go to one of our content types, I'm going to click reference again.
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It also lives here.
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Below the filter. Your results box.
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Now, if I use it from a topic page, either here in the top, in our contextual toolbar here below the filter results, it's only going to pull in content from my adventures of Uncle Berry Finn. Topic page.
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If I use it from the homepage.
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Let's go back.
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I use it from the homepage.
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It also always lives under advanced search. Just so.
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Either way. Then it's going to pull in.
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All the content. So not just a curated content, but everything. So keep that in mind when you're working with.
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Your patrons. And let's say I'm looking at space exploration.
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We also have a topic page for this. If you want to compare the 2.
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It pulls back these tiles.
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You have 2 different visualizations available. You have tiles or wheel.
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Purely preference. Our students usually like the tiles. That's why we're defaulted in that, because this is a K through 12 resource.
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I can go directly to NASA when I click into it. See, this is an interactive tool.
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I can go directly to the moon.
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And on the right hand side it takes me to 11 documents images. Whatever we have available, it pulls it out.
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And I can quickly jump to.
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One of those documents.
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Alright. Let me know if you have any questions.
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I want to go into our next resource and show you a few more tools.
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And that is Gale In Context: High School. Let me close some of these out up here.
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And look at the I do want to point these out. See how high school is in the in context family, where high school addition is periodical because it says Gale, one file high school addition. We get asked that a lot. What's the difference in context is going to be more of that rich multimedia. It's going to be organized with topic pages as I've been sharing with you with your other in context, resources.
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Where high school edition is periodical.
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So it's strictly focusing on magazines, academic journals.
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And that's its focus. And it looks different, too. Let me share that with you. So you can see very different. It is again looking at the publications.
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Periodical publications, sorry periodical.
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Where high school, Gael in context, high school.
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Looks like this, like our other in context, resources.
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So gone are the images because we, these are high schoolers. So now we have more texts, all the topic pages beginning of the month. So you're going to see a lot of updated tags or new. We have a brand new one here.
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That are available.
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In this resource. Let's actually go into advanced search. So let's build a little bit more of your knowledge.
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This time we're going to go to advanced search.
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And I want to focus on the primary sources that we have available. Now, advanced search can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be.
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It's very easy to use. Our high schoolers should be, especially our 11th and 12th graders. Be utilizing this because they will be using it at the higher ed level. I even have had some higher Ed accounts.
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Take their students right into advanced search.
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Within their gale resources, because you can set it up that way.
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I love the top, the home pages, because there's so much great information there.
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Even in our literature resources, which that's where I saw it was a lit resource, and they were missing. All this great information on the homepage.
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So when I did the training, I showed it to him. They're like, Wait, what is that? So? Just know that some of our higher Ed folks do take students right into advanced search.
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I'm going to go down to content type. And we're going to focus on primary sources right here.
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I'm just going to select that I'm not going to put in any other information, because I want to share with you.
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Search. Through this we have almost 4,000 primary sources available within Gale In Context:. High school.
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Now, at this point I can filter my results. So I wanted to teach you about the filter your results by publication date. Now, these are primary sources, so I don't know of publication. Date would be the route. I would go
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I actually prefer for primary sources or any social studies or history type topics using document type, you have subject and publication title laxer. There's those content levels. So if I wanted to filter this down, I could.
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And then use my get link tool. So.
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I don't know that I have a ton of level threes, because this is a high school resource. But let's see level threes and fours.
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I'm going to apply that content level.
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If I wanted to share this in my public library directly, taking students to primary sources.
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That are at the middle school and high school reading level. Only I can do that.
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And use my get link, tool, get. Link provides a persistent URL back to any spot. It could be a topic page like I've already shown you.
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Those topic pages right? It could be filtered results as we've done here. Or it could just be simply a document at the document level.
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Now I can add additional.
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Filters like document type, which is one of my favorites to do.
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I can add letters.
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Diary entries, and apply those.
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And now that's what I'm seeing in my results. So I've taken 4,000 down to 291.
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Let's take a look at this 1st one. This is a letter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman.
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You see, this starts with a commentary, and then it goes actually into that primary source.
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And if I wanted to share a link back to this.
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Particular article.
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I could just use the get link tool, and it would take me right back to this letter.
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Or I can download or print it off or send it directly to my Google drive onedrive email.
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That lives underneath the paper airplane up here.
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My citations are attached, but my citation tool is here also very intuitive.
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You can change the format, choose where you'd like to export it to so very intuitive information.
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Something else I want to point out to you is our panel.
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Explore panel is fantastic for supplemental information so similar to we have the hyperlinked.
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Articles so additional articles related.
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To either. What we're on. This is a letter. And Marilyn, specifically. But you're also going to find this great supplemental information here.
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This more like this panel.
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Lot of times students are tasked with finding 3 different. Maybe it's brief articles.
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To support their writing or their project that they're working on. And this is a great way to direct them. If they're coming into your library and working with you, looking for homework. Help.
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Have them use this explore panel and not just look over it because it's related to. It's supplemental to the article they're on. So.
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They're looking for 3 on similar topics. This will be really helpful to them.
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And the last feature I want to share with you. And then we're going to jump into one more time. We should be okay with one more resource here.
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I can click and drag over any chunk of text.
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This text box up. It's my highlights and notes, so I can mark up this document. I can add in any notes.
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Save it. And now I can send this.
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To Google Microsoft, onedrive or print, and it will remain marked up.
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Plus over here. See my highlights and notes.
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This is being built out. This is session based.
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So my highlights and notes. I only added one thing there.
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I have what I like to call digital notes.
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So you have these digital notes, and you can send just these.
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To Google Microsoft email or print.
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One more resource I want to go into. Let me know if you have any questions.
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Possibly. I don't know if I can squeeze both in, but I do want to talk to you about your ebook collection real quick.
