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Last Updated: September 21, 2022

For CA: Engaging Young Science Learners with National Geographic Kids

Tune into this recorded webinar to get familiar with Gale Presents: National Geographic Kids and its refreshed look! We shared tips for finding what you need and ways to share with students and patrons. Audience: PK–12 | All Administrators, Teachers, Instructional Coaches, TOSAS, and Library Staff – Public Libraries | Children’s Library Staff

Duration: 30 Minutes
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All right. Hello and welcome everybody.

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I'm Stacey Knibloe your Gale trainer

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for California. Glad to be

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with you to take a look at our

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uh National Geographic Resource.

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Uh We have a good amount of time to cover

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what we want. So do feel free to use the chat,

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the Q. And A. If you want

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to make sure there's anything I'm gonna cover

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or uh of course I have any questions.

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I am happy to take those

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along the way. Uh Or of course

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right now so

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let's talk a little bit we want

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to uh in this session our

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engaging young science learners with National

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Geographic Kids is give you a quick

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resource refresher. So this has been

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available for a little while but I just want to remind

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you what's there and then really we're gonna spend

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most of our time in the resource. We had

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a release this summer that updated the

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interface, added some new tools

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uh and we really wanted to provide.

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just a little info on uh what's new

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but also make sure you're comfortable with all the tools

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that are that are already there and are aware

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of all the content and how you can put it to

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work in the library in the classroom.

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We'll also talk about sharing content

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from the resource getting in front of students

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and other learners. Uh and always

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and as always we'll wrap up with the support

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you can receive from Gale when you've got

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questions about any of these resources,

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So again just to kind of make

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sure I hit the things you want to see, feel

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free to make use of the chat, you should

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be able to send me chats now.

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I think it might have been disabled earlier in the session

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zoom seems to be resetting that every

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time I start a webinar. So

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um feel free to send me a chat there or

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use the uh Q. And a tool and I'm

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happy to uh make sure I cover

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anything you want to see. This is really your session

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And the resources um

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that National Geographic is a part of

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come to you through the California, K-12

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online content project and

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you can of course access the resources there but

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we have set up access for each school

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district and public library in California.

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Uh again I'm gonna share our, you know, support

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when we wrap up.

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you can generate your access U. R. L. S. And

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get lots of other good stuff on our support site.

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Uh The nice thing about these resources is

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they're all geo

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authenticated meaning if they

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know you're in California, they just

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let you in. No need for passwords

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or library card numbers or anything.

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Um We can also set up off the other authentication

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methods if uh there are ones that

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interest your institution. Uh But

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G. O. Is uh kind of our default

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for our California resources.

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and of course one of those is National Geographic

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Kids. So kind of an evergreen tool.

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Uh One of the librarians I work with

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always likes to say you never outgrow National

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Geographic Kids. Um and I think that's

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true, it's great content.

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Um You of course have the magazine and the

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collection and we have that going back to

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2009. So you can browse past

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issues um and of course find

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content to help support uh research

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and instruction. You also

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have over 200 videos for National

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Geographic, a great kind of starting point

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grab kids attention. Uh if they're

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more kind of visual learners, you've

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got over 650 full text

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eBooks and the collection as well published

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by Nat Geo

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and over 900 downloadable.

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Images, which is nice. Um The uh

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content from Net of course is

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outstanding. Um and they are

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very protective of it, we'll talk about it uh that

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a little bit more when we get into the resource too. But

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those downloadable images are

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really handy because it's not generally something they

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like to do. So we're pleased to be able to offer

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those.

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This resource has unlimited use

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so you can get in there and use it as much as you like.

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The magazine. The eBooks are

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all kind of varied reading levels. We'll

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talk a bit more about that too when we get in there.

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Uh But it's available to everybody at your

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school. So if you've got an eighth grader you wanna put in

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this resource, they of course have

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have access to it. You have an adult you want to put

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in this resource, everybody's got access.

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So

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with that let's go ahead and take a look at the new

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interface. It is. Um

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something that released this summer and it just

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happened automatically. There was no need

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for um our uh libraries

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or schools to do anything. It just launched

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uh with some enhancements and again

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here's that California K 12 online pro

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content project page and can

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see the G resources Britannic,

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all of their uh digital resources available

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over here on the right, you can always get them from there.

