Duration: 45 Minutes
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Welcome to your training for discus. Today's session is optimizing your Gale Resources, a training guide for public libraries.
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My name is Tammy Burke. I'm your Gale Senior Trainer. And today if you have any questions, please feel free to use that Q&A box.
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It is open and available. We will be focusing on the resources you have available from discus and talk about how they can be utilized in your public libraries with your patrons.
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As public librarians you all wear a lot of hats you have patrons coming in that are like myself Just a general patron interested, maybe I'm interested in small business information.
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You also have students that are looking for homework help. Or homeschooled students and their parents. You also have academics, so higher ed students coming into your library.
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You have patrons like my parents that are coming into your library looking for support. And today my goal is for you all to see how these scale resources that you have access to from discus can be utilized in your public library and even with your programming.
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So we'll talk through some general ideas with these resources and talking about what to use and when to use it.
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And one's a good time to suggest the resource when you're working with your patrons.
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But I'll also talk about different programming ideas. And how they can be used and how the resources can be used with those programs.
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Our agenda for today will start with an overview of what to use one so you all know what you have available.
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And then we will be exploring content, specific content available in these resources. And I will also work in some of the features and the workflow tools.
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That you have available. So might as well bring those into the conversation also. Any questions feel free to ask me throughout the session, but I will leave you at the end of today's training with my contact information, but also your folks at discus.
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You've got a great support group there at Discus. So I'll provide you with their information just in case you weren't aware of it.
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And also, when I say support, we have a lot of great training materials available too. So I'll share that information with you.
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So as public libraries, it was shared with me with the great folks at Discus that you primarily use your own links.
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On your library websites to your Gil resources or to your discus resources. If you're not using those links you can always access through the Discus resource website here.
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I'm linking it out or sharing it here on the screen. And you can always utilize that.
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Website to access all of your discus resources. I will also share towards the end of today's training if you do want your direct URLs and you're not using them yet, where you can find them on your Gale support site.
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And again, I'll share the support help that you have available through discus, you can always contact those folks too.
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If you want to, you know, that one on one support, they are fantastic and can help you with all of your questions.
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So let's start about talking about what to use when with your discus resources that you have from Gale.
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The first one I want to talk to you about is Gale In Context Elementary. This is a great resource for homework help, but it's also great for homeschooling.
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I also like to link it to programming. So there's a lot of programming that happens in your libraries.
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Especially in the children's library, that this resource could truly support. It is for kindergarten through fifth grade students and you will find reading levels.
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For kindergartners through fifth grade students and all kinds of tools and features to where you can filter down to certain reading levels and share information.
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With your patrons coming into your library, providing access to this resource within your library and highlighting it.
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Maybe you're doing a programming on space. And you want, this is a great resource for nonfiction information on space.
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And we have topic pages and a topic tree that helps students navigate through this this database and find exactly what they're looking for but also we provide you with a get link option to where you can send folks directly to a specific spot within the resource.
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Not only that, but we have great tools to support accessibility such as the read aloud or text to speech feature that listen button.
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We also have the ability to translate the text into over 40 languages. This is also another great one and we're going to talk about this today but another great one when you are talking about readers theater.
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I don't know if you're doing any readers theater in your programming or events at your library, but there are a lot of great plays and you can use our highlights and notes feature when you're grabbing this information out of the resource or again share it with students but it is a great tool if you're looking for, okay, I need more plays for my readers theater.
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Where can I go? Go into Gale In Context Elementary. And looking for poetry, maybe you're doing poetry studies.
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We have great poetry available in Gale In Context Elementary. And so much more. Great geography.
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Information on science and social studies, animals is one of our most popular ones. So if you have read to a dog at your library, why not extend that learning with information on dogs?
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And that's going to be we're going to focus a little bit on that today when we're talking about this.
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Resource when I go live into the product.
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Another great resource for biographical information on people of interest is Gale in context biography. Are in context resources are very rich, multimedia, so you're going to find in this resource you'll find great biographical information.
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I think we have over 5,000 topic pages available. Topic pages are curated collections of information.
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On a specific topic. And so we have that type of information available within this resource. But we also have multimedia.
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So you're going to find images and videos and also audio files. So you may find an interview with a person of interest.
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Maybe connect this to if you're doing a book study and you want information on authors. That's that's kind of our focus today is looking at that.
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Information on authors, you're going to find great content available within this resource because it really covers from historical to contemporary.
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So and in its international
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So we are people around the globe. You're going to find information in Galing context biography.
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It's a great one for our middle school, the high school students, but it is.
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In our public libraries used by all of your patrons at all levels. You will find to even your higher ed students will find great content here.
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I myself as your general patron that comes into your library, love to dive into this resource. There's many times I'll maybe I'm watching a show on Netflix and there's a character that
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I want it.
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Will.
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That I want to explore more. This is a resource that I would turn to. So it's those, documentaries where I'm fine.
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Find more information or maybe I'm reading on the an historical fiction book. That's another one where I'll jump in.
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Into this resource.
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Find more information not only on the author but maybe on the character that existed in history for us. So just some ideas on how you can utilize this.
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We're going to talk about some fun ones today too and then do some advanced searching in this if you're looking maybe you're looking for memoirs.
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I'm gonna, we're gonna do a search and I'm gonna show you how to find that information.
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In a Gale In context biography. Another resource in the in context family is one that
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About hot topics with pro/con viewpoints and that is Gale In context opposing viewpoints. This is one of our most popular resources.
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It really does show you both sides of the issue. Some ways that this one is not necessarily thought about in public libraries but is utilized as business.
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If you're looking at a looking at
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Specific information, especially if they're
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Might be landing in this resource that could.
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In an academic journal or a newspaper magazine, that type of, we have great periodical content in our in context resources, but sometimes looking at it that way through this resource can be really helpful to small business owners or those looking to start a business.
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So that's a way that this resource hasn't been necessarily thought about. In your data
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Use.
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Within your library.
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Course it has a great, like I said, procons, social issues, hot topics you're going to find available within this resource.
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There's also You have a beautiful literature ebook series or I should say ebook collection when these are multiple You have multiple volumes in each of these collections.
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So you have 4 different collections with multiple volumes. So for drama for students, this is a great collection of ebooks that are looking at critical overviews of the most studied plays, themes, characters, and so much more.
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With our novels for students, it's critical overviews of novels but you're looking at plot and character, cultural and historical significance.
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Our poetry for students is POM analysis from all time periods, nations and cultures.
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And our short stories for students is our synopsis of story plot characters theme and themes author biographies criticisms and more.
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So these are obviously you can see for students so they're great for middle school used a lot at the high school level great for our higher ed students too but also can be utilized for your literary studies.
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So if you're doing a literary discussion group, and you're looking for some critical overviews.
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This is a great resource to turn to. You can also the drama for students if you're showing a movie.
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I know that happens a lot in libraries. Some libraries have this great option. Within their library they have that space where they're showing a movie.
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Look at our drama for students. How can you bring some of this into your programming? Can you link it out?
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You're adding this event. Can you add some links to additional content that might entice folks to show up.
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Come to your library, but also learn a little bit more. So extend that learning. Or an introductory to what you're about to study.
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So. Keep that in mind with that great literature collection, some different ideas and we'll talk a little bit more about that when we go live into the resource.
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One item that cross searches through everything but everything but Gale In Context Elementary. Elementary is just for our kindergarten through fifth grade students.
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So we keep that outside of power search. They really wouldn't use power search anyway. But if you wanted to cross search through your both of your in context and all of your e-books at one time, you can use Gale Power Search.
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So it's a great cross search tool that is available. And linked out on your discus website, but also you have a direct URL available for your own library if you would like to use that.
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The benefits of using those direct URLs are of course usage is one of the biggest ones. You're able to look at your usage reports.
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We, our usage dashboard is fantastic. You can pull very specific information. You can look at different reports.
