Duration: 30 Minutes
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Hello! I’m Stacey Knibloe, your Gale trainer for North Carolina.
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Thanks for tuning into our NC Live webinar, supporting summer reading programs with gale resources from NC LIVE, glad to be with you virtually to take a look at the literature resource center which hopefully can help your summer reading support your summer reading programs.
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We're going to show some best practices for finding what you need in the resources and ideas for how you can put that to work and how you can share content right out to your readers.
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We're going to start with a quick overview of literature resource manner, just a little refresher, a reminder to resource manner, just a little refresher, a reminder for what you can expect to find there and then, as we always do, we'll wrap up with Gale support so where can
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you go after today, when you've got questions happy to maybe reach out to me or someone else on your team.
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We're always interested in feedback, but also, of course, want to make sure he had the answers to your questions.
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So let's go ahead and dive in. Feel free to ask questions along the way.
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So again, up first just a quick refresher on Gale.
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Literature, resource center. This is a database that has kind of long been loved at Gale and by our libraries it is full of content for readers, reading about their favorite authors, their favorite works but also kind of the study of literature.
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It's very popular in academic study settings for all of the literature, criticism, content.
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But it's a great tool in public libraries as well to help that person who just loves to read and wants to immerse themselves in in these worlds that are our authors.
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Create. So to give you some of the numbers, though, and some of the stats on what's included here.
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We do have quite a few titles from our literature.
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Criticism collections available in in the resource.
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It's not a one-to-one match with what you would find in the print, but we try to pull content.
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That's most popular. There's also quite a bit of content for biographies.
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So contemporary authors, is a great kind of simple bio to start with an author, but then you also have really in depth studies of the authors, lives coming from the dictionary of biography I think you find some other others as well, we have over 450 journals, and literary
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magazines, so great way to keep up with what's being recently published and what's upcoming.
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Of course, and then throughout the content, through those print titles and through the literary source, or the literary journals in the like, you're just kind of keeping up with what's happening in that world.
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But also get all of the content that folks submit for publishing, and into a literary journal so short stories, essays, comment pieces.
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Things like that. So it is a whole world of literature in this collection, and we are going to take a look at this resource.
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You're going to dive right in. I'd like to spend most of my time in the database if I can.
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So get out to the resources itself. So the homepage is a great place to inspire readers.
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We have, hey? Quick search! Of course you can always dive right in, but if you scroll to the bottom every time you log into the resource, we always have a featured author and a featured work right there on the homepage and then links in to view all of our feature authors, also
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of our featured works, and this can be a really interesting way for folks to discover something new to read.
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You know there were certain books I had to read in college and in and in high school, and that being told what to read was never my favorite thing.
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But then, as I read books, I did enjoy them. So we're you'll see, are a lot of those books, maybe, that you are similar to me, or certainly we didn't read everything that was out there in terms of classics, and things like that she could be a great way. To discover something maybe that you
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wish you'd read, but also, you know, discover a new author in your work in another way, to discover a new author, and you work in another way and inspire that kind of summer reading.
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That you wish you'd read, but also, you know, discover a new author, and you work in another way and inspire that kind of summer reading.
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The other great thing here, though, is, of course, summer reading programs help support literacy in our students.
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So you know, as they're reading in the summer, there might be books they need to read or need to pick from a list. This can give them little previews into those works.
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A lot of these are going to be from those recommended reading lists for the summer.
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Now reading level wise, you're probably looking at more high school reading level. And these feature works.
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But again, good way to kind of inspire and let them check off a few things from that recommended reading list for their English classes often, but really nice inspiration but of course we want to support other types of breeding as well.
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So things that kids are reading for fun for to check off the summer reading program lists and the like, and earn their awards.
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So you can always, of course, go ahead and just search on.
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Maybe a popular author, popular title, and I thought with, Are you there?
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God, it's me! Margaret movie coming out we might see some renewed interest in that title, or just Judy as a whole.
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Always a good pick list for a lot of kin books.
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So quick searching around Judy Bloom, and we are.
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I’m going to share a little later. So a preview of something we're doing for literature resource center in terms of updating its user interface and adding some new content.
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But for right now that's going to launch mid-summer or so, for right now, when you come into your search result, what you'll see is a breakdown of your results by content type.
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So across the top. There, we can see we've got hits in literature, criticism, biographies, topic and work overviews and so on.
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By default. We land right here on the literature criticism, and if I’m working with, say, an eighth grader, that may not be where I want to dive in, you know, to introduce them to the author liquor and get a little high level reading level wise and the like so what
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I might do instead is pop right over to the biography step.
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So we can just learn more about Judy. Bloom right off the bat, and we have biographies, of course, for her.
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But because this was a kind of a keyword search, it's our basic search that we're using there in the toolbar at the top.
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We're going to actually find bios from other people as well.
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Or maybe she's mentioned as an inspiration or something like that, but because of our relevance sort, it's really pushing those Judy bloom videos up to the top of the page.
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And again thinking about reading level. You can see the hit count, or sorry the word count for each biography that can kind of help you, you know side which Bios to jump into, depending on the level of the person you're working with.
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You can also go. Keep an eye out for contemporary authors that's a good basic bio.
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The word count is usually a little high, because, along with kind of the narrative portion of the bio, you look over here to the right we can see the article contents.
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We always list their awards, the writing, their list of works for the reading media adaptations, and so on.
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So the sidelights is kind of that narrative.
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Bio portion, so you can jump right into reading about their life.
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But this up top, you know, personal info is going to give, you some interesting stats list of their awards and then there are list of works, and those are going to be broken down.
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Usually by genre, and then in publication order. So if we really want to read her works in the order that she wrote them, we've got an easy list here and again, this is broken down by the John, or so her children's and white titles first and novels and then other as well, so media
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Adaptations again mentioned the other movie. But the are you there?