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However, I'm not coming to you from California

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so the geo authentication won't work for me. I've

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gone ahead and just launched our menu

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here so I can get into the Resource

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So the home page has

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a different look and feel but

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really what's there hasn't changed. The

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home page of really most

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scale resources are there to give

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you a chance to dive right in with a search

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when you know your topic and you're off and running

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but also wants to encourage discovery.

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So we give you some browse options here. You can

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browse some magazine articles

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that our editors have chosen to highlight.

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You can browse some book content

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videos, pictures, just

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things to grab attention. We usually change

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the home page out every month or so

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just to give um you know a fresh

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look at content uh for users who are

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in here often. Uh But it's a great

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way too to just kind of realize what's

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here. The home page is showing

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you, you've got the magazine, you've got books, you've got videos

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and so on. So it's a nice reinforcement

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if you're not familiar with the resource to kind

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of get to know what's here.

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Uh So we are gonna dive right in with

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a search and then we'll talk about some of the

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new features and working with results.

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Uh We're gonna come back to the home page and browse a little

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bit though there are a few tips I want to share for

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uh our teacher librarians, our librarians,

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our teachers um that may

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uh they may find candy. So let's dive in

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right though, let's say we've got a student who

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uh is uh maybe a first, you

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know, , researching an animal.

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And they're gonna go with sea

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tour toles.

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So sending your search out

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is gonna look across all of the different types

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of content in the resource

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and like most of our databases

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we break down the content

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by

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the types of sources it's coming

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from. So you'll see here across

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the top. We used to do this down the left hand

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side in the previous interface. Now we've

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just pushed it to the top, you can get a quick

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summary of how many hits you have.

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And again, where they're coming from. So we find

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of course magazine articles, books,

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videos, pictures, magazine covers,

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even which is something special.

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We do for national geographic content.

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They are generally so uh recognizable

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by covers. They kind of stick. If I jump

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down a bit we can see those. So basically

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what I did was find any covers that had sea turtles

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on them. Uh so I Oh yes, that's

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the issue I wanted and I can dive right in.

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So something kind of fun with the magazine

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covers,

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but really the good stuff kind of appears

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uh well it's all good stuff. Uh but the

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uh the content you might be using if you're writing an animal

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report is probably gonna appear up top. So

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magazine articles, books and so on are all

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kind of how we get started.

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and

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you'll see over on the right, you have the ability

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to filter your results so you can choose

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things like subjects person

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by or about if it should be you

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know need it for that result. Uh document

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type, this kind of thing you can really

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filter in but it is

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a smaller collection so that's there

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if you need it. But generally we find with

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National Geographic Kids you can kind of jump right into

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your results

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uh the magazine, let's go ahead and take a look

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closer look at these. So we show just a couple

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quick thumbnail views of the first three

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results. If I click on more kids magazine

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or even just the header here,

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I'll jump right it and can view all 60 of

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those articles,

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and again you get the thumbnail view of the pages

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where your articles are on. Um So some

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of them we can see like this first one art

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zone I can see there's you know an image of a of

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a turtle there. That's why I got this one back. So you

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kind of these visual cues

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but we are sorting by newest articles.

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So you get kind of the newest contact first

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which you know, typical, you're looking at science things. Science

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related is a good thing.

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Uh, but what we can also do is there's

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a sort by option,

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uh above our results. So I could change

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that and you know, depending on your search,

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you may need that trick in in your pocket.

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So I'm gonna go ahead and choose relevance in

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this case. And what it will do is just kind of push

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my sea turtle articles up to the top

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I also filtering by subjects could

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have done the same thing. So she's usually more than one

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way to do things in our resources.

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But now I can kind of see these articles that are

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all about sea turtles right up to

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the top of my page,

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and one of the uh ways

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that we work with National Geographic

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is to stay true to

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their original publications. So

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with all of the magazines the books

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you're gonna actually view it like you would if

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you've taken it off the shelf and are flipping through

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it. Two page view. It's kind

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of like we're working with a P. D. F. Here, everything's

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been scanned. Um Of course they do

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a really nice job with that. Um Really

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high quality scans uh And

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it just mimics what you would have in the print experience.

