Duration: 30 Minutes
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Thank you again everyone for joining our session
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today. We're going to talk about how you can organize
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your Gale Ebooks collection with our new
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Bookshelf Curation tool.
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My name is Amber Winters and I'm one of the senior
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training consultants here with Gale.
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So a quick agenda for everyone. First, of course,
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I want to talk about some of those bookshelf
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curat curation features and which
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you'll find on the platform.
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But we'll spend the majority of the time actually walking
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through. So you can get a feel of where
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to find the tool, how the tool works, some of the different
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things you can do with the tool and then the
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very end of the session, we will have some time
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for any wrap up that we may have.
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If I don't get to your questions that are in
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the Q and A before we end the session,
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I'll be sure to answer them all at the end but should
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be able to get all of your questions answered as we
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move along today. So that ending will really
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just be about contact information for you.
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So while we're not digging into Gil E books all the way
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today since we're just looking at that curation tool.
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Um, I do just want to remind anyone on the line
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who's maybe a little bit newer to Gale ebooks.
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So Gale Ebooks is going to be your
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platform to access all of your Gale
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ebooks specifically. So, none of your other
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ebook collection, but just your ebooks that you've
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purchased from Gale and it is unlimited
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24 7 access for your users.
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So they won't need to worry about checking
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something out or waiting in line, they'll be
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able to access their ebooks at any time.
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These are nonfiction, ebooks
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focused um and content from elementary
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all the way to adult learners as well
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as professional development and things like that.
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On the platform, we have resource
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tools that are going to be really helpful for your patrons
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and your users. So things like translating
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the platform and the text, listening,
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highlights and notes, Google and Microsoft integration
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as well as a nice citation generator
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is going to help your users. So again, we're
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not looking into those today
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curation tool and this was previously
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called librarian login. So if you
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have been using guilty books for a while,
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it was librarian login, we changed the name
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a bit said, make it a little more obvious
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what this tool does.
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But this is going to be a separate login
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for anyone who kind of
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um handles
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the ebooks. So anyone who organizes
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or purchases or works with ebooks.
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You're going to be the ones who are going to use this login.
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So your users, your patrons, your students
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are really never going to need to be on
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this back end because they're not going to be organizing
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the content.
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And what's really nice is you can create as
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many new collections as you want to and you can base
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it on your learning community. So
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it may be a specific user need.
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Maybe you have a library initiative going on.
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You want to highlight the ebooks related
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to that. Maybe there's a special observance
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like Black History Month and you want to have
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a nice bookshelf with all of your uh
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ebooks related to Black History Month.
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Maybe you just bought new titles and you want them
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all pulled together in one collection for easy
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access. If I have anyone
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on the line from kind of the K 12 Arena,
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if you have a particular class who's coming
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into your library, working on a project,
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working on a specific unit, you can
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curate a bookshelf for them.
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So they'll really easily be able to get in. You can name it
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whatever you want to, so I could name it, Miss Winter's
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Us History Unit one,
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it can get really specific and
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add those books there. So then students can easily click
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in and say, OK, this is where I need to be. These
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are the ebooks I need to be looking at as opposed
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to going through your full collection.
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And what's great is you can toggle all of your collections
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or bookshelves. We kind of use collection and
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bookshelf
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interchangeably, but you can toggle all of those
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on and off throughout the year.
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So if you
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do as
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needed from your users
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on this pla platform, we also have
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a pull
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a bulk, a bulk list and upload
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it directly into your collection and not
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have to worry about that.
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And finally, in this bookshelf curation
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tool, we do have a link to purchasing ebooks.
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So as you go through and build your collections,
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build your bookshelves and you realize maybe
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something's missing, you have a gap that you need
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to fill. You can actually access
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our purchasing platform straight from
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the Gale Ebooks platform. We have a nice
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link to that now. So we'll take a look at that
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once we get in the platform here.
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So let's go ahead and take a look. Let's see how this
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works, how you can really organize your
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collection here While I'm switching
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over.
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Does anyone have any questions at all about
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the curation tool? Just what I went over briefly.
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OK. I don't see anything. So let's go ahead and
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get started.
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So I'm just on the home page of Guilt E Books.