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Got it to me, Margaret movie. But of course there've been a few others, and then again, that sidelights, that narrative portion.
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So we can really dive into her life, and work as a writer.
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So this is great content to share. If this is, you know, an author, if you find it out there in here, you think that it's going to be popular with your summer reading program.
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You have the ability to kind of push content out to your users.
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So if you want, share this bio of Judy bloom, we have a few different ways.
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You can do it. One of those is the get link to it.
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Get link gives you a persistent URL or Perl.
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That you can then copy and paste and post wherever you want.
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It wherever it will take a URL. So if you send out a newsletter around the summer reading program, and one feature, Judy, you can embed that link.
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There if you've got a website that you're maintaining, and can add links to it can go there.
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You've got social media, you know, like a Facebook page or something like that.
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Post, the link there. The URL is again persistent, so always bring you back to the same place.
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Folks will land right in this biography, and usually not requiring any authentication.
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So that's even better. The less clicks the better.
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But get Link is a really powerful tool to drive people into these resources, and they land in great content, recommended by the library.
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So we've also got again thinking kind of the age of our reader here.
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The literature. Criticism can be again a little high level topic in work.
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Overviews are a great place to look for. Content for their younger reader, as well.
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So if they write a work and they want to dig a bit different, learn more about that work.
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The topic and work overviews are a good place to go, and one of the things you can look for are in the source field.
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There the from look for novels for students. Those are specifically written for students, middle school, high school age.
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So it is a great place to drive them to get a little deeper into the work that they're reading.
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But also, you know, give them a little bit of eye opening, maybe around the work things right?
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It's not just a plot summary that you're working with here.
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It's really looking and studying the work of it, as well as providing an overview.
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So those are really handy now, of course, you can also search on particular titles.
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You know we can come at this from an author's standpoint.
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A title. We can come at it from, you know, a topic.
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It's that's a really simple search box up there, top.
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So I’m going to go ahead and for a long way down by Jason Reynolds and you'll notice as I type, we do get a suggested search option, and you can always work with those as well.
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I’m kind of in the habit of just typing out my search.
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I'd like to when I’m serving on a title, particularly if it's you know, uses pretty common words in it.
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I like to throw the author in there as well, so that's what I’m going to do here.
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So Jason Reynolds, I've got to see him at a few different library conferences.
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He's such a great speaker, and of course I love his work.
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So we take a look at this. So again showing our results here at the top, we get a quick summary, and one of the things I was like to point out in literature resource center.
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When we're studying authors, we often have content.
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That is written by them. So you'll actually notice in this piece my father's final lesson author is, Jason Reynolds, so you can find content in this resource.
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We actually did a session a couple of years ago.
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Around this type of content in the resource where you can read, you know a book review from St.
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Margaret Atwood that she wrote. I think it was a review of something of Tony Morrison in the resource.
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So there's a lot of great content like that in the database, and this is in this case I think it's a the transcript of a lecture.
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So we can see kind of from the first sentence. But it's interesting to be able to read these others.
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Words kind of outside of their novels and other works. Right?
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So finding this content is really valuable. So it is again another way to kind of get to know your author a little more, but also expand on what you're reading.
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So good stuff there. And of course this is something I’m interested in.
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I can easily email it to myself, print download, send it off to the cloud.
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We've got all these tools here at the top of the article, but then also up in the toolbar, so you can always kind of take the content with you.
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So once mentioned the topic and work overviews as well again, just there's long way down.
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We've got an overview for it, so kind of can assist in reading as well.
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So students are maybe punching above when they're when they're reading the overviews can also give them insights and help them understand the work a little bit.
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So if we've got a middle reader, maybe reading this, which is more of a wide title, they can take advantage of the work summary or the work overview to get a better idea of some of the things happening in the in the work.
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So good stuff. There, now, we can also kind of keeping up with our Jason Reynolds just go ahead and do a general search on him as well, and talk a bit about our filters over here on the right.
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So we're sorting our results by relevance.
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So that does tend to push, you know, the content that's really about Jason Reynolds and his work to the top of our results. Screen.
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But the filter is always handy to really 0 in a bit more specifically so, you can always, if I wanted to, isolate to Jason rounds, you know, not pick up articles for maybe he's just a mentioned.
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I really want to isolate to those ones that are floating to the top of the receiver.
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Can use the person buyer about. I can use the subjects and kind of take advantage of those you can use.
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Name of work, and isolate, but the one I wanted to point out is actually my favorite is document type.
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So you have a lot of different types of content in this.
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In this resource. Of course we've got those broad categories of literature, criticism, biography, and so on.
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But within those there are certain types of articles as well particularly if I jump over to say reviews and news.
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You can see that document type of option really expands.
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If you think about a magazine or journal, you know there are going to be book reviews in there.
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There are going to be cover stories, and you know, just kind of looking at this list.
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Your editorials, and so on. My favorite item to pick here is interview right?
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Let's hear from the person that we're researching.
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So in the same way, we've got to, you know.
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Have a lecture that he gave. We can also find interviews with Jason Reynolds, so I like this most recent one coming from Junior Boom.
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She mentions what's on her reading stand back from him, but we have some others as well and if I pop over to primary sources and literary works, this is actually where you'll find a lot of interviews as well as those original short stories poems things like that appear in literary
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journals as well. So what we've got here for interviews, and often under primary sources and literary works are, going to be a lot of content from NPR, so you can see, weekend edition Saturday weekend edition Sunday and so on and if we Pop into
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these we link out to NPR’s website. So you can actually go hear the original audio.
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I’m more of a reader myself, though, so I love having the transcript here right in the resource.