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And we find the end users like that as

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well. You know, the act of kind of flipping through the

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magazine, flipping through a book. We've got that here.

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And we did update the viewer

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that we're using here. It is uh, it works

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better with different accessibility tools. So

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if you're using screen reader or

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or other kind of browser tools, um, to

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reach every learner. This new interface,

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not only the viewer, but just other changes

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we make kind of upped our um, compliance

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with different accessibility tools.

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Um, we have more details on that on our website.

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Actually, if you scroll to the bottom, let me go back

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out uh, to the results here. If you

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scroll to the bottom of most of our pages,

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there's a link out to our accessibility

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statement

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right at the bottom of the page. Plus you can get

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to our V. A. Directory. So if you really need

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to get into the weeds on accessibility

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we've got a lot of great content here. And then of course

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you can always reach out to the Gale team.

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Um But let's jump back into the article

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here. So

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the viewer allows um

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for a lot of kind of um, interaction

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with the uh, with the images,

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we have the arrows over here on the right and left,

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so I can flip through it or I on

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a um

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uh, touch screen, I'd be able to actually

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flip to swipe my finger and slip uh, swipe

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the pages through.

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Uh, you also have tools, let me just

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go ahead and circle them embedded

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right in the images to let you interact

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with them. So no separate toolbar

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or anything.

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And really my favorite of these

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is this kind of four co four

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corners icon. What that's

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gonna do. It may look familiar, it's often

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used

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to switch into full screen mode.

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So we can have the magazine kind of take over

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our screen and instead of

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getting you know all of the database

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headers and other stuff,

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I just get the magazine right. I've got the

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arrows to navigate through it. I have a plus

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and a minus here to zoom in or out.

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I need to I want to get a closer look at this.

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Um uh wrinkle butt,

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uh

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uh turtle, I can zoom

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right in,

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I can zoom back out and then we

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do have a text to speech tool

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and it is working

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with the text that's kind of behind the scenes

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so we can go ahead and turn that

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on

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slippery swimmers. The idea that

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sea turtles are plotting and ungraceful

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proves untrue. As soon as biologist,

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my house tries to catch a three ft

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long, £350

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go stop though. Uh,

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but great tool to be able to again reach

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more learners if we have kids who are maybe

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absorbed more when they're listening rather than reading,

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you've got that that tool as well.

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All right so the full screen would be really handy

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but let me go back to the database view,

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And I'll show you some other tools here.

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So over on the left, we

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have um, basically

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the details around the article. I can open

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up the table of contents and

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actually get to the whole issue

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because again, it's staying true to the print.

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What it did was really just opens us up

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to

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this sea turtle article in this issue.

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If I go back another page, you'll see. We're actually

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in the magazine. So this is the previous o article

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about Otters.

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So the table of contents here just lets you browse

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through that whole magazine if you'd like or get

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back to where you need to be.

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You can search within the article,

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it's also gonna show you where your search term

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hits are. So of course this whole article

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is about sea turtles. Uh so,

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you know, all pages mention it,

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but this can be handy if you are, you

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know, maybe there's just a mention of sea turtles in another

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article about, you know, uh marine

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life or something. We can zero in on that

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then there's a quick dictionary look up. We're

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using Merriam Webster's uh, kids dictionary

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here. So you can pull a term maybe from the article

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and search here.

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and then our full citation for the

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article. So what issue is it coming from

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the author? All of those things kids would need

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if they were going to, you know, build a work

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cited uh page or bibliography,

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although we have another trick in our book for that.

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Let me go ahead. And

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point it out here,

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our site tool actually builds

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a citation for students.

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So of course this is always important in research.

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We want to know where we got, you know,

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our information.