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And now what I'm talking about bookshelves
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or talking about collections again, they're kind of
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those terms are used
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interchangeably. I'm
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talking about what you see on this left hand side
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here. So each of these different
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options and then they're listed in the middle of
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the page here as well. So you'll see, I have a science
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bookshelf, multicultural studies
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law, all that good stuff. So
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that's what we're going to be curating and that's what we're going
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to be changing to best suit our users needs
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to do that. Our bookshelf curation
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login is actually down here at
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the very bottom of your collections.
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So you're going to log in
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and this is your admin credentials. I'll pause
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here. If you don't know your admin credentials. Currently,
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you'll reach out to tech support and they'll be able to pro provide
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them to you at the end of this session.
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I will provide you with the,
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the email to tech support. So if you don't have your admin
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credentials yet, so you're not quite sure
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how to log into your bookshelf curation, reach
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out to them and they'll be able to give you that information.
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So lets go ahead and sign in now.
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Now, on this left hand side here,
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you'll see, I have all of those collections that were
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just listed on the Guilty Books home
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page. I have them listed here and you'll see
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some of them look a little different than others. You'll see some
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of them are just kind of this white entry.
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Some of them are white and they have this little bar next
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to them. Some are grayed out with a bar next
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to them and some are grayed out without a bar next to them.
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So any of these that you see that are just
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kind of white with no bar, those are
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bookshelves that gale
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has already created. So basically
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all of the ebooks you purchase are
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tagged to a specific subject.
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So when you purchase, let's say a collection
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of, history ebooks,
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want
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to all of these entries here
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that are this white box and have
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this little bar. That's something that I've created
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myself. So that's not something that Gail made.
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That's something that I decided was important for
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my collection with that little bar here.
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Anything that you see that's grayed out
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is something that is disabled. So
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while it's still on the back end here, like you'll see,
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I have a small business collection. It's
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still on the back end. But if I were to jump back to
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the Guilty books home page,
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I wouldn't see that for my users
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and I can toggle off both
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what I've created and the
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kind of defaults that Gail makes here. So you'll see,
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I have 41 ebooks that
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were defaulted tagging to
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art, but I decided to hide that.
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And maybe, you know, I bumped all of these
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arts into art and literature,
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I can hide those kind of as needed.
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Now, I can also drag and drop these here.
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So as I'm building them out, if I maybe want them
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in alphabetical order, I can do that. I
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can just click and drag the tiles
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and pull them forward here.
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If I want to highlight again, if we have
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a nice new collection that you just built,
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maybe you want your newest titles up top.
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you can do that and just pull those for it up
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top there.
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You can really customize this. However you like
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now, I'm going to click into
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the science here. So this is a collection
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that gale made. So all of the science
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ebooks I have on my platform just automatically funnel
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into this
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this category
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and I don't have the option to really edit
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this much. You'll see I can click and
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drag the title. So if I want to change
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how the titles appear on this bookshelf,
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I can do that.
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But really the only options I have to
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edit this are to turn it on and off, which
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you find up top here under this enabled section.
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So again, for anything that's gale created,
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really your options are to toggle on and off
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and to move your
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your titles. However, you see fit
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if I click into one that I've already made.
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So I'll click into American History here.
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Again, you can tell I made it because it's got this little
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blue bar.
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You see, I have some more options. Again, I still
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have the option to turn this on or off.
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So enabled or not,
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I'll be able to include my own name and this
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can be whatever you want it to
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be whatever works best for
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for your users, for your learning community.
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And I can also here add a description which is
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not available with the kind of gale generated
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categories. So I can give a little
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bit more detail if this is something that I made
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for a specific class, a specific
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teacher, I can put that in this description to let them
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know. Hey, these are the ebooks that you need for your
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project that's due
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at the end of November, I'll be able to put
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that here and give them some additional
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context to what this collection is.
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I will mention. Now, our save
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button is listed here. Make sure
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you hit save whenever you change anything,
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you don't want to change it and then click off
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and then, you know, actually forget about it
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since this is a, is a collection I created
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myself as opposed to an automated one,
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I can delete it. So if I know I'm never
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going to use this again,
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I can delete it. If you think there is
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ever a chance that you're going to use something again,
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I would suggest just toggling it off instead
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of deleting it. So even if it's something
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that's no longer relevant right now, if
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it could be relevant next year, you
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know, a few months from now, just toggle
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it off for now. So you don't have to re invent the wheel.