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So I, I can basically read it rather than then listen.
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So the interview, content, I think, is always really interesting and again, a great way to get to know an awkward that you're reading so it's a good stuff.
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Here, jump into another entry. Now, what are the features as I’m reading through this interview?
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We have some tools that you can take advantage of to kind of.
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Mark up the article, and you know, just note things that are important things.
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Maybe if we're having a book discussion, I want to bring up.
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And that discussion something along those lines, as you are reading through, you can click and drag as if you're going to come.
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And these are books that are on his reading list, or a bit night science.
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There we go! Is I. Click in dragon and then let go the highlights and notes.
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Bar pops up and I can select color, and we can make a note to add to my reading list.
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If I want to read the same thing with Jason Reynolds.
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Right? So I can mark up this article, and I can again just click and drag.
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Can you zoom callers to note different things?
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Alright, and this becomes embedded in the article for me.
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So if I print issues the easy print here, it's going to highlight the text in my printout and at the bottom it reprints those highlighted passages and shows my notes that happens with any of these tools.
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So if I if I download it, if I send it to Google or Mic, or Rule, or Microsoft, if I email it, I’m going to get those highlights in notes as well, and what's great is if I send it to the cloud, okay, I’m already logged into my Google account send
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it over to Google Drive. We put it in a folder named after the resource that you're using.
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So we create a folder, the alert to resource center and there's that article I just sent over.
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And now this lives in the cloud. It's my document to do with what I like and I can share it with other.
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So if we're reading something, by Jason, Reynolds this summer as a group and maybe book club, I can share this out to everybody else in my club.
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They've got, of course, their own share tool. I can make notes here as well.
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They have their own comments and notes tool, you have your own document really to do with what you like.
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Now it's yours. It lives in your cloud, and what's great about this is it stays.
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There's no digital rights management. It doesn't disappear anything after a while like in, you know, saying eBook or something.
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This is something that's mine to do with what I like, and one of the ways you can use this actually, with their own comments and notes tool pop over to another entry here.
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This is a discussion we had about a work basically through with Google Dot.
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So little virtual book club here, and on our own time, you know, anybody can go into the desk at any point, make comments, make notes reply to other comments, and now we've got this little archive really of a discussion around a work.
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So I love the integration with the cloud. It just kind of makes endless possibilities for what you can do and share with your summer readers.
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So, and really anytime with book clubs and a like, it's really an engaging way to get folks talking about books.
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So again, always going to have that Google and Microsoft download.
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Now the highlights and notes that live here in the database are only going to live here during my session.
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We don't track user session we don't track user sessions across time with while you're in our database.
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That's your session. When you leave, we delete that content.
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So these highlights and notes will disappear when I leave the database.
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But again I sent them over to Google Drive, and they're going to live there until I need them.
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But that's an important point. If you create highlights and nodes, you need to take them with you before you go, because otherwise they disappear from the database because we're not again asking folks to kind of log in as themselves, here and keep track, of their content.
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No user data is really exchanged here in the database.
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Okay, really, handy feature. So let's keep going here.
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Couple more searches, and we'll wrap up. So, along with searching for authors and titles, you also have just great coverage of kind of what's happening in the literary world, and as become very popular, of course, to find new works on Instagram or TikTok or something like that so they of
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course, have kind of named those features so if I want to you know, kind of read about what's happening in that world, I can search on those terms.
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So just throwing it or in there to my search, so it'll pick up booksta or bookstagram.
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And it's already starting to hit literature, criticism, literature, criticism, kind of takes usually a few years to turn around so that you can you know, kind of have content, studied.
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And people speak on it so like cricket comes, you know, slowly.
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However, look at reviews and news, primary sources and literary works.
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We can kind of read a bit more, and what I like about this, too, is certainly from a librarian standpoint.
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You've got content. That's kind of covering the book industry right?
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So looking at sales. And what's popular, and things like that, and certainly help in your own collection development.
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So this is great content, for kind of almost professional development, as well.
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Within this resource you've got all these, you know, kind of publishing journals available, and again, can always share this content out.
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If I think this is valuable, I want to share it with a couple of other librarians.
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I can grab that. Get link, grab that URL, and just copy and paste that right into an email to share with your colleagues, and they'll be able to drop right into the search result that you perform.
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So there are couple of other searches I wanted to show before we wrap up, but I love our keyword, our basic search, I should say right here at the top.
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It doesn't a nice job. There's an algorithm that's running behind it.
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It tries to help get you the best results. But we have a couple of other ways to search that, I think are valuable, especially if you're looking for new authors in your title.
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Titles. So person search and work. Search here in the toolbar are ways that you can search when you don't actually have a author or title in mind what it lets you do in the person.
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Search is search on different characteristics. So ethnicity, gender, nationality.
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Maybe if you wanted to do more reading by international authors in search by people who you know their writers, of course, but maybe have another occupation.
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Look for book books written by, you know, an astronaut, or something like that.
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You certainly search by genre. Literary movement, subject, and theme, and so on.
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All these other kind of details about the authors. And this, let's you just kind of get along, really and kind of pick, you know, lists.
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So maybe want to do a bit more poetry reading so maybe I’m looking for email authors.
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And maybe I want to.
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Say American and genre. And as you start to type in some of these fields, it will then give you the index list of the terms to pick from so looks like we've got poetry as a whole year, but then also different types of poetry I’ll go with just poetry
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you can add more so if I want to.
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Actually, this will probably be a little redundant cause. It's very much appropriate as well.
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But let me grow another one and then it's like we're tying these together.
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It will get female authors that will be American, and they will either write in poetry or experimental poetry.
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And here's a list of 811 authors, and one of the things that if you look to the right, you can see the number of hits we have for each of them.