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Just a few things here. So your ebooks again, this is the Washington State Library. What they have available, what they provided for you. You may have additional available.
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You can see on the left hand side. I have the subject categories for me.
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If I wanted to say, Go, I want to point out a couple things to you. One. Let's go into science. You do have these enhanced collections available.
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What it means by enhanced means that there's actually video content within this ebook.
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So I wanted to point those out. You have these great enhanced, available.
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Even under social science you have 26 titles.
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You see, this one is full of. You have some encyclopedias. Here's some of those in enhanced titles that you have available.
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So let's say, maybe I'm interested in.
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Immigration of America in America.
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And it takes me 1st to my table of contents.
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But look here, I have the list of all videos. So if I was curious as to what video content I did have available.
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I can go to from that table of contents. I can jump to my list of videos that I have available.
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I have the ability to go right into the book and view the ebook.
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Which I'm going to do that first.st Let me see.
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Where it'll take me.
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Okay. So it takes me right to chapter one.
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It jumped over all of my.
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Publication, information and.
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Any acknowledgements, table contents that jumped over all of that. But this is the bookview.
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There's a difference between book view. And then, if you look up here, text view, I still have my table of contents.
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So I can go to another area if I needed to, or another chapter.
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My book view. I can view this in a whole screen.
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I can view this double page.
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And it is literally.
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The Pdf. Of in A, in a ebook format.
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Of my printbook.
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If I wanted to download this.
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I could download it.
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Now some of these, especially with our ebooks, we have the original source information. So you're going to find with that original source.
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Download won't be just a text. Pdf, it'll be the actual ebook pages.
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Now text view.
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Right up here in the contextual toolbar.
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When I click on text view.
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I still will have images, but now I have all of my tools to support accessibility.
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So if I do need to translate this, I can.
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Or if I want to send it to my Google drive, I can.
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And then you have your explore panel, too.
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So again, that's just simply changing it from text.
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To book. Both options are available when you're in your Gale ebooks.
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Alright. So that's all I wanted to point out in that resource.
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And then we have to jump back into our Powerpoint.
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But I'm going to go for it. I'm going to take.
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10 seconds of your time, and just talk to you about Litfinder.
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Because I can't. This resource has all those same tools and features, but it also has term frequency available.
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And let's say, if I'm looking for.
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Nikki, Giovanni.
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It takes you right into the primary sources and literary work. So you can see. Here is written by Nikki Giovanni. I have all of her full text.
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It could be her if it her poems. You can see where they're coming from. Publication. Wise.
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But it pulls it right out. We also have abstracts here.
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So those are also available. I know our public libraries and higher ed libraries like to have that available to their researchers for students. They're going to be more interested in your full text documents. But it takes you right to the primary sources and literary works. I also have biographies, topic and work overviews multimedia available.
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If I'm looking at topic and work overviews, I'm interested in explanation of Knoxville, Tennessee.
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Something I want to point out. This is coming from our contemporary collection.
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Is at the bottom. You're going to find maybe some related information that's hyperlinked out.
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So keep that in mind. If you're highlighting or showing any of this.
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Type of information within Litfinder.
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That you have scroll down because there might be more linked information.
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I might want to be able to go. This is the explanation.
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Or I can go directly to the biography of Nikki Giovanni. So lots of information available there.
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Within litfinder, even from just one simple document that I was on.
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Alright! Where can you go for additional support? That is your Gale support site and your Gale customer success managers.
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Your Gale support site, and this is what I posted in the chat.
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This link at the top will take you to all of your direct Urls.
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All of your titleists and mark records and database icons. You can find all that information on the support site.
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You just need to find your library from the Dropdown menu, and then the Urls. That will be.
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That you'll see on your page next after you select your library.
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Will be all of your direct Urls that you can put on your library website.
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If you'd like to walk through your Gale support site on the next slide, I'll share with you your Gale customer success managers.
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In the training center. You have tip sheets and tutorials and recorded webinars training decks. Also, this is where you're going to find all kinds of great student activities, such as escape rooms and tick toe. You can see here, here's an escape room that we've created for middle school. We also have information on Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare. So lots of great things to go along with your library programming.
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I know escape rooms are trending right now in our public libraries, which is really fun for students.
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To get to know the resources, but also what's available in their library. So you can utilize. We also have a template available. If you'd like to make your own, but we have one for element, 2 for elementary middle school and high school. So we have 2 for each. Now.
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That are ready to go, and then also templates available.
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We have the training toolkit.
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For each of your resources, which is a click sheet that's curated all of our training materials. And then marketing materials, as you're seeing here.
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We have marketing materials, like bookmarks and posters and email templates, and so much more.
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To connect with us. My name, again is Tammi Burke. I'm a senior trainer at Gale, and my contact information will be in your follow up email.
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You also can connect with your Gale customer success managers. They're the ones that I mentioned before. They are your one on one support, and all things. Gale, just send an email. Let them know what type of library or what library you're coming from, and they can help.
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And then also they will be that contact. Information will be in my follow up email.
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Tech support is also available if you need them, if you have any questions, and then the survey should pop up when you leave. If you could click continue, I would love to get your feedback in that comment section. I also share it internally and with our folks at the Washington State Library. Sometimes our States will ask for that survey information. They need it for their reports.
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It's anonymous. So please feel free to leave that feedback. It really helps us out.
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And then I already talked about the support site. So that wraps our session. Thanks everyone for your time today. Thanks for taking time out of your day. You have any questions. I will stay on at the end of today's training and answer those. Continue to answer those questions until you have asked them all. So thanks. Everyone have a great rest of your day. I do see a question that came through thanks. Session. Yes, this session was recorded.
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Absolutely. Please feel free to pass it to your colleagues. Ken watch for the follow up email. You'll find a link to where you can find that recording, but honestly, you'll find it here.
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See the support link here.
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This is exactly where you'll find it on the on the support site that I shared in the chat.