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And the site tool uses four

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different citation styles M L A

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a p a Chicago and Harvard

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that I could just copy and paste and put right

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in my bibliography. So depending

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on the age of the user you're working with,

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you know, especially in elementary school, they may

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not be familiar with these specific styles

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yet, but they can build their citations

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from the full citation over there on the left. But if

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we're working with say 1/7 grader, you

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know, this might be something they're starting to learn about

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different styles. May have particular needs from

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uh, the classroom, uh, around

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styles. They can pull this,

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put it right through their bibliography or export

[00:14:05.484]
out to these tools here, like noodle tools,

[00:14:07.585]
easy bib and so on.

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And so really handy make it easy

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for them to cite their sources.

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Now I mentioned before, we are a little

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limited. Um, there are some restrictions

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that Nat Geo places on us,

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you'll notice really. The only thing we can do

[00:14:23.538]
with this article aside from of course reading it on

[00:14:25.619]
the screen is print it, it's gonna give

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you the option to print now

[00:14:29.769]
by default it is printing the

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whole issue, so you can just change

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that to the pages of the article. So this one

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starts on page 24

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and I think it went through, I think it was that whole

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next page too. So what

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a page. Uh let's see, that would be 27

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I can print just those pages. It'll give you a preview,

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like a P. D. F. Preview so you can make sure that's

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what you want.

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Um But printing is really our only option.

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Unfortunately we can't download the magazine

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or book content, we can't email it,

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we can really only print it.

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So just something that's a little different.

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Your other databases typically don't have that restriction.

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Um But again Nat Geo is

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uh you know very protective of its content.

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Um So we are uh

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uh limiting the retrieval options

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as we would call them here

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All right. So there's a look at some of our results

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for uh the mega. Well actually we just looked

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at one. Let me jump back out to the results, but all of

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our articles are going to mimic the same format.

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So if I jump into the second one again,

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the two page view, the viewer

[00:15:31.700]
tools here and here, over

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on the left, the arrows to move between

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And it can again you know kind of get

[00:15:39.969]
to the entire issue from here so

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we can move through

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some of the puzzles things like that.

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so I'm gonna move over to book content

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and I'm just gonna do that by using the

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header up here at the top.

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and we've got a few different books. Now.

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I'm going to in the chat kind of while

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I talk about this, load up

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a title list for um,

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National Geographic Kids because it

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gives you

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the uh

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reading level for all of the books

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that are in

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this resource,

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we can't see them here.

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in the results. There we go. I just uploaded

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it. Um We can't see a reading level

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here but the covers of the book sometimes

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are you know just a good indicator, you can see the reader

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number. Um or you

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know something that looks more like a picture book versus

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you know a middle reader or something like that.

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So covers can be you know kind of a visual

[00:16:38.428]
queue. But that title list will give

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you a much more uh specific

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reading level uh and grade level

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for each of the books in the collection

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And like our other

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Um Meg or like our magazine viewer. The

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book viewer is actually gonna work the same way

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here. We've pulled the book off the shelf

[00:16:56.940]
and hold in our hands, looking at the cover,

[00:16:59.509]
we can open up and we've got everything,

[00:17:01.779]
the cover pages, the copyright

[00:17:04.269]
info, all of that.

[00:17:05.709]
Again, over on the left, we'll have a table

[00:17:07.779]
of content. So if I want to, you know, maybe

[00:17:09.789]
move forward in the book and read about how

[00:17:11.959]
uh sea turtles build their nests.

[00:17:15.068]
I can just jump to that section,

[00:17:18.789]
and again, these are nice scans.

[00:17:21.088]
So sometimes you'll see it are a little spinner kind

[00:17:23.309]
of working on that for a minute. Uh It takes

[00:17:25.858]
a little time sometimes to load out, but

[00:17:28.078]
again, high quality stuff

[00:17:31.068]
So I have an entire book here about sea turtles

[00:17:35.368]
and we can check out some of our other results too.

[00:17:37.529]
We've got some video content.

[00:17:39.858]
Uh, and again, pictures

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and these are downloadable, so

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I can just do a right mouse click

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copy and paste that image.

[00:17:49.000]
Um, or save it

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You're able to work with over 9000,

[00:17:53.789]
downloadable images in the collection.