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So that kind of gives you an idea how much coverage we have.
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The other thing I like is, you can see when they're born.
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So is this more of a contemporary offer, are they, you know, more historical?
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You can see that range as well, but of course we can see they're all, you know, fitting our requirements of our search and then we can jump in.
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You can do the same thing with a work server this will just get you a list of works rather than a list of people and you'll notice there's a full text of work available button here the update that we're launching this summer.
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You're actually going to find more full text works in the database.
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We're adding some new content. But right now most of where that's coming from is a lot of the literary journals.
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The short stories, and so on. So you can actually try and isolate here and find certain types of work.
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And then you know some of the characteristics by the authors as well.
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But what we're kind of missing here is say, I am looking for a short story, but I want it to be about the spring time right?
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I can't really choose a topic here. I can't really choose a subject of the work.
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So that's where I like advanced survey. We want to do just a quick, short story.
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Read, you can come to advanced search and remember that document, type limiter I used before I can search by short story, and then I want to make sure that.
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Well, actually, you know what you don't have to.
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Now that I’m saying this, so I just selected by documents type, short story.
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I can actually leave it at that and click, search. And again remember our results.
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Page breaks down the content by the type of source it's coming from.
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So looks like we have the been able to repaint a short story here, and let print in the work overviews and so on.
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But really see where most of our kids are coming from that primary source, and literary works.
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So let me go ahead and click into that. And these are over 10,000 short stories I can work with now.
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I've maybe do want to narrow this a bit to something that you know it's about a particular topic. Again.
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That's where the filters come in handy. If I open up subjects I can choose.
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Okay, I want a short story on face. And it narrows me to 403 titles, and I can change the sort.
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Maybe to newest find something that's been more recently published.
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So here we go, winter 2022. The story about state that appeared in the Queen's Quarterly, and I've got that whole answer right.
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So advanced search is really handy. It's also where you can do just your most specific searching.
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The fields here allow you to choose exactly where you're searching.
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So with our basic search, they're up at the top.
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It tries to look in the hotspots. And again, there's an algorithm doing some work there with the field choices.
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You're really in charge of the search you're telling exactly where to search and what to search for.
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So remember I mentioned, we have things written by people in the resource.
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So maybe I’m looking for something written by Toni Morrison.
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And I can isolate. We scroll down a bit here again.
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I love all these filters to be able to narrow down so maybe we're looking for criticism.
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She's written looking for, you know, stuff that maybe appears in the literary journals, and of course, primary sources and literary works that could pop up there.
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And send that search out. And now I've got content.
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Written by Toni Morrison. And again could use get Link to point people to this content in the database, so folks could discover, you know, something knew that she's written here that maybe hadn't appeared in a bound or something so okay, lots of great content to discover.
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And certainly with the focus on students you know, they're going to be looking for plastic, of course, going to have that content here.
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But there's lots of fun stuff here to those interviews and the like, and course for recently published work you can always find great reviews and things like that.
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And again, the interviews with the authors, I think, they're always engaging for all ages.
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So this is just a wealth of content for your readers. You know.
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Summer reading or not so let's go ahead and wrap up here.
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I do want to share what's coming for literature, resource center and just a little reminder about the different ways you can get content to people right.
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So get link. We talked about a few times, love the Google and Microsoft integration.
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But you can also always just download. We have an integration with Google classroom.
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That's typically more of a school tool. But it's there.
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And give you a look at what's coming for literature.
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Resource center again this release that's coming this summer.
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Unfortunately, I don't have any screenshots to share, but what we're going to be doing with the content is really build it by hubs.
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So center a whole page around an author around a title and start out with, actually, I should get it.
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These on the slide here start out with more of an overview of the content, and then you get into the nitty gritty.
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So, rather than starting out with a piece of criticism, you're going to get more of an overview and we're going to add more full text and excerpted works into the resource.
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And again that foundational information. Sorry chef book at my bullets.
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A lot of order here that foundational information to start out on the work or topic are on, and then related topics to help students make connection.
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So, linking right off from that page into other authors or works that are similar, or could come up.
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And we're adding primary documents in the sense of more historical documents, not just original works, but primary documents to help support the work and the context of it.
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So basically building this resource into more of a starting place for users who need guidance that's what the new user experience is really about what we were finding is users can kind of get lost in the content of it with the way we display it.
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Now, so these hubs will really center them and provide more guidance into discovering content around works, authors, and literary topics.
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So keep an eye out for that. That would more information coming as well as more firm, dates around.
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When all this is happening. So as always go reach out to Gale for support about anything having to do with our resources, we have lots of great materials visit, support, tagle.com, slash, Nc live.
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Will prompt you to choose your institution from a list, and then the site will customize to your resources from Gale.
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So you don't have to weed through everything there that it doesn't apply.
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But we've got lots of great materials to help feel comfortable in the resource in the training center tools for utilities.
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For you to go out into outreach with. We have free marketing materials.
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You can download and print to help promote the readers, and then, of course, lots of great tech support as well.
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So mark records, and the like. Support your work in the library, and then, of course, you can always reach out to your gale team when you get questions or feedback, and certainly go for to ask them now.
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But I’m happy to grab an email, jump on a call to answer any questions you also want to be aware of your customer success manager at Yale.
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They're there to help you be successful with your gale resources, and can answer questions and take feedback as well.
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Keep on our blog. That's where we post a lot of product information and updates and success stories and things.
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Lots of good stuff. There, and of course we're on social media when you leave the webinar today, it'll be prompted to take our survey we'd love to hear your thoughts on the training and anything else you want to share with us so hopefully be able to take a
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few minutes to do that with that I’m going to go ahead and say, Thank you.
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Keep an eye out for more sessions, feel free to reach out and stick around.