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If you go to the training section you'll see we have a library of Washington State.
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Library. Sessions that I've already facilitated, so you'll find them all recorded and listed there, so you can easily share that with your colleague, and thank you for sharing with that colleague. How soon will it be available.
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I will post it there soon.
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Just. I have another meeting I have to jump into, but I will post it there soon, so you will see it very shortly. But definitely the email that you receive. It'll be 24 h before you receive that. How soon do you need it? Ken? Let me know.
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I'm going to stop this recording. Thanks. Everyone.
Alright so hopefully, you can hear me all right with that. So welcome everyone to your training today supporting K. 12 students in public libraries. This training is for the Washington State Library. My name is Tammi Burke. I'm a senior trainer at Gale.
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And I thank you for taking time out of your day to join us to talk about the resources you have available from the Washington State Library to help support.
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Those younger patrons that are coming into your public libraries. Our focus for today's training is on public libraries, and how they can provide.
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Academic support for K. 12. With their Gale resources.
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We will cover the rich content that you have available within the resources.
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Providing comprehensive homework, help.
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And also these resources align to what they're studying in the classroom.
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We'll also learn about the tools.
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And features that you have available.
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To support accessibility along with all of that great content, how to share that content save that content, so on and so forth.
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Again. If you have any questions, please feel free to use the QA. Box.
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For our agenda. We are going to start with talking about access to the Washington State Library resources so that you are familiar with that hopefully, you're already using your direct Urls and just looking to explore how you can utilize your Gale resources more in your library with K. 12 patrons.
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Overview of those resources that we are going to touch into today. And then I will. We're going to spend the majority of our time searching through content. I will be showing you those tools and features, and just exploring the resources, and really talking about what students can utilize within those resources, and how easily accessible it is, and user friendly any questions that you have again, please feel free to use that. QA.
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Box, and then at the end, I will leave you with not only my contact information, but you have one on one support.
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In all things, Gale, with your Gale customer success managers and I will share their email at the end. They are solely there to support you with your Gale resources, make sure that you're not only understanding what you have available, but how to access them. All of the cool tools and features that we have.
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Within our support site. So we have all kinds of activities and projects and great for your public library programming.
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Available within our gale support site, and they can help with that. I'm going to touch into it a little bit. But if you would like a 1 on one walkthrough.
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I'll leave you with your Gale customer success manager at the end, and I will also. That will be in the follow up email. So you'll have their email address in 2 spots.
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So I'll talk a little bit more about that. As we work through the resource.
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Resources, I should say access to your Washington State Library resources. You can utilize the gale support site which let me share that link with you in the chat.
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So I'm going to copy that and paste it right here real quick.
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This is a really good one to bookmark, because not only will it share with you your direct link, so once you access that link.
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You will see here there'll be a dropdown list where you can find your library name. Of course you can.
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Put in your library name, and it'll search for you and still help you find it quickly.
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Once you find your library, name and click, proceed.
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You can move directly into those direct Urls. Now, if you don't see your library name.
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Let us know. You can always email me, and I can connect you with.
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Are fantastic contact at the Washington State Library, and she can help you out with that process.
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If this is a public library session. But if we have any K 12 folks that are here today and you don't see your library name. You're going to want to contact you contact your Esd. They are the ones that work with work with you and make sure that you have access, and walk through that process with you. So.
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Just for any K 12 folks contact your local Esd.
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So on this support site. Not only can you get your direct Urls, but you're going to find all of your ebook information. You can see right here on the homepage upcoming webinars that we have scheduled.
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And then here are all of the direct links. So if I were to select my library like, let's say I'm using the Washington State Library as my as my personal library, or as a library I work at. Then what would happen is when I selected it, my location Id would be built into.
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My links. So that means that my usage will roll up to my.
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Account. So to my library. And you really want that you want those direct Urls so that you're seeing the usage at your library site because we have a fantastic usage. It pulls all kinds of great materials together for you. You can look at top searches, you can help build collections. You can use it as a tool. There's a word Cloud, if you ever need anything like that. Looking at those top searches and top resources.
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And that is something, too, that your Gale customer success managers can help you with. They can walk you through that usage report, and you can measure. Maybe in in 90 days. You want to see, a certain percentage of growth. And that's your focus. And so.
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I know it helps folks out, especially as we approach. Coming up to the end of the year.
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That a lot of lot of usage reports are being run.
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I'm here like in November, beginning of December. So we do have that tool available for you. But you 1st need to use your direct Urls.
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Okay, hope that makes sense what I just covered. Let's talk a little bit about the resources. And we're focusing on the resources for your K through 12 students. So your younger patrons that are coming into your library.
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The 1st one we are going to talk about is Gale In Context: elementary.
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This is a resource designed for kindergarten through 5th grade students covering those topics that are being studied in class.
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We have Gale In Context: middle school. This is an engaging cross curricular. I like to call these the building blocks elementary middle school, and then you also have high school.
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Cross curricular reference. You're going to find primary source information, science, poetry, and so much more.
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And then the 3rd rounding out those building blocks, Gale In Context: high School. These are all in our in context, which is rich multimedia. Again, these 3 are cross, curricular, general reference. So you're going to find a little bit of everything available.
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And in our high school resource you're going to find topics such as geography, history, science, literature, social issues, and more.
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And these resources are related to curriculum standards.
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And you'll also see our content levels are aligned to lexile measures.
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And then the 4th in your in context of resources that you have available is global issues. Global issues is great for high school, also used at the middle school level. So if you have those students coming into your public library.
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Know that you have a global resource that has a global viewpoint. So this is looking at.
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Awareness, global awareness, exploring issues within government and health and science and society and culture, and so much more. But is that global viewpoint. But again, in the in context, I see someone raise their hand. If you have a question, please feel free to use the QA. Box.