[00:17:58.449]
So when you're searching, it kind of brings

[00:18:00.568]
you across the resource,

[00:18:04.309]
Let's try another one. Say here on the water cycle.

[00:18:07.759]
And it looks like we've got some magazine hits, some

[00:18:09.900]
books.

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Ok. And I did want to highlight the video

[00:18:14.140]
content. So these are typically

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um you know, less than about five minutes

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long automatically. We have

[00:18:20.769]
the closed captioning turned on, we

[00:18:22.789]
display a broadcast transcript.

[00:18:25.400]
Uh But let's go ahead and let me

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unmute this so you can hear it.

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326 million cubic

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miles.

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that's how much water there is enough.

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But that can make a nice introduction

[00:18:38.449]
to a topic. It can again engage

[00:18:40.949]
the users, particularly the younger viewers

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with uh with video content. And

[00:18:45.348]
of course because it's N. G. O. You're working

[00:18:47.410]
with great uh great videos

[00:18:49.739]
now let's say I want to kick off

[00:18:51.920]
a lesson about the water cycle around

[00:18:54.689]
um this video

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I want to send my students to it.

[00:18:58.358]
There are a few different ways I can do that.

[00:19:00.719]
One is by using our get

[00:19:03.269]
link tool, get link

[00:19:05.338]
up here in the toolbar. Same place we saw the site

[00:19:07.759]
tool of the print option.

[00:19:10.410]
This will let me

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Sorry, let me get rid of my drawings here. So I can actually

[00:19:14.400]
click it. Get link will give

[00:19:16.529]
me a persistent U. R. L. Or

[00:19:18.568]
pearl to go along

[00:19:20.689]
with this video. And this

[00:19:22.890]
is just A U. R. L. So I can put

[00:19:24.930]
it wherever I would normally put A U. R. L.

[00:19:27.390]
Embed it on a web page,

[00:19:29.469]
Put it in uh

[00:19:31.650]
You know they've got some sort of learning management system

[00:19:34.049]
like canvas or

[00:19:36.209]
um oh shoot what's the there's a new one

[00:19:38.618]
well new to me seesaw uh one

[00:19:40.680]
I'm hearing more and more about for younger kids.

[00:19:43.640]
You can put these links wherever a link would normally

[00:19:46.108]
go and when someone clicks it,

[00:19:48.199]
they land right here in the database

[00:19:50.250]
on this video. They don't have to

[00:19:52.699]
you know find the database,

[00:19:54.799]
find the right video and then view it,

[00:19:56.890]
they're there in one click

[00:19:58.529]
so get link is really powerful. It

[00:20:00.588]
lets you put your users right

[00:20:02.598]
where you want them and you're gonna see it more often

[00:20:04.880]
than not. It's here in individual documents.

[00:20:07.328]
But if I go back out to my results,

[00:20:09.368]
it's on this page as well. So I could

[00:20:11.618]
I could use the Git link for this page and

[00:20:13.769]
send students to it.

[00:20:15.390]
If I'm in the public library and I know,

[00:20:17.549]
you know they're working on the watch cycle. I want to help

[00:20:19.719]
support research. I can put this on

[00:20:21.900]
our web page again. I'm working

[00:20:24.410]
you know in the library as a teacher librarian.

[00:20:26.529]
I want to push this out to the third grade

[00:20:28.729]
teachers because I know they're gonna be covering water cycle

[00:20:30.828]
this year again get link

[00:20:33.130]
is a really powerful way to put folks right

[00:20:35.640]
in your library resources

[00:20:37.809]
right where you want them.

[00:20:41.000]
So let me just check the chat and Q and a

[00:20:43.049]
see if anything's come in so far.

[00:20:46.380]
It's like

[00:20:47.209]
we're in good shape. So I want to show you

[00:20:49.299]
a few more things here

[00:20:51.959]
I'm gonna jump back to that home page and show

[00:20:54.088]
you some of the browse tools because of course

[00:20:56.449]
most of our end users are gonna search,

[00:20:58.559]
you know, they know what they're after. I

[00:21:00.699]
like the browse though for discovery.