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You can also pull, we have a word cloud you can put together. If you're looking at maybe usage from the last month, you want to build your collection out, you can see what information is being accessed.
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So our usage dashboard is a great tool. But you would need to be using your direct URLs for your library to benefit from that information.
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So. So keep all of that in mind. Getting a little bit of information about usage also. So with that, let's jump into our first resource and we are going to go into Gale In Context Elementary and I have to say this is one of my favorites.
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I was a former elementary school teacher. Many, many years ago, I've been training for a number of years now, but it is still near and dear to my heart and this it really is a great resource.
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For your K through 5 patrons that are coming in to your library looking for that support. I always think of my own children when we would go to the library when they were looking for we did a wax museum at this the schools a teacher did a wax museum in the students my one of my or all 3 of my kids went through this but they had to find biographical information and it was a challenge because every third grade
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classroom. Was doing the same wax museum. And guess what was gone? They had gave the kids a list.
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Of people of interest and everything was wiped out of our public libraries. So here we were, I had, you know, a few books I was able to get my hands on, but I was looking online and guess what they didn't have online?
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The open web information that was relevant for my child to do their own research. Wasn't that the reading level wasn't necessarily safe either because of maybe pop-up ads on the right hand side that would be showing up when we opened a website.
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So think of this resource in many different ways. But for those students that are coming in for that additional support, but also to go along with your programming that's happening in your library.
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So let me talk a little bit about some of the tools and features. You're seeing here. On this homepage.
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One feature that sometimes gets missed is turning the sound on and off. And what this is good for is navigating through the resource.
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So if I turn this sound on and let me make sure my volume is up nice and high here on my computer.
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Turn the sound on.
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Wherever I place my cursor, it'll read that text. Now this is different than the Listen button.
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The listen button is at when we're at the document level. I would not use this feature for that.
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But I would use it to to help me navigate through this resource. The majority of our students that are accessing this resource, they're not really using that basic search or advanced search.
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They're using these topic trees below. We also have categories on the homepage topics, news with all of our news articles.
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This is also where all of our fun facts are.
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So if you wanted to connect to if you, you know, did something for National Apple Day and you wanted to connect to more information about Johnny Apple seed, you can do that here.
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You can find that information here. So if you do a lot of themes in your library, like did you know it was Mad Hatter Day on October sixth?
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How fun to bring in Ellis's adventures but also connected to content in your resources.
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We also have pictures, great pictures available. As you're seeing here, some of them are, we have a lot of new infographics that were added.
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We're going to talk a little bit about dogs today. There's one on the best breeds for service dogs.
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But if you have to have read to a dog or I can't remember another library had wags.
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You, you might all have a term. I don't know if you have the dogs that come into your libraries so students can read with them.
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I don't know if you have the dogs that come into your library so students can read with them.
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We have, I know in the school district here that my kids went to, they have a lot of, they have a pack of dogs that are support and support dogs.
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That are in all of the buildings and started with one years ago when my kids were young and it's now it's this pack of and we're bulldogs is our you know so There that's our mascot.
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So we have the dogs make sense to have all they're not bulldogs though. They happen to be a lot of labs and golden's and that kind of thing but still.
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It kinda goes along with our mascot. So dogs coming into the libraries, which is a brilliant idea that I love, you know, that library programming, why not dive in deeper?
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And we're gonna do that today, but I just wanted to point out pictures and then we also have great video content that you can access right from the homepage.
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If we go into these topics sections, you can see the topic tree is really easy for students and we're going to go right into animals today.
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To find content on exactly what they're looking for. So we have so a little piece of higher higher level information here at the top.
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And each of these subcategories you're going to find additional information. So if I'm interested in going into mammals.
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Little bit of information about mammals and then here are the topic pages. Again, Curated Collections of Information So if we are Read to attending, read to a dog event.
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Why not learn a little bit more about dogs? You have an image and essay overview, these essay overviews.
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Multi-level so level one is lower elementary level 2 is upper elementary Some of them have important ideas, others will have vocabulary words or we call them words to know.
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Some have main ideas. It just the text features change depending on the document we are on.
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We have quick facts about dogs. Book articles, magazines, newspaper biographies. Here's all those pictures I was talking about.
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Some video content and then at the very bottom you're going to find related topic pages.
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So if we're looking at, let's say, pictures, maybe we wanted to highlight some information here like the most popular US dog breeds.
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And if we're reading to a dog, where's our dog listed on this list? Or maybe we want to share information looking at the book articles.
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Finding more information about, let's say, sledding dogs. I'm in Michigan, so winter is coming here.
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We can feel it in the air. But maybe information about sledding dogs or police dogs or rescue dogs, all kinds of different documents that we have available.
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That can continue that learning for students.
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Happy to be on the topic of dogs. If we're looking for a magazine, a lot of our magazine articles, as you can see here, publication-wise, where they're coming from, girls world, week junior, we have scholastic on here.
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I'm scout life. Highlights is one of our magazines and there's a huge list of on National Geographic you'll find here too.
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I can always filter down my publications if I wanted to make sure that I don't have any higher level documents showing up because we want to see we see a lot of level ones and twos but sometimes when we go into magazines and newspaper we tend to see some skew a little higher to a level 4 or even a level 3 level 3 isn't more that middle school level.
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And it could be you all are probably very familiar with this. It could be a word or a term that is jumping that level up.
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The beauty is with these even our documents that are that are at a higher level. I'm going to use this one as an example and it's a really brief article.
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We have the Listen feature. So students can listen to this text being read aloud to them. They can also some other tools to support accessibility.
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And these are available in all of your GIL resources. Make the text bigger. They have some display options where they can.
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Change the color behind the text, change the font if they maybe need open dyslexic Increase the line letter and word spacing for our younger users that may have issues.
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That's very helpful. Like I might want to include that make that line spacing even more. And then I can translate the text into over 40 languages.
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The nice thing is when I set up the display options, it will stick with me throughout my training session.
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So that's always a really helpful tool. To go back. To the default settings. I just open it back up and it's in the bottom left-hand corner.
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So if I let's go to dogs and I'm actually going to jump back into book articles.
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And I want to filter down my content levels. So even if I happen to have, maybe I want level and I'm just gonna leave in some level 3 because I know that my students can listen to that text being read aloud to them and so they can grasp that content that way.
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That's always really helpful. Even for our lower elementary, being able to listen to that text being read aloud is a really helpful tool.
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So if I filter it down, I have filtered everything down at once. I can use the get link tool.
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Grab a link back to this content and I can share it wherever. I want my patrons to access this information.
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I can also use that get link tool and pull it into a QR code generator. That's always really helpful too.
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I've heard that from our public libraries where they have a set of iPads and students can just come up, scan that QR code and be taken into information.
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It could be into something that you've leveled for them or it could be to a direct article or document.
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Say dogs.
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What else I wanted to show you within this resource, I'm going to go to the advanced search.
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Let me know if there are any questions. Is I talked about if you happen to have Readers Theater, how you can find that content.
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So what I can do. Because I can go to. Document types. So I what I did is I went into advanced search.
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I'm scrolling down here. I'm not putting in any topics. I can, but I'm not going to.
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I want to show you everything that we have available. I will go to document type. Now content types are those larger levels.
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So books, videos, pictures, larger content items. Where document type is more specific like place. And I click search.
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And I have 886 plays available.
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And again, I can level this down. So if I do want just ones and twos, which I would should primarily see here anyway.
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I can level that content down. And here are. A bunch of different plays I can use. Here's Hey Sophie.
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Another tool that's great for plays is when I have characters I can use my highlights and notes. So let's say Daphne Warren is yellow.
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I can go through this. And highlight Daphne's lines. Yellow which I'm not even should have picked someone like Sophie.
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There. Maybe I want Sophie. She's yellow and every time I see her name, I can highlight that.