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Of course, if you bet
Hello! I’m Stacey Knibloe, your Gale trainer for North Carolina.
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Thanks for tuning into our NC Live webinar, supporting summer reading programs with gale resources from NC LIVE, glad to be with you virtually to take a look at the literature resource center which hopefully can help your summer reading support your summer reading programs.
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We're going to show some best practices for finding what you need in the resources and ideas for how you can put that to work and how you can share content right out to your readers.
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We're going to start with a quick overview of literature resource manner, just a little refresher, a reminder to resource manner, just a little refresher, a reminder for what you can expect to find there and then, as we always do, we'll wrap up with Gale support so where can
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you go after today, when you've got questions happy to maybe reach out to me or someone else on your team.
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We're always interested in feedback, but also, of course, want to make sure he had the answers to your questions.
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So let's go ahead and dive in. Feel free to ask questions along the way.
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So again, up first just a quick refresher on Gale.
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Literature, resource center. This is a database that has kind of long been loved at Gale and by our libraries it is full of content for readers, reading about their favorite authors, their favorite works but also kind of the study of literature.
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It's very popular in academic study settings for all of the literature, criticism, content.
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But it's a great tool in public libraries as well to help that person who just loves to read and wants to immerse themselves in in these worlds that are our authors.
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Create. So to give you some of the numbers, though, and some of the stats on what's included here.
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We do have quite a few titles from our literature.
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Criticism collections available in in the resource.
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It's not a one-to-one match with what you would find in the print, but we try to pull content.
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That's most popular. There's also quite a bit of content for biographies.
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So contemporary authors, is a great kind of simple bio to start with an author, but then you also have really in depth studies of the authors, lives coming from the dictionary of biography I think you find some other others as well, we have over 450 journals, and literary
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magazines, so great way to keep up with what's being recently published and what's upcoming.
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Of course, and then throughout the content, through those print titles and through the literary source, or the literary journals in the like, you're just kind of keeping up with what's happening in that world.
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But also get all of the content that folks submit for publishing, and into a literary journal so short stories, essays, comment pieces.
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Things like that. So it is a whole world of literature in this collection, and we are going to take a look at this resource.
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You're going to dive right in. I'd like to spend most of my time in the database if I can.
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So get out to the resources itself. So the homepage is a great place to inspire readers.
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We have, hey? Quick search! Of course you can always dive right in, but if you scroll to the bottom every time you log into the resource, we always have a featured author and a featured work right there on the homepage and then links in to view all of our feature authors, also
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of our featured works, and this can be a really interesting way for folks to discover something new to read.
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You know there were certain books I had to read in college and in and in high school, and that being told what to read was never my favorite thing.
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But then, as I read books, I did enjoy them. So we're you'll see, are a lot of those books, maybe, that you are similar to me, or certainly we didn't read everything that was out there in terms of classics, and things like that she could be a great way. To discover something maybe that you
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wish you'd read, but also, you know, discover a new author in your work in another way, to discover a new author, and you work in another way and inspire that kind of summer reading.
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That you wish you'd read, but also, you know, discover a new author, and you work in another way and inspire that kind of summer reading.
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The other great thing here, though, is, of course, summer reading programs help support literacy in our students.
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So you know, as they're reading in the summer, there might be books they need to read or need to pick from a list. This can give them little previews into those works.
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A lot of these are going to be from those recommended reading lists for the summer.
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Now reading level wise, you're probably looking at more high school reading level. And these feature works.
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But again, good way to kind of inspire and let them check off a few things from that recommended reading list for their English classes often, but really nice inspiration but of course we want to support other types of breeding as well.
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So things that kids are reading for fun for to check off the summer reading program lists and the like, and earn their awards.
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So you can always, of course, go ahead and just search on.
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Maybe a popular author, popular title, and I thought with, Are you there?
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God, it's me! Margaret movie coming out we might see some renewed interest in that title, or just Judy as a whole.
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Always a good pick list for a lot of kin books.
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So quick searching around Judy Bloom, and we are.
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I’m going to share a little later. So a preview of something we're doing for literature resource center in terms of updating its user interface and adding some new content.
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But for right now that's going to launch mid-summer or so, for right now, when you come into your search result, what you'll see is a breakdown of your results by content type.
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So across the top. There, we can see we've got hits in literature, criticism, biographies, topic and work overviews and so on.
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By default. We land right here on the literature criticism, and if I’m working with, say, an eighth grader, that may not be where I want to dive in, you know, to introduce them to the author liquor and get a little high level reading level wise and the like so what
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I might do instead is pop right over to the biography step.
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So we can just learn more about Judy. Bloom right off the bat, and we have biographies, of course, for her.
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But because this was a kind of a keyword search, it's our basic search that we're using there in the toolbar at the top.
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We're going to actually find bios from other people as well.
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Or maybe she's mentioned as an inspiration or something like that, but because of our relevance sort, it's really pushing those Judy bloom videos up to the top of the page.
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And again thinking about reading level. You can see the hit count, or sorry the word count for each biography that can kind of help you, you know side which Bios to jump into, depending on the level of the person you're working with.
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You can also go. Keep an eye out for contemporary authors that's a good basic bio.
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The word count is usually a little high, because, along with kind of the narrative portion of the bio, you look over here to the right we can see the article contents.
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We always list their awards, the writing, their list of works for the reading media adaptations, and so on.
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So the sidelights is kind of that narrative.
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Bio portion, so you can jump right into reading about their life.
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But this up top, you know, personal info is going to give, you some interesting stats list of their awards and then there are list of works, and those are going to be broken down.
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Usually by genre, and then in publication order. So if we really want to read her works in the order that she wrote them, we've got an easy list here and again, this is broken down by the John, or so her children's and white titles first and novels and then other as well, so media
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Adaptations again mentioned the other movie. But the are you there?