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You can put a message to me in there also. If that was an accident that happens a lot, we get folks that accidentally raise their hand.
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Yeah, I think that's what happened. Okay.
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Next slide. I want to jump into the resource that we're going to talk about is that Gale ebooks.
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Gale ebooks you. The collection has been purchased by the Washington State Library. You may have additional ebooks that you purchased from Gale , that your library has purchased from Gale , so you might have even a larger collection. But you do have a nice collection.
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To get you started with your Gale ebooks from the Washington State Library, and these are 24, 7, content, unlimited, simultaneous access. No holds or return, so no check-in or checkout.
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Mobile, responsive, just like all of your other gale resources unlimited download, so you can download the content.
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If it's a chapter, or if you would like to, you're interested in just certain sections of the book, or if you want to go cover to cover and download each of those chapters. You can do that, but it's unlimited downloads.
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Very intuitive search and browse, features.
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And then search option within all of your resources. You have topic.
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Topic finder is a visual representation of your search results, and it's a search option. I will be modeling for you today.
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The resource translates into the text into over 50 languages, so.
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Imagine a class or us. Maybe you're working in library, and you're using one of these books as a book study within your library programming. You can utilize this.
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Text, or this, I should say this.
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Ebook with your entire group and translate it if you need to, and then we have additional tools to support accessibility, too. So you can really meet the varying needs of your students.
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That are coming into your public library.
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We have text to speech which is one of our tools to support accessibility. The ability to download this as an Mp. 3.
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And then, of course, integration with Google and Microsoft as available within the resources.
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Gale l Litfinder is one I'd like to touch into today. It's a pretty ambitious list of resources, but hopefully I can get through as many as possible.
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Gale literature, Litfinder, in case we don't get to it. I want to talk to you about it, because you may have students coming in looking for literary works. Now remember all of the tools, the accessibility tools also apply to this resource. They applied all your gale resources so.
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If you have students that are coming into your public library, and they're looking for poetry, or they're looking for short stories and novels or essays or speeches, including inaugural speeches.
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There's plays, and so much more available. This is a great resource for literary works.
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And that's Gale lit gale literature.
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And then I just want to touch into these collections as more of an overview. So you have. You're aware of what resources you do have available.
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And you have me.
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You have in your business suite.
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You have Gale business insights great for company, profiles, business, entrepreneurship. If you're looking for business plans, or starting a business or managing a business.
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Great information there, Gale, one file business is more of that periodical. I will tell you anything with one file in the title is going to be periodical content. Academic journals. This might be some business journals, industry, specific information within Gale , one file business, but one file is periodical, academic journals, magazines, newspapers, is the focus of those resources.
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In the In contact suite you also have for college students. You have Gale.
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Gale in context, college.
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Can see we have academic, one file, which is great for any higher Ed or Ap. Classes. If you have students coming in for those accelerated programs academic. One files a great resource for them. We're general. One file is focusing more on those popular magazines and is more of that general reference.
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Periodical resource, and then we also have a very large one. File news. So.
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So newspapers, you can actually read them digitally.
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And then you can see some of the others listed here below.
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I won't jump into all of them. The title is there. I will point out one more, though, and that is Gale. One File High school edition, when you, if you ever have students coming into your library looking for.
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Current events or they're looking. They have a civics class, and they need that type of information where periodical content is a great match for what they're looking for. Remember that you have high school edition. This one file product is focused more for our high school students.
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So if they were to go into academic one file, it might be a little bit of that.
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Little bit higher than what they need, because it's it's really is designed for not only higher Ed, but our accelerated programs where High school edition is more at their level of what they're looking for, for those types of.
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Studies that they're doing in the classroom.
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And then we have a full suite of health, resources, health, and wellness. This is a great one. We call it the consumer, more for the consumer this resource, because it is something that I would go into to find information on. If maybe I'm looking at exercise or diet. But I could be. Maybe it's stress and anxiety that that is something I wanted to take a look at.
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This is a great resource for all those topics great for any caregivers.
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Or those caring for.
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For family members. Health and wellness is a great resource for that where the one file product family here is focusing more on health and medicine. So this is more for our professionals, our medical students.
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Same with nursing and Allied health and physical therapy and sports medicine, and I just pulled out a few. You have a very large one file collection.
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Alright. Let me know if you have any questions. The QA. Box is open, a few tools I want you to keep in mind, and I will be modeling these for you today.
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Using the get link tool. This is great for public library programming. If you want to directly connect to content. If you have, maybe a group of students that you're working with.
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Or no, that come into your library. There's a subject of study work closely with the schools in Washington. Maybe that's something that they come in, and they always do a big study, and if it's elementary, maybe.
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In Michigan. We do penguins for birds, because.
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It's winter here, and gets very cold.
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For a very long time. So we cover penguins in January. So maybe they're coming in and wiping out the public library, as my students used to of all the books penguins. So you can highlight and share that information with them by connecting directly to content within the digital resources.
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So you can utilize that get link tool. I just give you one example. You have the ability to share to Google classroom.
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Microsoft, Onedrive.
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And Google drive, and then you can also send. I'm sorry you shared a Google classroom, but you can also send to Google Drive and Microsoft onedrive.
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Okay. Oh, yes, Annie, I will. I'm sorry I got a question I was just reading. I will at the end of the session. Talk about the direct Urls, and I'll provide that link again. I don't know if you took a look at that. Here, let me.
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Let me know if you can see it in the chat. If not, I can let me copy and paste it again.
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And post this link. You'll want to find your library there if you're not using your direct Urls.
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For your resources.
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Take a look, find your library, find your direct Urls. If you don't, then let me know, and we'll connect you with.
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Are great folks at the Washington State Library.
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To support accessibility. We have great tools that I'm going to talk to you about, like translate font size and the display options.
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To encourage analysis. We have highlights and notes. This tool is great to promote not only deeper learning, but color, coding and annotation.