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And yellow and then if I wanted to print these off and keep that master copy maybe I want to put them in protective sleeves or something and utilize every time I do readers theater in my library for my library.
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I could do that. So it's a great tool to utilize the highlights and notes feature. Utilize or using content that you have available.
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And we have, like I said, so many different plays that if you're using some and you're ready for a refresh or maybe there's a certain topic like you're looking for.
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Poetry even it doesn't have to be plays maybe in advanced search we want to look at poetry we could do that
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Let me. Columns. I think it's gonna pull back both. Like, cause I didn't clear it.
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Yeah. So it's poems and poetry. Now we have quite a bit. But maybe I want everything on spring.
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I could have put that term in before I did a search or, or let's say winter. Because winter is next.
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I always like to do spring, but. Winter and I can filter all of that content down. Now I have 289 magazines and they're either plays or poems on winter.
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So using that with your library programming for the Reader's Theater. Okay, so let's look at another resource.
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Let me know if there are any questions and we're gonna go into Gale In Context Biography next.
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Again, great biographical information. On Historical 2 Contemporary and this is Global.
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So you'll find people from around the world, important influential people. We will find here with in this resource.
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We have over 5,000 topic pages available. And the nice thing is if I were putting in a topic page term like if I am looking for Walter
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There we go. Took a couple of seconds. Walter, oh. Where did he go?
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There we go. Walter mostly because maybe I'm doing a book study on the devil in a blue dress.
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And maybe he's coming into my library to meet with folks. That would be awesome. I could do that.
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I could provide this. As a link or my my patrons in my library. I can use that get link tool.
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Share this information with them because not only do I have this overview and some quick facts but I have additional content I have feature content which is hand selected information by our content editors biographies you can see images academic journals, audio files maybe you want to hear an interview.
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Magazine articles, news articles. So a great information that I can use. To connect my readers.
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That are coming in for my literary discussion groups to content within the resource. So biography can be used that way.
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Looking at authors. It can also, another fun one since Halloween is right around the corner.
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If we go to advance search, we have person search. It also lives on the homepage. Let me go back.
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In this contextual toolbar, you see person searches here. It also lives in advanced search. So I could go to person search.
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Here I can put in name of a person and I have some pre limiters also available, but maybe I want to use an occupation.
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Maybe I want to see let's do something like vampire.
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I shouldn't have to.
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Let me see. Let's do Dracula.
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See what you get here. There we go. So Dracula, maybe I wanted to pull in Dracula and some information about Dracula.
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You also can see we give some other hints of Vlad the Impaler was another hints to Vlad the Impoler was and another.
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And also known as name. But I can go to that content. That we have available. And we happen to have more than I thought biographies, audio, magazines, newspaper articles available.
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So I can link to if I'm looking at those types of topics, I could pull that information out of Gale In context biography and share that with my patrons too.
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So there's some fun stuff in there. We used to be able and I'm not sure why it's not working that way.
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Let me try again. I used to be able to search by just the occupation and it wouldn't ask me for any additional information.
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Like. Werewolf for example let's see if I can get it to search I don't know if it will.
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Hmm. It's probably gonna give me the, oh no, it worked. Okay, I don't know why, maybe it just glitched a little bit, but here are some folks that thought they were werewolves.
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I've done, you know, searches on. Which is and zombies and that kind of stuff for Halloween.
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Always fun to pull in these kind of and and these are actual people. So you're finding this information and Gale In context biography.
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Also there's some good timelines and pictures you'll find when you're looking at different.
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Biographical information within this resource. Always fun to pull that and so you can see how you can connect it to maybe you're doing an author study in your library, but maybe you want to pull out some fun information.
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Like on werewolves. Here is. This Michael Verdon who, or maybe it's Michelle could be, it's probably France that is thought he was a werewolf.
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Advanced search also, maybe you're looking at memoirs. So we could use document type again here.
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And last time, you know, in elementary we were looking at we were looking at plays. And poems, maybe I'm looking for memoirs.
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So we have we do have some primary source memoirs available within this resource.
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Okay. All right. So let's go into another resource. Let me know if you have any questions.
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The next one we are going to go into. Is scaling context supposing viewpoints and then we'll wrap up our session with your ebook series, the 4 collections that you have.
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So opposing view.
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Hot topics, social issues. I had mentioned during the PowerPoint portion of this training, using it for small business.
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So you may have.
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People that are currently run a business or maybe they're looking to start up a business and they want some industry information or maybe something that they probably
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Purchase for their business is in another, you know, there might be some controversial issues in another country where they're having items imported from that they need that information and they need it to be accurate authentic authoritative information.
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This is a great resource for that. You're pulling in, you're going to see great periodical content here available within this resource.
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It's updated all of your gale resources are updated throughout the day. You're in context resources throughout the day every day.
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So great content will be added here. Within this resource that you'll be able to get that up to date information.
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We also have some categories here below business and economics, maybe energy environmentalism. Maybe you have someone that's looking at renewable energy and that's a business they're interested in and they want what's happening, what's trending.
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Where can I get ahead of the game? You can utilize this resource for small business. And it's not one that people necessarily think about using for small business, but great for industry-specific information, but also looking at those factors that could impact.
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Your business. It's also You know, this is a really good one to take a look at.
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Specific content into interactive infographics are available within this resource. So if I'm looking at specific content, maybe I'm interested in and I'm gonna pick a random.
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I want I'm interested in a, let's do. Let's just do coffee. I'm interested in opening a coffee shop, but I want information on coffee.
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Okay, so you're gonna get things like this. Coffee is not healthy for children. I was very very vague and I kept it very broad.
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So I may want to filter down. I may want to use publication date. Maybe I'm looking for everything from the last year.
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I could do that. I could add that filter or there's certain subjects. I'm interested in coffee houses or the coffee industry. There we go.
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That's right up my alley. Coffee industry and I want information on that. I'm interested.
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I know there's no there's not a Starbucks and it's not coming to my town.
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But I want to open a coffee shop. We have a coffee shop here in our little town and it is a coffee shop but also a theater.
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So, and it's a friend of mine that opened it and they have live music. They'll sometimes have short plays.
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It is a great event space in our town to come down and enjoy a beautiful cup of coffee and they've done all their research but also enjoy a bit of a show too.
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So she's it's just a brilliant idea then took their love of coffee which was her husband and her love of theater and married them together.
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So just an idea like maybe that's something that you're interested in doing and you need more information.
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I know they did a lot of research and did a lot of exploration and visited different places to find the, you know, the best coffee beans and really grew their knowledge.
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So looking at something like turning your passions into a business, you can utilize a resource like Gale In Context opposing viewpoints. And take a look at what's happening in the coffee industry.
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What should I be aware of? So again, a resource that maybe isn't necessarily thought of to use in a small business with your small business patrons.
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So there's a what to use when idea for your public library programming. And of course we have great information in here like on artificial intelligence, which is just trending across the board right now.
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So those types of topics you're going to find here and find great content related. Our viewpoints, our viewpoint essays that talk about that they start with a commentary and then they go into that essay and you're going to find great information.
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There. Our Explore panel too is always really helpful because it's linked to a additional content.
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That's related to supplement where you're at. So it really helps guide our users, our researchers.
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Or in this case, a small business owner. Down, you know, different paths and and shares with them content that they may not have.
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Found if they were just searching on their own. All our tools to support accessibility are still here, but I also have and I did in our inc context resources too, had the ability to send to Google Drive, Microsoft Onedrive, email, download or print.
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You'll find those features here in our contextual toolbar. So the Sun too little paper airplane, same things are available, download and print, our get link tools here and there's our highlights and notes.
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Citations are always attached to every single document, but our citation tool is here also. And I have the ability to just grab my citation if I need to change that format I can.
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Or if I need to choose or if I. Happen to have access to noodle tools and I want to export it there.
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I can do that also. You have all these export options.