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Got it to me, Margaret movie. But of course there've been a few others, and then again, that sidelights, that narrative portion.
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So we can really dive into her life, and work as a writer.
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So this is great content to share. If this is, you know, an author, if you find it out there in here, you think that it's going to be popular with your summer reading program.
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You have the ability to kind of push content out to your users.
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So if you want, share this bio of Judy bloom, we have a few different ways.
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You can do it. One of those is the get link to it.
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Get link gives you a persistent URL or Perl.
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That you can then copy and paste and post wherever you want.
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It wherever it will take a URL. So if you send out a newsletter around the summer reading program, and one feature, Judy, you can embed that link.
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There if you've got a website that you're maintaining, and can add links to it can go there.
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You've got social media, you know, like a Facebook page or something like that.
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Post, the link there. The URL is again persistent, so always bring you back to the same place.
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Folks will land right in this biography, and usually not requiring any authentication.
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So that's even better. The less clicks the better.
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But get Link is a really powerful tool to drive people into these resources, and they land in great content, recommended by the library.
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So we've also got again thinking kind of the age of our reader here.
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The literature. Criticism can be again a little high level topic in work.
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Overviews are a great place to look for. Content for their younger reader, as well.
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So if they write a work and they want to dig a bit different, learn more about that work.
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The topic and work overviews are a good place to go, and one of the things you can look for are in the source field.
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There the from look for novels for students. Those are specifically written for students, middle school, high school age.
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So it is a great place to drive them to get a little deeper into the work that they're reading.
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But also, you know, give them a little bit of eye opening, maybe around the work things right?
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It's not just a plot summary that you're working with here.
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It's really looking and studying the work of it, as well as providing an overview.
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So those are really handy now, of course, you can also search on particular titles.
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You know we can come at this from an author's standpoint.
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A title. We can come at it from, you know, a topic.
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It's that's a really simple search box up there, top.
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So I’m going to go ahead and for a long way down by Jason Reynolds and you'll notice as I type, we do get a suggested search option, and you can always work with those as well.
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I’m kind of in the habit of just typing out my search.
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I'd like to when I’m serving on a title, particularly if it's you know, uses pretty common words in it.
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I like to throw the author in there as well, so that's what I’m going to do here.
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So Jason Reynolds, I've got to see him at a few different library conferences.
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He's such a great speaker, and of course I love his work.
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So we take a look at this. So again showing our results here at the top, we get a quick summary, and one of the things I was like to point out in literature resource center.
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When we're studying authors, we often have content.
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That is written by them. So you'll actually notice in this piece my father's final lesson author is, Jason Reynolds, so you can find content in this resource.
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We actually did a session a couple of years ago.
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Around this type of content in the resource where you can read, you know a book review from St.
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Margaret Atwood that she wrote. I think it was a review of something of Tony Morrison in the resource.
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So there's a lot of great content like that in the database, and this is in this case I think it's a the transcript of a lecture.
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So we can see kind of from the first sentence. But it's interesting to be able to read these others.
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Words kind of outside of their novels and other works. Right?
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So finding this content is really valuable. So it is again another way to kind of get to know your author a little more, but also expand on what you're reading.
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So good stuff there. And of course this is something I’m interested in.
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I can easily email it to myself, print download, send it off to the cloud.
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We've got all these tools here at the top of the article, but then also up in the toolbar, so you can always kind of take the content with you.
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So once mentioned the topic and work overviews as well again, just there's long way down.
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We've got an overview for it, so kind of can assist in reading as well.
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So students are maybe punching above when they're when they're reading the overviews can also give them insights and help them understand the work a little bit.
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So if we've got a middle reader, maybe reading this, which is more of a wide title, they can take advantage of the work summary or the work overview to get a better idea of some of the things happening in the in the work.
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So good stuff. There, now, we can also kind of keeping up with our Jason Reynolds just go ahead and do a general search on him as well, and talk a bit about our filters over here on the right.
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So we're sorting our results by relevance.
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So that does tend to push, you know, the content that's really about Jason Reynolds and his work to the top of our results. Screen.
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But the filter is always handy to really 0 in a bit more specifically so, you can always, if I wanted to, isolate to Jason rounds, you know, not pick up articles for maybe he's just a mentioned.
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I really want to isolate to those ones that are floating to the top of the receiver.
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Can use the person buyer about. I can use the subjects and kind of take advantage of those you can use.
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Name of work, and isolate, but the one I wanted to point out is actually my favorite is document type.
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So you have a lot of different types of content in this.
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In this resource. Of course we've got those broad categories of literature, criticism, biography, and so on.
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But within those there are certain types of articles as well particularly if I jump over to say reviews and news.
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You can see that document type of option really expands.
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If you think about a magazine or journal, you know there are going to be book reviews in there.
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There are going to be cover stories, and you know, just kind of looking at this list.
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Your editorials, and so on. My favorite item to pick here is interview right?
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Let's hear from the person that we're researching.
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So in the same way, we've got to, you know.
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Have a lecture that he gave. We can also find interviews with Jason Reynolds, so I like this most recent one coming from Junior Boom.
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She mentions what's on her reading stand back from him, but we have some others as well and if I pop over to primary sources and literary works, this is actually where you'll find a lot of interviews as well as those original short stories poems things like that appear in literary
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journals as well. So what we've got here for interviews, and often under primary sources and literary works are, going to be a lot of content from NPR, so you can see, weekend edition Saturday weekend edition Sunday and so on and if we Pop into
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these we link out to NPR’s website. So you can actually go hear the original audio.
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I’m more of a reader myself, though, so I love having the transcript here right in the resource.
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So I, I can basically read it rather than then listen.