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And then to develop those research skills because we are talking about K, 12 students.
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Coming into your public library. We have topic pages and topic and the citation tool. I'm going to model all of these for you today.
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So with that, let's jump into our 1st resource, and we are starting with the younger ones, with Gale In Context:, elementary.
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Please let me know if you have any questions.
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I will be looking at keeping an eye on that QA. Box.
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So Gale In Context: elementary. I want to point out a few items. And again, these are shared tools and features across all of your gale resources where you have the ability to translate the navigational tools. So here these navigational tools actually let me just model it for you.
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I always like to choose Italian.
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You could translate the navigational tools on the page to help navigate through the resource into one of 34 languages. It's.
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This is separate than our translation at the document level.
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Go back to English.
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I also can toggle the sound on and off to help me navigate. So if I toggle the sound on, and that's here in my contextual toolbar.
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Pictures, news.
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Books.
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You can see how it can help me navigate through the resource.
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I can sign in with Google and Microsoft.
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And I'm going to sign in with Google.
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And now I can anytime I send information.
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To my Google drive. It'll always land in a folder.
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With the title of Whatever the resource I'm in. So I'm in Gale In Context: elementary.
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So folder will be created in my Google Drive or my Microsoft Onedrive and Contacts Elementary and anytime I send any information from this resource.
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To my Google driver Microsoft onedrive. It'll always land in that Gale In Context:, elementary folder, because that's a resource. I'm in.
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If I were in middle school or high school it would look for the resource, would look for that folder.
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And put information there.
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Okay, let's talk about a few basic things here within Gale In context elementary. You do have right on the homepage videos, all available. We did pull them out. So it's really quick and easy to find. If you want a video, maybe you're looking at one of the subjects we're going to talk about today is life cycle.
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I can quickly drill down and find content on.
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Life cycles. Same with pictures. Maybe I'm specifically looking for plants. Oh, before I click into pictures.
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We do have a lot of infographics and timelines available. We've been adding them.
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Quite a bit recently, so you can see quite a bit is listed here right on the homepage. We have multiple pages below to navigate through. But if I'm looking specifically for, say, plants.
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I can find great images available, even.
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Labeled and unlabeled illustrations.
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So. And we have multiple pages available here, too.
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News has our news Kit news category. At the 1st I can search through, and then our fun facts listed below.
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We have indigenous peoples. Day from October.
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Or that's coming up on October 14, th and you can see some of the other fun categories here below. This is always a great place to take a look at.
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Especially if you have students that maybe if you're working with them together in a whole group.
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And you want them to look for fun facts. This is a great place for them to do that.
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Your books. This is based on.
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The collection that's been purchased by the Washington State Library.
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And then topics takes us back to that homepage. So I went backwards down our list. Here.
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We have lots of, I wonder questions, and these will change, depending on where you're at within the resource. So I have them on my homepage. I'll also have them on our topic, and I'll show you that in a moment. But in the related to where we, where we go within the resource, but I love them because they really do.
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Spark, that curiosity and inquisitiveness.
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Students have at this younger age, and especially if they're coming into your public library.
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How fun to get them started off talking about an I wonder question.
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Then you have all of these subject categories in what we call the topic.
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I'm going to click into animals just to show you as a quick model. And then I'm going to take us into the lifecycle.
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But you can see all of the related topics here below. We have a high level piece of information at the top.
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If I click on mammals.
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Then it takes me to again high level piece of information there about mammals overall, and then it.
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I can go to any of the topic pages that we have available.
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And we have quite a few.
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Let's say I am interested in. I've been going to tigers a lot lately.
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When I click into it.
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It again very visual. I can.
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See an image and an essay overview or topic overview. I have some quick facts.
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And then below are book articles and magazines, biographies. Oh, look at that one that's really cool.
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And then any related topic pages. We happen to have one of those infographics, or this one is a timeline. Here.
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If we had videos, we would see those, too.
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Something I want to point out on our topic is, you have 2 reading levels.
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Level one and level 2.
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Level one is lower, elementary content level 2 is upper elementary, if you remember, because we have 5 levels total.
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I always tell folks, if you remember content. Level 3 is middle school. Everything below is elementary. Everything above is high school to undergrad that helps keep it simple.
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Just 3 right in the middle is middle school, and then.
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Then it goes down from there for elementary students.
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So you can see I'm in a level one. I have some words to know.
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The vocabulary is going to be a little bit easier for me, because I'm in a level one.
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When I go to a level 2, which is more upper, elementary.
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My images change.
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And then the text gets a little bit harder.
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Because I'm at a higher reading level.
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Okay. So we talked briefly about the topic. Page, let me go back to the home page. I want to take you into some more content. And then we're going to jump into another resource and let's go into science.
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And.
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Algae in nature.
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Life, cycles.
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Again, image essay, overview quick facts.
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We have book articles, magazines, lots of pictures and videos. We saw those videos from the home page.
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And then additional related topic pages.
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Let's say I'm interested in the book articles.
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And you can see I have a lot of ones and twos here, which is great, but sometimes we might see a level 3 from a publisher, and sometimes it's a word that might get it to jump a little bit higher. This one's from encyclopedia, so that may have jumped a little bit higher, because I'm guessing.
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This title is probably pushing that a little bit to that next level.
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So that sometimes happened. We see that with our articles, but what I can do.
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They didn't fix it. Okay, so I have a few options available. When I select any of them, let's go down to.
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Flowering Plants.
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When I'm at the document level. If this is information that let's say I want to listen to being read aloud to me, I can choose my listen, button.
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And it'll start reading.
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I also, before it starts.
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Me share this with you. I have the ability to enlarge the text, and I want to show you what that looks like. There's some other settings that are pretty straightforward here. The ability to download also as an Mp. 3. But let me turn this enlarge on so you can see.
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Flowering Plants.