[00:21:02.750]
You know, finding something interesting. We actually

[00:21:05.019]
have found that

[00:21:06.910]
Average session time and our Nat Geo

[00:21:08.979]
database is about twice that of

[00:21:11.009]
our other databases folks just get caught up

[00:21:13.108]
in the content.

[00:21:14.328]
Um But it's also handy for you to know kind

[00:21:16.630]
of to know what's here. So

[00:21:18.670]
I loaded that title list for the eBooks

[00:21:21.019]
and actually when you're on the home page, if

[00:21:23.199]
you click into the books

[00:21:25.469]
into the browse, you get all

[00:21:27.549]
of them and you can browse right here

[00:21:29.568]
and see what's you know basically on the electronic

[00:21:31.890]
shelf. This is where the filter

[00:21:34.150]
tool can come in handy. So if I open up subjects,

[00:21:37.150]
I want animal books, I want marine animal

[00:21:39.328]
books, I want dogs, lots of lots of animal

[00:21:41.529]
content and that geo I want animal

[00:21:43.910]
rescue, I want holidays

[00:21:45.989]
just to click and it'll filter

[00:21:48.400]
and show you the results that go along with that.

[00:21:51.559]
and then if you want to keep browsing, I can just x

[00:21:53.739]
out holidays and go back

[00:21:55.959]
to subjects. Maybe I'm looking for things relating

[00:21:58.098]
to space,

[00:21:59.959]
and I can

[00:22:01.390]
again, filter

[00:22:04.598]
and then of course you've got

[00:22:07.519]
you know, the viewer. Again, you can just flip through

[00:22:09.699]
the book

[00:22:11.380]
So I wanna share this is more of a picture

[00:22:13.640]
book. Wait, let me actually get in a few pages

[00:22:15.680]
here.

[00:22:17.189]
and we'll uh

[00:22:19.729]
can kind of get a look at some of the text.

[00:22:28.289]
a little bit further in. But I think there's

[00:22:30.348]
gonna be this seems to be more of a picture book.

[00:22:32.630]
I just guessing from the cover. Uh

[00:22:34.868]
But yeah not a ton of texts but some

[00:22:36.959]
good facts. I want to start maybe here with

[00:22:39.380]
third or fourth graders Again

[00:22:41.459]
get link and drop them right into the book

[00:22:46.618]
Now I could also

[00:22:49.068]
use another tool to drop

[00:22:51.150]
them right here. Gatling is a little

[00:22:53.400]
more manual. It's universal.

[00:22:55.799]
You can take a U. R. L. Practically anywhere

[00:22:57.809]
but it's on the you know, user to kind of put

[00:23:00.019]
it where they want it

[00:23:01.660]
one of the new features we added with the

[00:23:03.848]
release this summer

[00:23:06.118]
is our shared a google classroom

[00:23:08.338]
tool.

[00:23:09.880]
So if you're already a google classroom user

[00:23:12.239]
that might, that icon might look familiar,

[00:23:14.469]
what it's gonna do is just

[00:23:16.500]
start me down the path to posting

[00:23:19.660]
to my google classroom stream.

[00:23:22.049]
So it pops up this little wizard

[00:23:24.189]
like tool

[00:23:25.519]
shared a classroom, where do I want to put

[00:23:27.598]
this? I'm gonna put it in Ms Knibloe fourth grade classroom,

[00:23:31.338]
and I'm gonna create an assignment out of

[00:23:33.479]
it, click go. And what we've

[00:23:35.618]
done here is if I open this

[00:23:37.680]
up a little more you'll see. It's just embedding

[00:23:39.900]
that get link U. R. L.

[00:23:42.449]
and forgive my very brief

[00:23:44.539]
instructions here I assign it.

[00:23:47.170]
It works for a minute. it's posted

[00:23:49.368]
to my class

[00:23:51.358]
and my students will see this pop

[00:23:53.459]
up in the classroom stream

[00:23:55.779]
and it sometimes takes a minute for

[00:23:57.838]
that link to show up on the page here.

[00:23:59.848]
I'm a little impatient, so I'm gonna jump right to class

[00:24:02.160]
work so we can see it but there it is

[00:24:04.309]
embedded

[00:24:05.719]
and with one click

[00:24:07.539]
they land on that book.