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You don't have to make it again
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and again, scrolling down. You're going to see all of the titles
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listed here. I only have six in
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this one. So you see it's a shorter list here,
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but just like I could do previously, I can drag
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and drop these
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whatever order I want.
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And what's nice is I can also delete these right here,
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which again, you will not see with the gill
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generated automated bookshelves.
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Now, let's actually build a bookshelf
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here. So we see what they look like now, you
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know, already built, but let's take a look at what
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it's going to to kind of do to build
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it. So
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I have two different options to
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building a new collection. I can hit the button up top
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here that says new collection or I can hit
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the blue button here that says new collection. They do the same
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thing. So we'll just hit this blue button.
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It defaults to being enabled. So as soon as
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you save this, your users are going to be able
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to see it. But again, you can toggle it off
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there if you want, I'll leave mine on.
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I'll enter my collection name. I today,
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I'll just do mental health.
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I can add a description or not. It's not required,
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but I can add a description. So again, as soon
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as you change anything, make sure you save it, appear
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in this corner.
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Now you see, once I save it, this is set,
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it's going to appear for my patrons.
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Um, but right now there are no ebooks in it. So
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it's just going to be blank, which of course is not
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great. So while you're working on this, you may
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want to toggle it off. Um, so they can't
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see, you know that blink bookshelf sitting
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there. Um I'm not gonna worry about it
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because this is my personal account. So I'm just gonna
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need to leave it enabled here.
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Now that I put this information and now you'll
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see, I have the option to either add titles
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or add ISBN list
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and this ISBN list. That's
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that bulk upload option that I mentioned earlier.
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We're going to take a look at that in just a little
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bit. But first I want to talk about adding titles.
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So if I click this,
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you see, I have a few different ways to search, I can
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search by a subject. So if I have, you
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know, mental health in mind, I can search by mental health
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if I know a specific title and I really want
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to narrow it down. That way I can do that
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by SBN by a description
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and you'll see we default the sorting by published
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date. So you're going to see the most recent ebooks
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in your collection first.
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If you want an A to Z instead
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you just drop down and choose a to Z. We'll just leave
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minus published date though. Um, and
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of course, I do want to mention here, your ebooks are
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going to look different than mine because you have different
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collections than me. So, just be aware
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if you're following along on your own or if you're going to be doing
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this, once you leave our session today,
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you're going to see different ebooks than me.
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It's expected.
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But let's just say my mental health because that's
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what's
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my collection is going to be. So, when
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I search that here, you'll see, I have quite
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a few different results. Looks like I have
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14 results here.
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I have the option to select all titles. So if
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I just know, you know, whatever, I just want all of these
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in there, I can do that or I can
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click on the ones that I want. So maybe
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I like these three.
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Maybe this one is helpful for me.
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Now, I've got just the four here
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and I can just hit ads like the titles.
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I like to hit save again while I'm just here.
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I'm one of those weird people that hit save way too
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often. But I'm gonna hit save
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here again.
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Now you'll see down below. I have those four titles
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I selected again. I can remove
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them and I can also drag and drop
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them whatever order I
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want them to be in.
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Now before I move on to the
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bulk upload feature. Are there any questions
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just about finding your
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ebooks and adding them to a bookshelf?
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Ok. I don't see any. So,
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we'll keep moving, then we'll talk about how you can bulk
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upload. So, if you have, you know, a hefty
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list of ebooks that you want included,
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you can use our A is ban list
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option.
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Now, when we add this list, you'll see it.
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We actually have this little clue that tells you how
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to do it. Um But you need a specific
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spreadsheet, a CS V file
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that we actually pull directly from Gale
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Ebooks.
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So how you're going to do that is you're going to run a search.
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It could be mental health, it could be whatever you need the
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search to be. You're gonna run a search and
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you're going to export your results.
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So when I say run a search, I actually mean on the
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standard Gale Ebooks platform.
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So I'm going to just use the basic search up top
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here. You can jump back to the home page if you want.
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It's the same thing, but I will run my search.
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I'll do it again for mental health
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and you'll see, this is actually going to pull me back into
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Gale Ebooks, just the standard. This
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is what your users see.