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Okay, and highlights and notes again, great tool. The reason why we have this contextual toolbar is you can see if I get down to this point and I decide, oh yeah, I want to send this to my Google Drive.
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I can click on the paper airplane, select Google Drive and it'll land in a folder.
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Titled Gale in Context Supposing Viewpoints, and that article will be there. Also, if I've marked it up at all using the highlights and notes feature, it'll remain marked up and turn it into a Google D or a Microsoft.
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Word doc so it's nice to use that feature too within this resource. Okay, we're close to the end of our time.
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I talked about using how when when to use opposing viewpoints and I just shared one idea for public library programming.
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What you want to really understand is this is one of those pro con hot topics, controversial issues, this is the resource to go to and it is used at a middle school.
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I say tread lightly because of some of the information there, but high school, higher ed, we have our everyday researchers at every level.
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And again, you're going to find great periodical content from the New York Times in the Washington Post and it's unlimited access.
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They can translate it if they need it in if your users need it in a different language. So all those tools and features are available.
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You may have one copy on your shelf, but we have multiple here. Unlimited access. Plus we're mobile responsive so they could even access it from their phone.
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Listen to it being read aloud. You have all those features available along with all of this great content that's being pulled in.
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Alright, the last one I'm going to talk to you about is your collections of ebooks.
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And I really kind of want to talk to you more about the the features within this resource. Because it is a little bit different, but also your consideration of certain topics.
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So you can see I have drama for students, novels, poetry, and short stories. So if I wanted to search through just a singular.
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Collection I can. Now if I go to the discus homepage I'm gonna view my online resources and I'm going to select Gale.
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You can see what they've done here is they've. Separated those collections. So drama.
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Novels, poetry, and short stories. If I go into novels for students here, it takes me right into all of those volumes.
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If I click on the ebooks link at the top. It'll take me back to this page.
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So they are those links. It looks like for different resources, but what they've done is they've organized it for you.
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So users can go directly into.
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Go directly into that collection. Oops. But you can also do that from this page where you can click on novels for students and it takes you to that same spot.
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So you can see discus takes, skips that step and takes you right in. The beauty with utilizing this feature is you have all of these volumes.
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And I can search within. On the right hand side. So my basic search is going to search through all 4 of those e-book collections and all the multiple volumes.
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But if I just wanted to search through my novels, let's say for Frankenstein.
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Sticking with the Halloween theme, but also One of those books that is studied at the high school and higher ed level and one that you know folks just like to read because it's interesting but I can do a search.
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And search just within novels for students. And here are. Multiple articles and we pulled in some more so Frankenstein was obviously mentioned in this article and mentioned in this article and one on Dr.
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Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Victor Frankenstein here, but I can access, let's say I'm interested in the second one, I get a bit of a overview of what I'm going into.
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This is coming from volume 60. It's a character overview, a critical essay, a work overview, a biography, and a plot summary.
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All available. There's 21 pages and this is the best of. Here I can see this one's 23 pages.
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I put my cursor over top and I can see what type of documents I'm going to find there.
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So let's just go into the best of novels for students since you have access to that. And here is the article.
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We have images. It starts with an introduction. And you can see on the right hand side, we have related subjects, but also more like this.
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I can turn the page at the top here. But I also have what's a little different is book view.
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So book view. Will give me exactly that. It's a PDF of this book. So if I wanted to read the book this way, maybe I wanted to enlarge it.
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I can click and drag. I can tap when I want to turn the page or swipe. I can fit 2 pages in here.
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If I'm interested in using that tool. So all these features at the top are available. Make this whole screen.
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Zoom in. And start reading.
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Okay, so bookview is available. I also have table of contents, so if I wanted to drop 2, you can see other.
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Topics within this best of title. I can do that. Now I can download this and it would download though the pages that I have available from this section.
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I can print it off. I can also if I go back to Text View, this is when I have my tools to support accessibility.
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When I'm in book view, remember it's a PDF of the actual book, the print copy.
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But here, when I'm in text view, if I needed to translate it, I could.
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If I need this display option because I really want to read this.
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I can utilize this feature.
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And it'll help me meet my needs as a patron accessing this.
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So again, you have that. Complete ebooks collection, drama for students, poetry, short stories, all available here.
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Maybe you're looking at at Grell and Poe and the Raven. I'm sticking with the Halloween theme a little bit here.
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But also these are Shakespeare. There's a lot of great content. Maybe I wanted to do a search on Shakespeare because he may show up in.
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Multiple volumes. So we have poetry, it's gonna probably be primarily poetry, but he might it might show up and we might see drama, but you're going to see here at the top there's 754 different results for Shakespeare.
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So then again, using my filter options on the right hand side are going to be really helpful. I also have topic finder.
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And I'm going to click on Topic Finder right now to share with you. Topic Finder lives on our home pages.
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It lives under advanced search. You can kick off a search. Using Topic Finder or pull in your search results.
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If I'm pulling in my search results on topic finder, it's a visual interactive tool.
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So it's a visual representation of my search results, but it's interactive. So if I wanted to click into fictional character, it will zoom in and I you can see I have 55 results here.
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But maybe I'm looking specifically at female. No, let's not do that. Let's look at Hamlet.
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Now I'm at 3 different documents. On Hamlet.
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To reset it, I can just click the reset button here at the bottom of the page. But I really love this too is because Our users don't, there's keywords that maybe they hadn't necessarily thought about that this may.
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Encourage that exploration and it is a great tool. I know our students love this tool when they're doing their research, but again, a really helpful tool for all of our users.
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All right, so let me go back to. Our PowerPoint and we're going to wrap our session up here.
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Let me know if you have any questions at all whatsoever. For your support at discus you can contact the discus [email protected] and they will be happy to help you with any questions that you have.
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This is your first line of support. So if you need help, reach out to the folks at discus.
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Obviously you can go to the discus site that I shared with you. Let me put this if you're not familiar with it.
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I'm sure you all are, but let me just put it in your chat real quick. You can go to the discus site and you can contact the support link there.
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It's under the support section at the top navigation, but I'll post it here too for you all.
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And that's a direct line to, the support site. Or their support, I'm sorry.
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To Gale Support Site, specifically the one that we have available for Discus, and this is a great way to if you're looking for your direct URLs, you can go to this site that I'm going to share with you right now in the chat.
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It's also here at the top of the screen. And what you'll find there once you find your library name, you will be able to find all of your access URLs, your title lists, mark records for all of your ebooks because you have that fantastic collection.
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There's also tech documents if you're looking for any of database icons or widgets.
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We have all that information. You also have your customer success managers that can help with Gale resources. Training Center, tip sheets and tutorials.
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I've shared a couple here. Like here's one for biography. Here's another one that we have on Gale e-book searching.
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So we have tutorials. We have webinars. We have tutorials, we have webinars, we have resource guides, we have webinars, we have resource guides, we also have great marketing materials.
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So if you're looking to promote your discus resources, you can utilize our marketing materials that are already Created for you social media posts we have sample Templates, email templates, and blog posts available too that you can utilize.
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So use what we have available for you all. Access that information through the support site.
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And then customer success. Managers, they're the one-on-one support. I'll have their contact information.
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Again, first contact, the discus support. For help. But I do want to let you know that you have Gil customer success managers that are available for any Gale questions that you have.
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For today's training, the survey, here's a QR code. It should pop up when you leave me today on your screen.
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If you could fill that out for the folks at discus they would really appreciate it. But a QR code here is here on the screen.
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If you would like to use your phone and quickly answer those questions and I will also It should pop up fine because I added it, but let me grab the.
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URL for that too. Might as well share it.
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In your chat box. And again my name is Tammy Burke. I am your senior training consultant from Gale.
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I thank you so much for your time today and I hope you join us. Again in the future. Come back and talk to me again.
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If you have any questions, I can stay on the line, but otherwise have a great rest of your day.