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So the interview, content, I think, is always really interesting and again, a great way to get to know an awkward that you're reading so it's a good stuff.
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Here, jump into another entry. Now, what are the features as I’m reading through this interview?
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We have some tools that you can take advantage of to kind of.
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Mark up the article, and you know, just note things that are important things.
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Maybe if we're having a book discussion, I want to bring up.
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And that discussion something along those lines, as you are reading through, you can click and drag as if you're going to come.
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And these are books that are on his reading list, or a bit night science.
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There we go! Is I. Click in dragon and then let go the highlights and notes.
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Bar pops up and I can select color, and we can make a note to add to my reading list.
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If I want to read the same thing with Jason Reynolds.
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Right? So I can mark up this article, and I can again just click and drag.
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Can you zoom callers to note different things?
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Alright, and this becomes embedded in the article for me.
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So if I print issues the easy print here, it's going to highlight the text in my printout and at the bottom it reprints those highlighted passages and shows my notes that happens with any of these tools.
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So if I if I download it, if I send it to Google or Mic, or Rule, or Microsoft, if I email it, I’m going to get those highlights in notes as well, and what's great is if I send it to the cloud, okay, I’m already logged into my Google account send
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it over to Google Drive. We put it in a folder named after the resource that you're using.
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So we create a folder, the alert to resource center and there's that article I just sent over.
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And now this lives in the cloud. It's my document to do with what I like and I can share it with other.
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So if we're reading something, by Jason, Reynolds this summer as a group and maybe book club, I can share this out to everybody else in my club.
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They've got, of course, their own share tool. I can make notes here as well.
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They have their own comments and notes tool, you have your own document really to do with what you like.
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Now it's yours. It lives in your cloud, and what's great about this is it stays.
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There's no digital rights management. It doesn't disappear anything after a while like in, you know, saying eBook or something.
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This is something that's mine to do with what I like, and one of the ways you can use this actually, with their own comments and notes tool pop over to another entry here.
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This is a discussion we had about a work basically through with Google Dot.
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So little virtual book club here, and on our own time, you know, anybody can go into the desk at any point, make comments, make notes reply to other comments, and now we've got this little archive really of a discussion around a work.
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So I love the integration with the cloud. It just kind of makes endless possibilities for what you can do and share with your summer readers.
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So, and really anytime with book clubs and a like, it's really an engaging way to get folks talking about books.
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So again, always going to have that Google and Microsoft download.
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Now the highlights and notes that live here in the database are only going to live here during my session.
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We don't track user session we don't track user sessions across time with while you're in our database.
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That's your session. When you leave, we delete that content.
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So these highlights and notes will disappear when I leave the database.
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But again I sent them over to Google Drive, and they're going to live there until I need them.
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But that's an important point. If you create highlights and nodes, you need to take them with you before you go, because otherwise they disappear from the database because we're not again asking folks to kind of log in as themselves, here and keep track, of their content.
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No user data is really exchanged here in the database.
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Okay, really, handy feature. So let's keep going here.
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Couple more searches, and we'll wrap up. So, along with searching for authors and titles, you also have just great coverage of kind of what's happening in the literary world, and as become very popular, of course, to find new works on Instagram or TikTok or something like that so they of
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course, have kind of named those features so if I want to you know, kind of read about what's happening in that world, I can search on those terms.
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So just throwing it or in there to my search, so it'll pick up booksta or bookstagram.
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And it's already starting to hit literature, criticism, literature, criticism, kind of takes usually a few years to turn around so that you can you know, kind of have content, studied.
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And people speak on it so like cricket comes, you know, slowly.
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However, look at reviews and news, primary sources and literary works.
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We can kind of read a bit more, and what I like about this, too, is certainly from a librarian standpoint.
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You've got content. That's kind of covering the book industry right?
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So looking at sales. And what's popular, and things like that, and certainly help in your own collection development.
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So this is great content, for kind of almost professional development, as well.
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Within this resource you've got all these, you know, kind of publishing journals available, and again, can always share this content out.
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If I think this is valuable, I want to share it with a couple of other librarians.
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I can grab that. Get link, grab that URL, and just copy and paste that right into an email to share with your colleagues, and they'll be able to drop right into the search result that you perform.
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So there are couple of other searches I wanted to show before we wrap up, but I love our keyword, our basic search, I should say right here at the top.
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It doesn't a nice job. There's an algorithm that's running behind it.
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It tries to help get you the best results. But we have a couple of other ways to search that, I think are valuable, especially if you're looking for new authors in your title.
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Titles. So person search and work. Search here in the toolbar are ways that you can search when you don't actually have a author or title in mind what it lets you do in the person.
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Search is search on different characteristics. So ethnicity, gender, nationality.
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Maybe if you wanted to do more reading by international authors in search by people who you know their writers, of course, but maybe have another occupation.
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Look for book books written by, you know, an astronaut, or something like that.
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You certainly search by genre. Literary movement, subject, and theme, and so on.
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All these other kind of details about the authors. And this, let's you just kind of get along, really and kind of pick, you know, lists.
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So maybe want to do a bit more poetry reading so maybe I’m looking for email authors.
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And maybe I want to.
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Say American and genre. And as you start to type in some of these fields, it will then give you the index list of the terms to pick from so looks like we've got poetry as a whole year, but then also different types of poetry I’ll go with just poetry
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you can add more so if I want to.
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Actually, this will probably be a little redundant cause. It's very much appropriate as well.
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But let me grow another one and then it's like we're tying these together.
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It will get female authors that will be American, and they will either write in poetry or experimental poetry.
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And here's a list of 811 authors, and one of the things that if you look to the right, you can see the number of hits we have for each of them.
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So that kind of gives you an idea how much coverage we have.