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You could see. It pulls that text out onto the page.
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Roses are a flowering.
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It's reading. There we go.
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Roses are a flowering plant.
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Copyright, Akia.
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It is reading. Oh, here it's reading the caption.
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It does skip over the I will say it does skip over the publication information, but in images it does always read everything in this little box so, and then it'll go into our words to know and work down the page. But it pulls out the text onto the page.
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Me go into another document. Here.
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Let's go to.
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Magazines.
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There we go. So this one doesn't start with a.
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Click, listen.
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And it should. It does, it.
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Should cookie and stick with me throughout my session.
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That we just updated this not too long ago. So.
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A butterfly's life cycle.
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One. A butterfly lays its eggs on a plant.
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So you could see it pulls out the sentence and the word that it's on, and it reads it aloud.
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Great for emergent readers.
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If I don't have that on.
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And I click, play.
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A caterpillar hatches from each.
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It'll still highlight.
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To the caterpillar, eats.
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Still read aloud. It highlights each sentence and each word that it's on. I can slow that speed down underneath that settings. I have lots of options to slow it down.
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I can also change some of the features for the settings, too. So like the what's being highlighted in the colors. So there's a lot of different options within that settings.
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That's 1 of our tools I wanted to point out to you before I jump into the next resource.
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Let me know if you have any questions. I do want to quickly jump into.
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Our next resource, which is Gale in context, middle school.
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And I am using the gale page to access it.
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So if you have middle school students coming into your library, this is the resource I would suggest that they utilize. It is for 6 through 8th grade students.
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Again, we have subject categories. Each of these subject categories will take you to a topic page.
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You can see all of the list of topic pages that we have available.
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So let's say we're doing a study on F. Scott.
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Scott, F. Scott, Fitzgerald. There we go.
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I can get some biographical information on him.
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And also chances are I have some topic overviews in here might have some.
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Creative work. So I might have some books there, too.
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So let's browse. We looked at the topic just briefly. Let me go back to that homepage.
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Because I want to point out to you if I do select world history this time.
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You can at any time.
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Go back to any of those main topics. I don't have to go back to the homepage every time.
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I can jump to another.
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One of those topic pages.
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But the topic pages are curated collections of information by our subject matter. Specialists.
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We look at curriculum standards. We hear from you all what you're studying, and that's how they're created. And then they're continuously being updated.
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These updated tags just mean that the.
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Image and essay overview or topic overview have been updated. So that's what that information means. So the great wall of China, this right here has been updated because all of the content is being updated as soon as new information is available, it's updated within our resources.
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So it could be, with our newspaper magazine articles. That's pretty.
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Same with sometimes our videos and and audio files are images where our reference content is more of that. You're going to find a lot of encyclopedia type content there. So more of that book article Content will be under reference.
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Alright. So let me, let's go to one of my favorites. And then I want to show you more about those tools to support accessibility. I'm just going to do a basic search on endangered species.
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If you look here at the top.
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When I started to do my search.
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A topic guide pops up. That means that I have a topic page available for this subject.
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So I can quickly jump to that. There's again tigers.
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Imagine as they overview. I honestly didn't think about it that way today until I saw his face. I just love this topic.
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I want to share with you.
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The the additional tools to support accessibility, and then a search option. While we're in this resource. So.
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Again, you can see reference biographies, videos, audio magazines, news, primary sources, related topics is going to be those related topic pages, just like in.
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Gale l and context, elementary.
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If I go into an article at the article level, and I'm just going to use.
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My reference, content, as you can see here.
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This is Encyclopedia of Science.
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So I'm going to click into extinction.
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Something that we're concerned about with our tigers.
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This one has a great words to know. Section of extinction.
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You can see some of our content is hyperlinked out, so it'll take me to additional articles.
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Related to extinction, and dinosaurs.
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We have these tools to support accessibility, just as we did.
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In the other resource. There's the listen, Button. Let's talk about the others.
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The ability to translate the text into over 50 languages.
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To decrease or.
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Increase the font size.
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Display options and the listen button. If I turn any features on like that in large text, as I did in the previous resource, it will stick with me throughout my.
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Session. Here, within the resource.
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Same with display options, so these 2 both will stick with you.
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Any settings you set up will stick with you.
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So I can change the color. I can change it to open dyslexic. I can increase the line.
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And now this will stick with me throughout my session.
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So it's again meeting the varying needs of our users.
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We have display options at the document level.
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To remove it. I just open it back up.
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And click back to default settings.
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Okay. So we talked about our tools to support accessibility. We also have all kinds of great send options where I can quickly send this to Google, drive Microsoft onedrive email, download and print. You will always find.
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Everything on within your resources from Gale in the HTML format. This text that I'm seeing here, and also, if I were to download this, I would have it as a Pdf, so you always have both. We are consistent across all of our resources, which really helps when you're working with students.
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Because they know that they're going to see it in this format, and also if they really needed to download it, they can also download it as a Pdf.
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So keeping it consistent for our users is really important.
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Let me show you a very fun.
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Way to do a search. So.
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This lives in a couple of spots. It lives here on the homepage.
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It's called topic finder.
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It also lives. Let me go to one of my topic pages real quick.
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Just go to adventures. Huckleberry Finn.
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It also lives in our contextual toolbar. Here.
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Topic, finder.
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If I go to one of our content types, I'm going to click reference again.
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It also lives here.
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Below the filter. Your results box.
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Now, if I use it from a topic page, either here in the top, in our contextual toolbar here below the filter results, it's only going to pull in content from my adventures of Uncle Berry Finn. Topic page.
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If I use it from the homepage.
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Let's go back.
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I use it from the homepage.
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It also always lives under advanced search. Just so.
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Either way. Then it's going to pull in.
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All the content. So not just a curated content, but everything. So keep that in mind when you're working with.
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Your patrons. And let's say I'm looking at space exploration.