Welcome to your training for discus. Today's session is optimizing your Gale Resources, a training guide for public libraries.
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My name is Tammy Burke. I'm your Gale Senior Trainer. And today if you have any questions, please feel free to use that Q&A box.
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It is open and available. We will be focusing on the resources you have available from discus and talk about how they can be utilized in your public libraries with your patrons.
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As public librarians you all wear a lot of hats you have patrons coming in that are like myself Just a general patron interested, maybe I'm interested in small business information.
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You also have students that are looking for homework help. Or homeschooled students and their parents. You also have academics, so higher ed students coming into your library.
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You have patrons like my parents that are coming into your library looking for support. And today my goal is for you all to see how these scale resources that you have access to from discus can be utilized in your public library and even with your programming.
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So we'll talk through some general ideas with these resources and talking about what to use and when to use it.
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And one's a good time to suggest the resource when you're working with your patrons.
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But I'll also talk about different programming ideas. And how they can be used and how the resources can be used with those programs.
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Our agenda for today will start with an overview of what to use one so you all know what you have available.
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And then we will be exploring content, specific content available in these resources. And I will also work in some of the features and the workflow tools.
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That you have available. So might as well bring those into the conversation also. Any questions feel free to ask me throughout the session, but I will leave you at the end of today's training with my contact information, but also your folks at discus.
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You've got a great support group there at Discus. So I'll provide you with their information just in case you weren't aware of it.
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And also, when I say support, we have a lot of great training materials available too. So I'll share that information with you.
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So as public libraries, it was shared with me with the great folks at Discus that you primarily use your own links.
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On your library websites to your Gil resources or to your discus resources. If you're not using those links you can always access through the Discus resource website here.
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I'm linking it out or sharing it here on the screen. And you can always utilize that.
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Website to access all of your discus resources. I will also share towards the end of today's training if you do want your direct URLs and you're not using them yet, where you can find them on your Gale support site.
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And again, I'll share the support help that you have available through discus, you can always contact those folks too.
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If you want to, you know, that one on one support, they are fantastic and can help you with all of your questions.
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So let's start about talking about what to use when with your discus resources that you have from Gale.
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The first one I want to talk to you about is Gale In Context Elementary. This is a great resource for homework help, but it's also great for homeschooling.
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I also like to link it to programming. So there's a lot of programming that happens in your libraries.
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Especially in the children's library, that this resource could truly support. It is for kindergarten through fifth grade students and you will find reading levels.
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For kindergartners through fifth grade students and all kinds of tools and features to where you can filter down to certain reading levels and share information.
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With your patrons coming into your library, providing access to this resource within your library and highlighting it.
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Maybe you're doing a programming on space. And you want, this is a great resource for nonfiction information on space.
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And we have topic pages and a topic tree that helps students navigate through this this database and find exactly what they're looking for but also we provide you with a get link option to where you can send folks directly to a specific spot within the resource.
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Not only that, but we have great tools to support accessibility such as the read aloud or text to speech feature that listen button.
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We also have the ability to translate the text into over 40 languages. This is also another great one and we're going to talk about this today but another great one when you are talking about readers theater.
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I don't know if you're doing any readers theater in your programming or events at your library, but there are a lot of great plays and you can use our highlights and notes feature when you're grabbing this information out of the resource or again share it with students but it is a great tool if you're looking for, okay, I need more plays for my readers theater.
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Where can I go? Go into Gale In Context Elementary. And looking for poetry, maybe you're doing poetry studies.
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We have great poetry available in Gale In Context Elementary. And so much more. Great geography.
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Information on science and social studies, animals is one of our most popular ones. So if you have read to a dog at your library, why not extend that learning with information on dogs?
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And that's going to be we're going to focus a little bit on that today when we're talking about this.
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Resource when I go live into the product.
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Another great resource for biographical information on people of interest is Gale in context biography. Are in context resources are very rich, multimedia, so you're going to find in this resource you'll find great biographical information.
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I think we have over 5,000 topic pages available. Topic pages are curated collections of information.
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On a specific topic. And so we have that type of information available within this resource. But we also have multimedia.
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So you're going to find images and videos and also audio files. So you may find an interview with a person of interest.
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Maybe connect this to if you're doing a book study and you want information on authors. That's that's kind of our focus today is looking at that.
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Information on authors, you're going to find great content available within this resource because it really covers from historical to contemporary.
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So and in its international
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So we are people around the globe. You're going to find information in Galing context biography.
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It's a great one for our middle school, the high school students, but it is.
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In our public libraries used by all of your patrons at all levels. You will find to even your higher ed students will find great content here.
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I myself as your general patron that comes into your library, love to dive into this resource. There's many times I'll maybe I'm watching a show on Netflix and there's a character that
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I want it.
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Will.
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That I want to explore more. This is a resource that I would turn to. So it's those, documentaries where I'm fine.
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Find more information or maybe I'm reading on the an historical fiction book. That's another one where I'll jump in.
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Into this resource.
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Find more information not only on the author but maybe on the character that existed in history for us. So just some ideas on how you can utilize this.
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We're going to talk about some fun ones today too and then do some advanced searching in this if you're looking maybe you're looking for memoirs.
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I'm gonna, we're gonna do a search and I'm gonna show you how to find that information.
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In a Gale In context biography. Another resource in the in context family is one that
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About hot topics with pro/con viewpoints and that is Gale In context opposing viewpoints. This is one of our most popular resources.
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It really does show you both sides of the issue. Some ways that this one is not necessarily thought about in public libraries but is utilized as business.
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If you're looking at a looking at
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Specific information, especially if they're
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Might be landing in this resource that could.
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In an academic journal or a newspaper magazine, that type of, we have great periodical content in our in context resources, but sometimes looking at it that way through this resource can be really helpful to small business owners or those looking to start a business.
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So that's a way that this resource hasn't been necessarily thought about. In your data
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Use.
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Within your library.
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Course it has a great, like I said, procons, social issues, hot topics you're going to find available within this resource.
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There's also You have a beautiful literature ebook series or I should say ebook collection when these are multiple You have multiple volumes in each of these collections.
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So you have 4 different collections with multiple volumes. So for drama for students, this is a great collection of ebooks that are looking at critical overviews of the most studied plays, themes, characters, and so much more.
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With our novels for students, it's critical overviews of novels but you're looking at plot and character, cultural and historical significance.
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Our poetry for students is POM analysis from all time periods, nations and cultures.
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And our short stories for students is our synopsis of story plot characters theme and themes author biographies criticisms and more.
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So these are obviously you can see for students so they're great for middle school used a lot at the high school level great for our higher ed students too but also can be utilized for your literary studies.
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So if you're doing a literary discussion group, and you're looking for some critical overviews.
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This is a great resource to turn to. You can also the drama for students if you're showing a movie.
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I know that happens a lot in libraries. Some libraries have this great option. Within their library they have that space where they're showing a movie.
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Look at our drama for students. How can you bring some of this into your programming? Can you link it out?
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You're adding this event. Can you add some links to additional content that might entice folks to show up.
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Come to your library, but also learn a little bit more. So extend that learning. Or an introductory to what you're about to study.
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So. Keep that in mind with that great literature collection, some different ideas and we'll talk a little bit more about that when we go live into the resource.
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One item that cross searches through everything but everything but Gale In Context Elementary. Elementary is just for our kindergarten through fifth grade students.
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So we keep that outside of power search. They really wouldn't use power search anyway. But if you wanted to cross search through your both of your in context and all of your e-books at one time, you can use Gale Power Search.
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So it's a great cross search tool that is available. And linked out on your discus website, but also you have a direct URL available for your own library if you would like to use that.
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The benefits of using those direct URLs are of course usage is one of the biggest ones. You're able to look at your usage reports.
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We, our usage dashboard is fantastic. You can pull very specific information. You can look at different reports.