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So
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I'll pull this up. You'll see. I have a lot of results
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here. Um And I'm going to export
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results in my toolbar up top here
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and this is going to generate that exact
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sheet. We need to have that bulk upload
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and you can filter your results first. So obviously,
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I have 7900
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results which may be a little bit too much
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for me. So before I export these,
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I may want to narrow it down. Um If
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I am in a K 12 arena, I may
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want to narrow it down by lexile measure.
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Um If I'm at the public library, I may want to
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narrow down more specifically
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on subjects or interest level,
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I can do that. I'll just leave it for now.
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So I'll export my results once I have
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that, you'll
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see it defaults to a range
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of 1 to 1000. The max
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and range is going to be 10,000. I'll just
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leave it at 1000 for now
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and I will say this will not duplicate titles
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as well. So if you want to search,
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um each search result
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is going to show a specific chapter
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or section within an ebook.
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So there could be entries from one
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ebook multiple times. You know, there may be five
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chapters related to mental health in one ebook.
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Um If that's the case, it's not going
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to matter when you export these results, you're
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still only going to see each ebook once
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in your new collection.
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So, so you have a few different ways to export it.
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I just download it I personally think that's the
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easiest way to do it because then I know exactly where
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it is
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on my desktop.
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So we're going to download that here.
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You know, we see, we have it here.
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So we need to go back now to that
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bookshelf curation kind of platform.
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I'm just going to do that by clicking my banner up top
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here. That's gonna launch me back to the home page.
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And youll see here, my mental health collection
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is already established. This is the one that
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we just made here with my four ebooks
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and you'll see it's listed here,
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but we need to go back to our bookshelf
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curation tool, which is still
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down here. It's going to keep me logged
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in. So even though I jump back to the main
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ebooks platform,
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um I didn't sign up so I can manage
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my collections again.
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So now we have this, let's go
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back to my collection, my mental health
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one. Now,
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instead of hitting add titles, I'm going
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to add ISBN list
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and you'll see here. This is where I can browse
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or I have it right here in my download
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history.
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I can click and drag it
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and you'll see it's pretty instantaneous.
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Now, obviously, this is a huge collection
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because I didn't weed through these
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at all before I just bulk uploaded them.
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Um So again, you may want to filter ahead
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of time to make sure you're not getting things that
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are maybe a little bit
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out of the scope of your collection. But
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once you do run that search and get your
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filters going and have your collection, that's a really
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nice way to do that
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same deal. Even though this is bulk
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uploaded, I can get rid of individual ones
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as needed and I can still organize
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them as well.
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Again, I'm gonna hit save
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and then if I want to see this one more time to make
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sure this is what I want my users to
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see. I'll just hit my gale ebooks
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banner
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to go back to the user experience.
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You'll see. Now, I have 100 and seven
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mental health books listed in this
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bookshelf if I click the
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title, I'll be able to see all of them
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and I can click right into these if I want to, to read
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the full ebook or you'll see. Now
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up top here, my search bar says
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search within collection as opposed
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to searching the entire platform. So
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I also have the option to just search these ebooks
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that I've isolated for my users,
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which again is a nice feature to have.
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Now, I'm going to go back to manage my collections.
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And again, I can move this anywhere. I want
[00:19:51.479]
it to go. If maybe I don't actually want it at the top,
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maybe I want it in alphabetical order or
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I just prefer it to be down below. That's totally
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fine. Again, or I can delete
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it or I can disable it. If I disable
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it, you'll see it goes gray. They're not going, your
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users are not going to see it
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and turn it back on. If I decide to delete
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the collection,
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it does give me a warning or you wanna delete
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it. Yep.
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And it's gone like it was never
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there.
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It's a really simple way to kind of curate that
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and I did mention you have the ability to
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click in to purchase ebooks as well on this
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platform. So
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if you were clicking through, maybe you were
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building a mental health bookshelf
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and you realize, well, I don't have a lot of ebooks about
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anxiety or maybe
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a DH D and I really want to get some of those
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right up top here in this right hand corner,
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we have a little purchase ebooks button.
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What it's gonna do is it's going to launch you in a new tab to
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gail.com
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and that takes you right to our ebook collections.
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So you'll be able to go through, filter out to
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find
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whichever ebooks you need, you'll be able
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to sign in just like you normally would if you're purchasing
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ebooks
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and this feature is only found in that
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bookshelf curation because of course,
[00:21:04.348]
we don't want your users clicking into there because
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they can't purchase ebooks on their own. And it would just be
[00:21:09.180]
a little bit confusing. So this is only
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found in that bookshelf curation tool
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that we have.