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We also have a topic page for this. If you want to compare the 2.
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It pulls back these tiles.
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You have 2 different visualizations available. You have tiles or wheel.
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Purely preference. Our students usually like the tiles. That's why we're defaulted in that, because this is a K through 12 resource.
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I can go directly to NASA when I click into it. See, this is an interactive tool.
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I can go directly to the moon.
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And on the right hand side it takes me to 11 documents images. Whatever we have available, it pulls it out.
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And I can quickly jump to.
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One of those documents.
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Alright. Let me know if you have any questions.
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I want to go into our next resource and show you a few more tools.
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And that is Gale In Context: High School. Let me close some of these out up here.
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And look at the I do want to point these out. See how high school is in the in context family, where high school addition is periodical because it says Gale, one file high school addition. We get asked that a lot. What's the difference in context is going to be more of that rich multimedia. It's going to be organized with topic pages as I've been sharing with you with your other in context, resources.
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Where high school edition is periodical.
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So it's strictly focusing on magazines, academic journals.
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And that's its focus. And it looks different, too. Let me share that with you. So you can see very different. It is again looking at the publications.
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Periodical publications, sorry periodical.
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Where high school, Gael in context, high school.
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Looks like this, like our other in context, resources.
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So gone are the images because we, these are high schoolers. So now we have more texts, all the topic pages beginning of the month. So you're going to see a lot of updated tags or new. We have a brand new one here.
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That are available.
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In this resource. Let's actually go into advanced search. So let's build a little bit more of your knowledge.
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This time we're going to go to advanced search.
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And I want to focus on the primary sources that we have available. Now, advanced search can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be.
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It's very easy to use. Our high schoolers should be, especially our 11th and 12th graders. Be utilizing this because they will be using it at the higher ed level. I even have had some higher Ed accounts.
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Take their students right into advanced search.
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Within their gale resources, because you can set it up that way.
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I love the top, the home pages, because there's so much great information there.
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Even in our literature resources, which that's where I saw it was a lit resource, and they were missing. All this great information on the homepage.
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So when I did the training, I showed it to him. They're like, Wait, what is that? So? Just know that some of our higher Ed folks do take students right into advanced search.
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I'm going to go down to content type. And we're going to focus on primary sources right here.
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I'm just going to select that I'm not going to put in any other information, because I want to share with you.
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Search. Through this we have almost 4,000 primary sources available within Gale In Context:. High school.
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Now, at this point I can filter my results. So I wanted to teach you about the filter your results by publication date. Now, these are primary sources, so I don't know of publication. Date would be the route. I would go
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I actually prefer for primary sources or any social studies or history type topics using document type, you have subject and publication title laxer. There's those content levels. So if I wanted to filter this down, I could.
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And then use my get link tool. So.
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I don't know that I have a ton of level threes, because this is a high school resource. But let's see level threes and fours.
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I'm going to apply that content level.
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If I wanted to share this in my public library directly, taking students to primary sources.
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That are at the middle school and high school reading level. Only I can do that.
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And use my get link, tool, get. Link provides a persistent URL back to any spot. It could be a topic page like I've already shown you.
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Those topic pages right? It could be filtered results as we've done here. Or it could just be simply a document at the document level.
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Now I can add additional.
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Filters like document type, which is one of my favorites to do.
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I can add letters.
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Diary entries, and apply those.
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And now that's what I'm seeing in my results. So I've taken 4,000 down to 291.
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Let's take a look at this 1st one. This is a letter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman.
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You see, this starts with a commentary, and then it goes actually into that primary source.
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And if I wanted to share a link back to this.
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Particular article.
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I could just use the get link tool, and it would take me right back to this letter.
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Or I can download or print it off or send it directly to my Google drive onedrive email.
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That lives underneath the paper airplane up here.
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My citations are attached, but my citation tool is here also very intuitive.
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You can change the format, choose where you'd like to export it to so very intuitive information.
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Something else I want to point out to you is our panel.
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Explore panel is fantastic for supplemental information so similar to we have the hyperlinked.
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Articles so additional articles related.
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To either. What we're on. This is a letter. And Marilyn, specifically. But you're also going to find this great supplemental information here.
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This more like this panel.
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Lot of times students are tasked with finding 3 different. Maybe it's brief articles.
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To support their writing or their project that they're working on. And this is a great way to direct them. If they're coming into your library and working with you, looking for homework. Help.
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Have them use this explore panel and not just look over it because it's related to. It's supplemental to the article they're on. So.
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They're looking for 3 on similar topics. This will be really helpful to them.
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And the last feature I want to share with you. And then we're going to jump into one more time. We should be okay with one more resource here.
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I can click and drag over any chunk of text.
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This text box up. It's my highlights and notes, so I can mark up this document. I can add in any notes.
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Save it. And now I can send this.
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To Google Microsoft, onedrive or print, and it will remain marked up.
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Plus over here. See my highlights and notes.
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This is being built out. This is session based.
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So my highlights and notes. I only added one thing there.
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I have what I like to call digital notes.
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So you have these digital notes, and you can send just these.
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To Google Microsoft email or print.
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One more resource I want to go into. Let me know if you have any questions.
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Possibly. I don't know if I can squeeze both in, but I do want to talk to you about your ebook collection real quick.
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Just a few things here. So your ebooks again, this is the Washington State Library. What they have available, what they provided for you. You may have additional available.
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You can see on the left hand side. I have the subject categories for me.
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If I wanted to say, Go, I want to point out a couple things to you. One. Let's go into science. You do have these enhanced collections available.
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What it means by enhanced means that there's actually video content within this ebook.
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So I wanted to point those out. You have these great enhanced, available.
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Even under social science you have 26 titles.
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You see, this one is full of. You have some encyclopedias. Here's some of those in enhanced titles that you have available.
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So let's say, maybe I'm interested in.