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You can also pull, we have a word cloud you can put together. If you're looking at maybe usage from the last month, you want to build your collection out, you can see what information is being accessed.
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So our usage dashboard is a great tool. But you would need to be using your direct URLs for your library to benefit from that information.
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So. So keep all of that in mind. Getting a little bit of information about usage also. So with that, let's jump into our first resource and we are going to go into Gale In Context Elementary and I have to say this is one of my favorites.
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I was a former elementary school teacher. Many, many years ago, I've been training for a number of years now, but it is still near and dear to my heart and this it really is a great resource.
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For your K through 5 patrons that are coming in to your library looking for that support. I always think of my own children when we would go to the library when they were looking for we did a wax museum at this the schools a teacher did a wax museum in the students my one of my or all 3 of my kids went through this but they had to find biographical information and it was a challenge because every third grade
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classroom. Was doing the same wax museum. And guess what was gone? They had gave the kids a list.
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Of people of interest and everything was wiped out of our public libraries. So here we were, I had, you know, a few books I was able to get my hands on, but I was looking online and guess what they didn't have online?
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The open web information that was relevant for my child to do their own research. Wasn't that the reading level wasn't necessarily safe either because of maybe pop-up ads on the right hand side that would be showing up when we opened a website.
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So think of this resource in many different ways. But for those students that are coming in for that additional support, but also to go along with your programming that's happening in your library.
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So let me talk a little bit about some of the tools and features. You're seeing here. On this homepage.
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One feature that sometimes gets missed is turning the sound on and off. And what this is good for is navigating through the resource.
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So if I turn this sound on and let me make sure my volume is up nice and high here on my computer.
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Turn the sound on.
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Wherever I place my cursor, it'll read that text. Now this is different than the Listen button.
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The listen button is at when we're at the document level. I would not use this feature for that.
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But I would use it to to help me navigate through this resource. The majority of our students that are accessing this resource, they're not really using that basic search or advanced search.
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They're using these topic trees below. We also have categories on the homepage topics, news with all of our news articles.
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This is also where all of our fun facts are.
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So if you wanted to connect to if you, you know, did something for National Apple Day and you wanted to connect to more information about Johnny Apple seed, you can do that here.
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You can find that information here. So if you do a lot of themes in your library, like did you know it was Mad Hatter Day on October sixth?
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How fun to bring in Ellis's adventures but also connected to content in your resources.
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We also have pictures, great pictures available. As you're seeing here, some of them are, we have a lot of new infographics that were added.
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We're going to talk a little bit about dogs today. There's one on the best breeds for service dogs.
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But if you have to have read to a dog or I can't remember another library had wags.
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You, you might all have a term. I don't know if you have the dogs that come into your libraries so students can read with them.
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I don't know if you have the dogs that come into your library so students can read with them.
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We have, I know in the school district here that my kids went to, they have a lot of, they have a pack of dogs that are support and support dogs.
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That are in all of the buildings and started with one years ago when my kids were young and it's now it's this pack of and we're bulldogs is our you know so There that's our mascot.
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So we have the dogs make sense to have all they're not bulldogs though. They happen to be a lot of labs and golden's and that kind of thing but still.
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It kinda goes along with our mascot. So dogs coming into the libraries, which is a brilliant idea that I love, you know, that library programming, why not dive in deeper?
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And we're gonna do that today, but I just wanted to point out pictures and then we also have great video content that you can access right from the homepage.
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If we go into these topics sections, you can see the topic tree is really easy for students and we're going to go right into animals today.
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To find content on exactly what they're looking for. So we have so a little piece of higher higher level information here at the top.
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And each of these subcategories you're going to find additional information. So if I'm interested in going into mammals.
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Little bit of information about mammals and then here are the topic pages. Again, Curated Collections of Information So if we are Read to attending, read to a dog event.
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Why not learn a little bit more about dogs? You have an image and essay overview, these essay overviews.
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Multi-level so level one is lower elementary level 2 is upper elementary Some of them have important ideas, others will have vocabulary words or we call them words to know.
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Some have main ideas. It just the text features change depending on the document we are on.
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We have quick facts about dogs. Book articles, magazines, newspaper biographies. Here's all those pictures I was talking about.
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Some video content and then at the very bottom you're going to find related topic pages.
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So if we're looking at, let's say, pictures, maybe we wanted to highlight some information here like the most popular US dog breeds.
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And if we're reading to a dog, where's our dog listed on this list? Or maybe we want to share information looking at the book articles.
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Finding more information about, let's say, sledding dogs. I'm in Michigan, so winter is coming here.
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We can feel it in the air. But maybe information about sledding dogs or police dogs or rescue dogs, all kinds of different documents that we have available.
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That can continue that learning for students.
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Happy to be on the topic of dogs. If we're looking for a magazine, a lot of our magazine articles, as you can see here, publication-wise, where they're coming from, girls world, week junior, we have scholastic on here.
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I'm scout life. Highlights is one of our magazines and there's a huge list of on National Geographic you'll find here too.
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I can always filter down my publications if I wanted to make sure that I don't have any higher level documents showing up because we want to see we see a lot of level ones and twos but sometimes when we go into magazines and newspaper we tend to see some skew a little higher to a level 4 or even a level 3 level 3 isn't more that middle school level.
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And it could be you all are probably very familiar with this. It could be a word or a term that is jumping that level up.
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The beauty is with these even our documents that are that are at a higher level. I'm going to use this one as an example and it's a really brief article.
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We have the Listen feature. So students can listen to this text being read aloud to them. They can also some other tools to support accessibility.
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And these are available in all of your GIL resources. Make the text bigger. They have some display options where they can.
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Change the color behind the text, change the font if they maybe need open dyslexic Increase the line letter and word spacing for our younger users that may have issues.
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That's very helpful. Like I might want to include that make that line spacing even more. And then I can translate the text into over 40 languages.
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The nice thing is when I set up the display options, it will stick with me throughout my training session.
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So that's always a really helpful tool. To go back. To the default settings. I just open it back up and it's in the bottom left-hand corner.
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So if I let's go to dogs and I'm actually going to jump back into book articles.
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And I want to filter down my content levels. So even if I happen to have, maybe I want level and I'm just gonna leave in some level 3 because I know that my students can listen to that text being read aloud to them and so they can grasp that content that way.
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That's always really helpful. Even for our lower elementary, being able to listen to that text being read aloud is a really helpful tool.
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So if I filter it down, I have filtered everything down at once. I can use the get link tool.
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Grab a link back to this content and I can share it wherever. I want my patrons to access this information.
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I can also use that get link tool and pull it into a QR code generator. That's always really helpful too.
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I've heard that from our public libraries where they have a set of iPads and students can just come up, scan that QR code and be taken into information.
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It could be into something that you've leveled for them or it could be to a direct article or document.
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Say dogs.
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What else I wanted to show you within this resource, I'm going to go to the advanced search.
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Let me know if there are any questions. Is I talked about if you happen to have Readers Theater, how you can find that content.
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So what I can do. Because I can go to. Document types. So I what I did is I went into advanced search.
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I'm scrolling down here. I'm not putting in any topics. I can, but I'm not going to.
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I want to show you everything that we have available. I will go to document type. Now content types are those larger levels.
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So books, videos, pictures, larger content items. Where document type is more specific like place. And I click search.
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And I have 886 plays available.
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And again, I can level this down. So if I do want just ones and twos, which I would should primarily see here anyway.
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I can level that content down. And here are. A bunch of different plays I can use. Here's Hey Sophie.
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Another tool that's great for plays is when I have characters I can use my highlights and notes. So let's say Daphne Warren is yellow.
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I can go through this. And highlight Daphne's lines. Yellow which I'm not even should have picked someone like Sophie.
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There. Maybe I want Sophie. She's yellow and every time I see her name, I can highlight that.