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The other thing I like is, you can see when they're born.
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So is this more of a contemporary offer, are they, you know, more historical?
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You can see that range as well, but of course we can see they're all, you know, fitting our requirements of our search and then we can jump in.
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You can do the same thing with a work server this will just get you a list of works rather than a list of people and you'll notice there's a full text of work available button here the update that we're launching this summer.
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You're actually going to find more full text works in the database.
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We're adding some new content. But right now most of where that's coming from is a lot of the literary journals.
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The short stories, and so on. So you can actually try and isolate here and find certain types of work.
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And then you know some of the characteristics by the authors as well.
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But what we're kind of missing here is say, I am looking for a short story, but I want it to be about the spring time right?
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I can't really choose a topic here. I can't really choose a subject of the work.
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So that's where I like advanced survey. We want to do just a quick, short story.
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Read, you can come to advanced search and remember that document, type limiter I used before I can search by short story, and then I want to make sure that.
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Well, actually, you know what you don't have to.
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Now that I’m saying this, so I just selected by documents type, short story.
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I can actually leave it at that and click, search. And again remember our results.
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Page breaks down the content by the type of source it's coming from.
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So looks like we have the been able to repaint a short story here, and let print in the work overviews and so on.
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But really see where most of our kids are coming from that primary source, and literary works.
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So let me go ahead and click into that. And these are over 10,000 short stories I can work with now.
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I've maybe do want to narrow this a bit to something that you know it's about a particular topic. Again.
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That's where the filters come in handy. If I open up subjects I can choose.
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Okay, I want a short story on face. And it narrows me to 403 titles, and I can change the sort.
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Maybe to newest find something that's been more recently published.
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So here we go, winter 2022. The story about state that appeared in the Queen's Quarterly, and I've got that whole answer right.
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So advanced search is really handy. It's also where you can do just your most specific searching.
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The fields here allow you to choose exactly where you're searching.
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So with our basic search, they're up at the top.
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It tries to look in the hotspots. And again, there's an algorithm doing some work there with the field choices.
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You're really in charge of the search you're telling exactly where to search and what to search for.
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So remember I mentioned, we have things written by people in the resource.
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So maybe I’m looking for something written by Toni Morrison.
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And I can isolate. We scroll down a bit here again.
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I love all these filters to be able to narrow down so maybe we're looking for criticism.
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She's written looking for, you know, stuff that maybe appears in the literary journals, and of course, primary sources and literary works that could pop up there.
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And send that search out. And now I've got content.
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Written by Toni Morrison. And again could use get Link to point people to this content in the database, so folks could discover, you know, something knew that she's written here that maybe hadn't appeared in a bound or something so okay, lots of great content to discover.
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And certainly with the focus on students you know, they're going to be looking for plastic, of course, going to have that content here.
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But there's lots of fun stuff here to those interviews and the like, and course for recently published work you can always find great reviews and things like that.
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And again, the interviews with the authors, I think, they're always engaging for all ages.
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So this is just a wealth of content for your readers. You know.
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Summer reading or not so let's go ahead and wrap up here.
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I do want to share what's coming for literature, resource center and just a little reminder about the different ways you can get content to people right.
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So get link. We talked about a few times, love the Google and Microsoft integration.
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But you can also always just download. We have an integration with Google classroom.
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That's typically more of a school tool. But it's there.
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And give you a look at what's coming for literature.
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Resource center again this release that's coming this summer.
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Unfortunately, I don't have any screenshots to share, but what we're going to be doing with the content is really build it by hubs.
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So center a whole page around an author around a title and start out with, actually, I should get it.
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These on the slide here start out with more of an overview of the content, and then you get into the nitty gritty.
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So, rather than starting out with a piece of criticism, you're going to get more of an overview and we're going to add more full text and excerpted works into the resource.
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And again that foundational information. Sorry chef book at my bullets.
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A lot of order here that foundational information to start out on the work or topic are on, and then related topics to help students make connection.
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So, linking right off from that page into other authors or works that are similar, or could come up.
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And we're adding primary documents in the sense of more historical documents, not just original works, but primary documents to help support the work and the context of it.
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So basically building this resource into more of a starting place for users who need guidance that's what the new user experience is really about what we were finding is users can kind of get lost in the content of it with the way we display it.
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Now, so these hubs will really center them and provide more guidance into discovering content around works, authors, and literary topics.
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So keep an eye out for that. That would more information coming as well as more firm, dates around.
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When all this is happening. So as always go reach out to Gale for support about anything having to do with our resources, we have lots of great materials visit, support, tagle.com, slash, Nc live.
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Will prompt you to choose your institution from a list, and then the site will customize to your resources from Gale.
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So you don't have to weed through everything there that it doesn't apply.
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But we've got lots of great materials to help feel comfortable in the resource in the training center tools for utilities.
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For you to go out into outreach with. We have free marketing materials.
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You can download and print to help promote the readers, and then, of course, lots of great tech support as well.
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So mark records, and the like. Support your work in the library, and then, of course, you can always reach out to your gale team when you get questions or feedback, and certainly go for to ask them now.
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But I’m happy to grab an email, jump on a call to answer any questions you also want to be aware of your customer success manager at Yale.
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They're there to help you be successful with your gale resources, and can answer questions and take feedback as well.
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Keep on our blog. That's where we post a lot of product information and updates and success stories and things.
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Lots of good stuff. There, and of course we're on social media when you leave the webinar today, it'll be prompted to take our survey we'd love to hear your thoughts on the training and anything else you want to share with us so hopefully be able to take a
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few minutes to do that with that I’m going to go ahead and say, Thank you.
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Keep an eye out for more sessions, feel free to reach out and stick around.
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Of course, if you bet