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Immigration of America in America.
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And it takes me 1st to my table of contents.
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But look here, I have the list of all videos. So if I was curious as to what video content I did have available.
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I can go to from that table of contents. I can jump to my list of videos that I have available.
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I have the ability to go right into the book and view the ebook.
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Which I'm going to do that first.st Let me see.
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Where it'll take me.
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Okay. So it takes me right to chapter one.
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It jumped over all of my.
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Publication, information and.
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Any acknowledgements, table contents that jumped over all of that. But this is the bookview.
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There's a difference between book view. And then, if you look up here, text view, I still have my table of contents.
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So I can go to another area if I needed to, or another chapter.
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My book view. I can view this in a whole screen.
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I can view this double page.
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And it is literally.
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The Pdf. Of in A, in a ebook format.
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Of my printbook.
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If I wanted to download this.
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I could download it.
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Now some of these, especially with our ebooks, we have the original source information. So you're going to find with that original source.
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Download won't be just a text. Pdf, it'll be the actual ebook pages.
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Now text view.
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Right up here in the contextual toolbar.
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When I click on text view.
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I still will have images, but now I have all of my tools to support accessibility.
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So if I do need to translate this, I can.
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Or if I want to send it to my Google drive, I can.
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And then you have your explore panel, too.
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So again, that's just simply changing it from text.
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To book. Both options are available when you're in your Gale ebooks.
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Alright. So that's all I wanted to point out in that resource.
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And then we have to jump back into our Powerpoint.
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But I'm going to go for it. I'm going to take.
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10 seconds of your time, and just talk to you about Litfinder.
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Because I can't. This resource has all those same tools and features, but it also has term frequency available.
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And let's say, if I'm looking for.
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Nikki, Giovanni.
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It takes you right into the primary sources and literary work. So you can see. Here is written by Nikki Giovanni. I have all of her full text.
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It could be her if it her poems. You can see where they're coming from. Publication. Wise.
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But it pulls it right out. We also have abstracts here.
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So those are also available. I know our public libraries and higher ed libraries like to have that available to their researchers for students. They're going to be more interested in your full text documents. But it takes you right to the primary sources and literary works. I also have biographies, topic and work overviews multimedia available.
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If I'm looking at topic and work overviews, I'm interested in explanation of Knoxville, Tennessee.
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Something I want to point out. This is coming from our contemporary collection.
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Is at the bottom. You're going to find maybe some related information that's hyperlinked out.
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So keep that in mind. If you're highlighting or showing any of this.
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Type of information within Litfinder.
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That you have scroll down because there might be more linked information.
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I might want to be able to go. This is the explanation.
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Or I can go directly to the biography of Nikki Giovanni. So lots of information available there.
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Within litfinder, even from just one simple document that I was on.
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Alright! Where can you go for additional support? That is your Gale support site and your Gale customer success managers.
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Your Gale support site, and this is what I posted in the chat.
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This link at the top will take you to all of your direct Urls.
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All of your titleists and mark records and database icons. You can find all that information on the support site.
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You just need to find your library from the Dropdown menu, and then the Urls. That will be.
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That you'll see on your page next after you select your library.
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Will be all of your direct Urls that you can put on your library website.
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If you'd like to walk through your Gale support site on the next slide, I'll share with you your Gale customer success managers.
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In the training center. You have tip sheets and tutorials and recorded webinars training decks. Also, this is where you're going to find all kinds of great student activities, such as escape rooms and tick toe. You can see here, here's an escape room that we've created for middle school. We also have information on Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare. So lots of great things to go along with your library programming.
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I know escape rooms are trending right now in our public libraries, which is really fun for students.
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To get to know the resources, but also what's available in their library. So you can utilize. We also have a template available. If you'd like to make your own, but we have one for element, 2 for elementary middle school and high school. So we have 2 for each. Now.
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That are ready to go, and then also templates available.
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We have the training toolkit.
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For each of your resources, which is a click sheet that's curated all of our training materials. And then marketing materials, as you're seeing here.
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We have marketing materials, like bookmarks and posters and email templates, and so much more.
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To connect with us. My name, again is Tammi Burke. I'm a senior trainer at Gale, and my contact information will be in your follow up email.
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You also can connect with your Gale customer success managers. They're the ones that I mentioned before. They are your one on one support, and all things. Gale, just send an email. Let them know what type of library or what library you're coming from, and they can help.
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And then also they will be that contact. Information will be in my follow up email.
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Tech support is also available if you need them, if you have any questions, and then the survey should pop up when you leave. If you could click continue, I would love to get your feedback in that comment section. I also share it internally and with our folks at the Washington State Library. Sometimes our States will ask for that survey information. They need it for their reports.
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It's anonymous. So please feel free to leave that feedback. It really helps us out.
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And then I already talked about the support site. So that wraps our session. Thanks everyone for your time today. Thanks for taking time out of your day. You have any questions. I will stay on at the end of today's training and answer those. Continue to answer those questions until you have asked them all. So thanks. Everyone have a great rest of your day. I do see a question that came through thanks. Session. Yes, this session was recorded.
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Absolutely. Please feel free to pass it to your colleagues. Ken watch for the follow up email. You'll find a link to where you can find that recording, but honestly, you'll find it here.
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See the support link here.
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This is exactly where you'll find it on the on the support site that I shared in the chat.
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If you go to the training section you'll see we have a library of Washington State.
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Library. Sessions that I've already facilitated, so you'll find them all recorded and listed there, so you can easily share that with your colleague, and thank you for sharing with that colleague. How soon will it be available.
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I will post it there soon.
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Just. I have another meeting I have to jump into, but I will post it there soon, so you will see it very shortly. But definitely the email that you receive. It'll be 24 h before you receive that. How soon do you need it? Ken? Let me know.
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I'm going to stop this recording. Thanks. Everyone.