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And yellow and then if I wanted to print these off and keep that master copy maybe I want to put them in protective sleeves or something and utilize every time I do readers theater in my library for my library.
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I could do that. So it's a great tool to utilize the highlights and notes feature. Utilize or using content that you have available.
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And we have, like I said, so many different plays that if you're using some and you're ready for a refresh or maybe there's a certain topic like you're looking for.
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Poetry even it doesn't have to be plays maybe in advanced search we want to look at poetry we could do that
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Let me. Columns. I think it's gonna pull back both. Like, cause I didn't clear it.
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Yeah. So it's poems and poetry. Now we have quite a bit. But maybe I want everything on spring.
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I could have put that term in before I did a search or, or let's say winter. Because winter is next.
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I always like to do spring, but. Winter and I can filter all of that content down. Now I have 289 magazines and they're either plays or poems on winter.
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So using that with your library programming for the Reader's Theater. Okay, so let's look at another resource.
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Let me know if there are any questions and we're gonna go into Gale In Context Biography next.
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Again, great biographical information. On Historical 2 Contemporary and this is Global.
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So you'll find people from around the world, important influential people. We will find here with in this resource.
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We have over 5,000 topic pages available. And the nice thing is if I were putting in a topic page term like if I am looking for Walter
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There we go. Took a couple of seconds. Walter, oh. Where did he go?
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There we go. Walter mostly because maybe I'm doing a book study on the devil in a blue dress.
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And maybe he's coming into my library to meet with folks. That would be awesome. I could do that.
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I could provide this. As a link or my my patrons in my library. I can use that get link tool.
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Share this information with them because not only do I have this overview and some quick facts but I have additional content I have feature content which is hand selected information by our content editors biographies you can see images academic journals, audio files maybe you want to hear an interview.
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Magazine articles, news articles. So a great information that I can use. To connect my readers.
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That are coming in for my literary discussion groups to content within the resource. So biography can be used that way.
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Looking at authors. It can also, another fun one since Halloween is right around the corner.
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If we go to advance search, we have person search. It also lives on the homepage. Let me go back.
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In this contextual toolbar, you see person searches here. It also lives in advanced search. So I could go to person search.
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Here I can put in name of a person and I have some pre limiters also available, but maybe I want to use an occupation.
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Maybe I want to see let's do something like vampire.
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I shouldn't have to.
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Let me see. Let's do Dracula.
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See what you get here. There we go. So Dracula, maybe I wanted to pull in Dracula and some information about Dracula.
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You also can see we give some other hints of Vlad the Impaler was another hints to Vlad the Impoler was and another.
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And also known as name. But I can go to that content. That we have available. And we happen to have more than I thought biographies, audio, magazines, newspaper articles available.
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So I can link to if I'm looking at those types of topics, I could pull that information out of Gale In context biography and share that with my patrons too.
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So there's some fun stuff in there. We used to be able and I'm not sure why it's not working that way.
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Let me try again. I used to be able to search by just the occupation and it wouldn't ask me for any additional information.
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Like. Werewolf for example let's see if I can get it to search I don't know if it will.
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Hmm. It's probably gonna give me the, oh no, it worked. Okay, I don't know why, maybe it just glitched a little bit, but here are some folks that thought they were werewolves.
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I've done, you know, searches on. Which is and zombies and that kind of stuff for Halloween.
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Always fun to pull in these kind of and and these are actual people. So you're finding this information and Gale In context biography.
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Also there's some good timelines and pictures you'll find when you're looking at different.
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Biographical information within this resource. Always fun to pull that and so you can see how you can connect it to maybe you're doing an author study in your library, but maybe you want to pull out some fun information.
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Like on werewolves. Here is. This Michael Verdon who, or maybe it's Michelle could be, it's probably France that is thought he was a werewolf.
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Advanced search also, maybe you're looking at memoirs. So we could use document type again here.
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And last time, you know, in elementary we were looking at we were looking at plays. And poems, maybe I'm looking for memoirs.
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So we have we do have some primary source memoirs available within this resource.
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Okay. All right. So let's go into another resource. Let me know if you have any questions.
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The next one we are going to go into. Is scaling context supposing viewpoints and then we'll wrap up our session with your ebook series, the 4 collections that you have.
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So opposing view.
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Hot topics, social issues. I had mentioned during the PowerPoint portion of this training, using it for small business.
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So you may have.
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People that are currently run a business or maybe they're looking to start up a business and they want some industry information or maybe something that they probably
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Purchase for their business is in another, you know, there might be some controversial issues in another country where they're having items imported from that they need that information and they need it to be accurate authentic authoritative information.
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This is a great resource for that. You're pulling in, you're going to see great periodical content here available within this resource.
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It's updated all of your gale resources are updated throughout the day. You're in context resources throughout the day every day.
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So great content will be added here. Within this resource that you'll be able to get that up to date information.
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We also have some categories here below business and economics, maybe energy environmentalism. Maybe you have someone that's looking at renewable energy and that's a business they're interested in and they want what's happening, what's trending.
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Where can I get ahead of the game? You can utilize this resource for small business. And it's not one that people necessarily think about using for small business, but great for industry-specific information, but also looking at those factors that could impact.
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Your business. It's also You know, this is a really good one to take a look at.
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Specific content into interactive infographics are available within this resource. So if I'm looking at specific content, maybe I'm interested in and I'm gonna pick a random.
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I want I'm interested in a, let's do. Let's just do coffee. I'm interested in opening a coffee shop, but I want information on coffee.
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Okay, so you're gonna get things like this. Coffee is not healthy for children. I was very very vague and I kept it very broad.
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So I may want to filter down. I may want to use publication date. Maybe I'm looking for everything from the last year.
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I could do that. I could add that filter or there's certain subjects. I'm interested in coffee houses or the coffee industry. There we go.
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That's right up my alley. Coffee industry and I want information on that. I'm interested.
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I know there's no there's not a Starbucks and it's not coming to my town.
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But I want to open a coffee shop. We have a coffee shop here in our little town and it is a coffee shop but also a theater.
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So, and it's a friend of mine that opened it and they have live music. They'll sometimes have short plays.
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It is a great event space in our town to come down and enjoy a beautiful cup of coffee and they've done all their research but also enjoy a bit of a show too.
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So she's it's just a brilliant idea then took their love of coffee which was her husband and her love of theater and married them together.
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So just an idea like maybe that's something that you're interested in doing and you need more information.
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I know they did a lot of research and did a lot of exploration and visited different places to find the, you know, the best coffee beans and really grew their knowledge.
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So looking at something like turning your passions into a business, you can utilize a resource like Gale In Context opposing viewpoints. And take a look at what's happening in the coffee industry.
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What should I be aware of? So again, a resource that maybe isn't necessarily thought of to use in a small business with your small business patrons.
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So there's a what to use when idea for your public library programming. And of course we have great information in here like on artificial intelligence, which is just trending across the board right now.
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So those types of topics you're going to find here and find great content related. Our viewpoints, our viewpoint essays that talk about that they start with a commentary and then they go into that essay and you're going to find great information.
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There. Our Explore panel too is always really helpful because it's linked to a additional content.
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That's related to supplement where you're at. So it really helps guide our users, our researchers.
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Or in this case, a small business owner. Down, you know, different paths and and shares with them content that they may not have.
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Found if they were just searching on their own. All our tools to support accessibility are still here, but I also have and I did in our inc context resources too, had the ability to send to Google Drive, Microsoft Onedrive, email, download or print.
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You'll find those features here in our contextual toolbar. So the Sun too little paper airplane, same things are available, download and print, our get link tools here and there's our highlights and notes.
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Citations are always attached to every single document, but our citation tool is here also. And I have the ability to just grab my citation if I need to change that format I can.
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Or if I need to choose or if I. Happen to have access to noodle tools and I want to export it there.
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I can do that also. You have all these export options.