[00:24:09.799]
Hi. So fully

[00:24:12.199]
integrated with google classroom and

[00:24:14.729]
we can uh talk about other

[00:24:16.769]
L. M. S options here in a minute uh because

[00:24:19.088]
I can't quite demonstrate those on the right from

[00:24:21.140]
here but I do want to mention those so we'll

[00:24:23.209]
come back.

[00:24:24.328]
Uh talk about that.

[00:24:26.410]
Oh whoops, I'm in the wrong pages here

[00:24:28.930]
Mhm. So

[00:24:31.029]
the last thing I wanted to share

[00:24:33.420]
again is just some more of the browsing options.

[00:24:35.689]
So if I jump back to the home page again we can browse

[00:24:38.108]
all of the videos, all of the pictures,

[00:24:40.469]
those are both in the title list too.

[00:24:42.910]
So you can you know see the list there

[00:24:44.930]
or you can of course pull them right from the browse

[00:24:46.949]
list. p

[00:24:49.318]
me, We also

[00:24:51.598]
have.

[00:24:53.430]
The ability to browse magazines

[00:24:55.568]
and oops I guess so I didn't make my circle quite big

[00:24:57.588]
enough explore topics here from

[00:24:59.729]
the toolbar on the home page and

[00:25:01.969]
the Browse magazines is exactly that you

[00:25:04.098]
can browse the issues that are in

[00:25:06.150]
in the resource. So again we go back to

[00:25:08.368]
2009.

[00:25:10.029]
and we do have a bit of an embargo. We have

[00:25:12.130]
to wait for National Geographic Kids magazine,

[00:25:14.650]
we have to wait 90 days from the

[00:25:16.660]
the date on the mass tad before we can include it

[00:25:18.719]
in the resource so you'll see a bit of a lag

[00:25:21.118]
here.

[00:25:22.108]
Uh But other than that we have all of these

[00:25:24.328]
issues so kids can just load up

[00:25:27.588]
the special forest issue and dive

[00:25:29.689]
right in and flip through it

[00:25:31.890]
and this is again the

[00:25:33.969]
whole magazine, everything is scanned

[00:25:36.019]
here. So if I open up the table of contents

[00:25:39.259]
I can get to say all the fun puzzles

[00:25:41.719]
and trivia and stuff like that. That's in every

[00:25:43.789]
issue. And again, you can always print

[00:25:45.979]
out from the content. So I could make maybe

[00:25:48.479]
a, you know, fun activity in the library

[00:25:50.979]
or maybe something in the classroom,

[00:25:53.769]
You know share some artwork uh that kids

[00:25:55.979]
have submitted. So you know you've got

[00:25:58.108]
the whole thing here, there's tons of great

[00:26:00.199]
content here,

[00:26:02.400]
and then the explore topics just is

[00:26:04.439]
more of a discovery tool, kind of hits the six

[00:26:06.519]
major areas that Nat Geo uh really,

[00:26:09.269]
you know, kind of specializes in and highlights

[00:26:11.719]
some of the content in this case relating to the environment.

[00:26:15.189]
So again just a nice discovery. If kids

[00:26:17.259]
have a choice maybe in what they're, you know researching.

[00:26:20.088]
This can be a fun way for them to find something too.

[00:26:22.410]
So really brows

[00:26:24.259]
uh resource. But

[00:26:26.368]
of course search is often

[00:26:28.479]
our favorite. So kids kind of dive in.

[00:26:30.489]
If I'm looking for manatee

[00:26:32.670]
is my favorite.

[00:26:34.049]
Can dive right in

[00:26:37.630]
So let me check the chat and the Q.

[00:26:39.709]
And A. And I think we're in good shape.

[00:26:41.969]
I want to talk to you about support and other learning

[00:26:44.170]
management systems. So I'm gonna pop back to the power

[00:26:46.608]
point here for a minute.

[00:26:48.039]
So we saw the google classroom integration.