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Okay, and highlights and notes again, great tool. The reason why we have this contextual toolbar is you can see if I get down to this point and I decide, oh yeah, I want to send this to my Google Drive.
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I can click on the paper airplane, select Google Drive and it'll land in a folder.
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Titled Gale in Context Supposing Viewpoints, and that article will be there. Also, if I've marked it up at all using the highlights and notes feature, it'll remain marked up and turn it into a Google D or a Microsoft.
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Word doc so it's nice to use that feature too within this resource. Okay, we're close to the end of our time.
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I talked about using how when when to use opposing viewpoints and I just shared one idea for public library programming.
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What you want to really understand is this is one of those pro con hot topics, controversial issues, this is the resource to go to and it is used at a middle school.
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I say tread lightly because of some of the information there, but high school, higher ed, we have our everyday researchers at every level.
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And again, you're going to find great periodical content from the New York Times in the Washington Post and it's unlimited access.
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They can translate it if they need it in if your users need it in a different language. So all those tools and features are available.
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You may have one copy on your shelf, but we have multiple here. Unlimited access. Plus we're mobile responsive so they could even access it from their phone.
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Listen to it being read aloud. You have all those features available along with all of this great content that's being pulled in.
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Alright, the last one I'm going to talk to you about is your collections of ebooks.
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And I really kind of want to talk to you more about the the features within this resource. Because it is a little bit different, but also your consideration of certain topics.
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So you can see I have drama for students, novels, poetry, and short stories. So if I wanted to search through just a singular.
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Collection I can. Now if I go to the discus homepage I'm gonna view my online resources and I'm going to select Gale.
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You can see what they've done here is they've. Separated those collections. So drama.
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Novels, poetry, and short stories. If I go into novels for students here, it takes me right into all of those volumes.
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If I click on the ebooks link at the top. It'll take me back to this page.
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So they are those links. It looks like for different resources, but what they've done is they've organized it for you.
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So users can go directly into.
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Go directly into that collection. Oops. But you can also do that from this page where you can click on novels for students and it takes you to that same spot.
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So you can see discus takes, skips that step and takes you right in. The beauty with utilizing this feature is you have all of these volumes.
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And I can search within. On the right hand side. So my basic search is going to search through all 4 of those e-book collections and all the multiple volumes.
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But if I just wanted to search through my novels, let's say for Frankenstein.
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Sticking with the Halloween theme, but also One of those books that is studied at the high school and higher ed level and one that you know folks just like to read because it's interesting but I can do a search.
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And search just within novels for students. And here are. Multiple articles and we pulled in some more so Frankenstein was obviously mentioned in this article and mentioned in this article and one on Dr.
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Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Victor Frankenstein here, but I can access, let's say I'm interested in the second one, I get a bit of a overview of what I'm going into.
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This is coming from volume 60. It's a character overview, a critical essay, a work overview, a biography, and a plot summary.
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All available. There's 21 pages and this is the best of. Here I can see this one's 23 pages.
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I put my cursor over top and I can see what type of documents I'm going to find there.
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So let's just go into the best of novels for students since you have access to that. And here is the article.
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We have images. It starts with an introduction. And you can see on the right hand side, we have related subjects, but also more like this.
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I can turn the page at the top here. But I also have what's a little different is book view.
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So book view. Will give me exactly that. It's a PDF of this book. So if I wanted to read the book this way, maybe I wanted to enlarge it.
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I can click and drag. I can tap when I want to turn the page or swipe. I can fit 2 pages in here.
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If I'm interested in using that tool. So all these features at the top are available. Make this whole screen.
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Zoom in. And start reading.
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Okay, so bookview is available. I also have table of contents, so if I wanted to drop 2, you can see other.
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Topics within this best of title. I can do that. Now I can download this and it would download though the pages that I have available from this section.
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I can print it off. I can also if I go back to Text View, this is when I have my tools to support accessibility.
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When I'm in book view, remember it's a PDF of the actual book, the print copy.
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But here, when I'm in text view, if I needed to translate it, I could.
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If I need this display option because I really want to read this.
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I can utilize this feature.
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And it'll help me meet my needs as a patron accessing this.
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So again, you have that. Complete ebooks collection, drama for students, poetry, short stories, all available here.
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Maybe you're looking at at Grell and Poe and the Raven. I'm sticking with the Halloween theme a little bit here.
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But also these are Shakespeare. There's a lot of great content. Maybe I wanted to do a search on Shakespeare because he may show up in.
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Multiple volumes. So we have poetry, it's gonna probably be primarily poetry, but he might it might show up and we might see drama, but you're going to see here at the top there's 754 different results for Shakespeare.
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So then again, using my filter options on the right hand side are going to be really helpful. I also have topic finder.
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And I'm going to click on Topic Finder right now to share with you. Topic Finder lives on our home pages.
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It lives under advanced search. You can kick off a search. Using Topic Finder or pull in your search results.
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If I'm pulling in my search results on topic finder, it's a visual interactive tool.
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So it's a visual representation of my search results, but it's interactive. So if I wanted to click into fictional character, it will zoom in and I you can see I have 55 results here.
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But maybe I'm looking specifically at female. No, let's not do that. Let's look at Hamlet.
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Now I'm at 3 different documents. On Hamlet.
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To reset it, I can just click the reset button here at the bottom of the page. But I really love this too is because Our users don't, there's keywords that maybe they hadn't necessarily thought about that this may.
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Encourage that exploration and it is a great tool. I know our students love this tool when they're doing their research, but again, a really helpful tool for all of our users.
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All right, so let me go back to. Our PowerPoint and we're going to wrap our session up here.
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Let me know if you have any questions at all whatsoever. For your support at discus you can contact the discus [email protected] and they will be happy to help you with any questions that you have.
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This is your first line of support. So if you need help, reach out to the folks at discus.
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Obviously you can go to the discus site that I shared with you. Let me put this if you're not familiar with it.
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I'm sure you all are, but let me just put it in your chat real quick. You can go to the discus site and you can contact the support link there.
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It's under the support section at the top navigation, but I'll post it here too for you all.
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And that's a direct line to, the support site. Or their support, I'm sorry.
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To Gale Support Site, specifically the one that we have available for Discus, and this is a great way to if you're looking for your direct URLs, you can go to this site that I'm going to share with you right now in the chat.
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It's also here at the top of the screen. And what you'll find there once you find your library name, you will be able to find all of your access URLs, your title lists, mark records for all of your ebooks because you have that fantastic collection.
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There's also tech documents if you're looking for any of database icons or widgets.
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We have all that information. You also have your customer success managers that can help with Gale resources. Training Center, tip sheets and tutorials.
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I've shared a couple here. Like here's one for biography. Here's another one that we have on Gale e-book searching.
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So we have tutorials. We have webinars. We have tutorials, we have webinars, we have resource guides, we have webinars, we have resource guides, we also have great marketing materials.
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So if you're looking to promote your discus resources, you can utilize our marketing materials that are already Created for you social media posts we have sample Templates, email templates, and blog posts available too that you can utilize.
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So use what we have available for you all. Access that information through the support site.
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And then customer success. Managers, they're the one-on-one support. I'll have their contact information.
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Again, first contact, the discus support. For help. But I do want to let you know that you have Gil customer success managers that are available for any Gale questions that you have.
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For today's training, the survey, here's a QR code. It should pop up when you leave me today on your screen.
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If you could fill that out for the folks at discus they would really appreciate it. But a QR code here is here on the screen.
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If you would like to use your phone and quickly answer those questions and I will also It should pop up fine because I added it, but let me grab the.
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URL for that too. Might as well share it.
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In your chat box. And again my name is Tammy Burke. I am your senior training consultant from Gale.
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I thank you so much for your time today and I hope you join us. Again in the future. Come back and talk to me again.
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If you have any questions, I can stay on the line, but otherwise have a great rest of your day.