[00:26:50.250]
This can also integrate into

[00:26:52.410]
tools like cannabis school

[00:26:54.299]
G. Blackboard um

[00:26:56.348]
with resources that are L.

[00:26:58.410]
T. I. At least one point. Oh compliant

[00:27:01.630]
You can actually embed the

[00:27:03.699]
content into the learning management

[00:27:06.059]
system. So the student doesn't even leave that

[00:27:08.140]
environment. They don't go out to the database.

[00:27:10.750]
The database kind of comes to them through

[00:27:13.039]
the L. M. S. So this is what this article

[00:27:15.338]
on dolphins would look like inside

[00:27:17.769]
uh an assignment or

[00:27:19.799]
uh um materials inside canvas

[00:27:22.160]
are school so it is

[00:27:24.189]
a great way to again kind of keep

[00:27:26.368]
them in the regular school environment

[00:27:28.489]
but bring this library content to

[00:27:30.500]
them. And the nice thing is it counts.

[00:27:32.969]
You get that usage uh counts

[00:27:35.529]
in your use reports on the databases

[00:27:37.809]
even if it comes to them through the L. M. S. So

[00:27:39.979]
that's what the L. T. I. Integration

[00:27:42.449]
uh really does for you. So you want

[00:27:44.608]
to know more about this, That's what I'm

[00:27:46.618]
gonna recommend you get in touch with your Gale team.

[00:27:48.848]
So let's talk a bit about support.

[00:27:51.519]
support dot Gale dot com slash

[00:27:53.680]
c. A. K. 12 will take

[00:27:55.890]
you to our custom support site for the California

[00:27:58.848]
uh statewide program that Gale is a part

[00:28:01.019]
of you can generate your access

[00:28:03.039]
U. R. L. S. You can get all of our database

[00:28:05.779]
icons. Mark records, things like that, the

[00:28:07.848]
title lists

[00:28:09.140]
um All of our training materials,

[00:28:11.180]
our free market. materials to help

[00:28:13.535]
you know boost usage. Lots of good

[00:28:15.674]
stuff out there. And the things like tutorials

[00:28:18.084]
are for the end users talk to them about

[00:28:20.114]
how to use the site tool, um how

[00:28:22.213]
to use get link, that type of thing. So some

[00:28:24.434]
good stuff to share with your teachers with students

[00:28:26.664]
with patrons. Um Lots

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of things you don't have to recreate the wheel. We've done

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a lot of the work

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And then of course when you've got questions, you can always

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reach out to your Gale team. Again, I'm your trainer.

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You'll get a follow up email from me tomorrow

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around this time. Uh That gives you

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all of this contact info, our support site,

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all of that. Um And you can

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feel free to reach out to me if I don't have the answer.

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I'm a librarian too. So I know where to go to get

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it. Um If you want to dig in on that learning

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management system uh integration,

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then your customer success manager is a good

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person to get to know. They really regardless

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are a good person to get to know at gale. They can

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help with usage questions, access

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database questions and

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they specialize by library type. So if you're in

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a K. 12 setting, that's who they work with all the

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time and can understand your challenges,

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same thing in a in a public library

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uh you can also reach out of course always to your

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Gale account rep, they're great, you

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know, they have font of information.

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and uh they have

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uh the ability usually to come visit you should

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you need that. So they're generally more local.

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Uh And then of course our tech support is available,

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you can get us at the 800 number. And tech

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support is option four on the phone menu.

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So if you're experiencing an issue or anything

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it's always I think good to talk to them right then

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when it's happening so I love the 800

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number but you can also get in touch with them via email

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uh and they'll get back to you as quickly as possible

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so no shortage of places

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to go for help. Don't suffer in silence. Do

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reach out when you've got questions or be

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bad for us.

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and with that I'll say thank you so much for tuning

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in today, I'm gonna stick around and see if there are

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any more questions. Uh But again

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keep an eye out for that email that will come to you around

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this time tomorrow with a follow up

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from the session. So

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uh thanks everybody for tuning in.

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I hope this was helpful and that the uh resource

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will come in handy to you, um certainly

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this school year, but really any time

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and that the improvements we made to it

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um work well for you and your users.

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Thanks everybody.
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