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And that's what I have for you all today about our bookshelf
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curation tool. It's a pretty clean,
[00:21:24.189]
easy to use feature and
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it's always readily available for you again down
[00:21:28.588]
here, right under all of your collections, you'll
[00:21:30.699]
be able to sign right in
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and manage those.
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Now, if there are any questions, please feel free to
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put them in the Q and A, I haven't seen any pop up,
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but I do want to remind you that that's open while
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you're typing questions. If you are,
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I'm going to switch back over here just to give
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you some contact information. So if
[00:21:47.709]
you have some additional questions about this, that you
[00:21:49.759]
didn't think of on the session, I want you to be
[00:21:51.789]
able to reach out to someone. So
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again, my name is Amber Winters.
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I'm a senior training consultant here
[00:21:58.390]
with Gale. If you have a question about our session
[00:22:00.789]
today or about any recorded webinar,
[00:22:03.239]
feel free to send me an email. It's
[00:22:05.318]
[email protected]. If
[00:22:07.680]
you want to go over this a little bit more specifically
[00:22:10.318]
related to how you would best utilize it for
[00:22:12.469]
your learning community. So getting a little more
[00:22:14.699]
specific in your curation and best
[00:22:16.949]
practices, things like that, reach out to your
[00:22:19.068]
customer success manager. If you don't
[00:22:21.130]
know who that is, just send an email to
[00:22:23.549]
[email protected]
[00:22:24.539]
or message them
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directly. If you do know who it is.
[00:22:28.699]
If you want to talk a little bit more about Gale ebooks,
[00:22:30.868]
you can reach out to your sales consultant as well.
[00:22:32.930]
If you don't know who that is, you can go to support.gale.com/repfinder
[00:22:37.568]
and we'll get you to the right person
[00:22:40.269]
if you need additional support materials,
[00:22:42.469]
tip sheets about the bookshelf curation
[00:22:44.640]
tool, full webinars about
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Gale ebooks as a whole, as opposed to just the
[00:22:48.759]
curation tool feature today,
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go to our support site, which is support.gale.com.
[00:22:53.779]
You'll also find great marketing material to help you out
[00:22:55.880]
there as well.
[00:22:57.170]
And as I mentioned at the beginning of the session
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to sign into that bookshelf curation, you do
[00:23:01.318]
need your admin credentials. So
[00:23:03.449]
if you don't have those reach out to our technical
[00:23:05.459]
support team and they'll be able to help you out. Their
[00:23:07.630]
email is just [email protected]
[00:23:09.769]
They'll give you that information
[00:23:12.588]
and then you'll be ready to go to make
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your own bookshelves and your own collections.
[00:23:19.779]
Now, I haven't seen any questions come in, so I'm going
[00:23:21.818]
to assume we don't have any. So I'll end our session
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today. I appreciate everyone for being
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on the line and hopefully we'll see you in future sessions.
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Please enjoy the rest of your day.
Thank you again everyone for joining our session
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today. We're going to talk about how you can organize
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your Gale Ebooks collection with our new
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Bookshelf Curation tool.
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My name is Amber Winters and I'm one of the senior
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training consultants here with Gale.
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So a quick agenda for everyone. First, of course,
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I want to talk about some of those bookshelf
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curat curation features and which
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you'll find on the platform.
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But we'll spend the majority of the time actually walking
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through. So you can get a feel of where
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to find the tool, how the tool works, some of the different
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things you can do with the tool and then the
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very end of the session, we will have some time
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for any wrap up that we may have.
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If I don't get to your questions that are in
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the Q and A before we end the session,
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I'll be sure to answer them all at the end but should
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be able to get all of your questions answered as we
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move along today. So that ending will really
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just be about contact information for you.
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So while we're not digging into Gil E books all the way
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today since we're just looking at that curation tool.
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Um, I do just want to remind anyone on the line
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who's maybe a little bit newer to Gale ebooks.
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So Gale Ebooks is going to be your
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platform to access all of your Gale
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ebooks specifically. So, none of your other
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ebook collection, but just your ebooks that you've
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purchased from Gale and it is unlimited
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24 7 access for your users.
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So they won't need to worry about checking
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something out or waiting in line, they'll be
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able to access their ebooks at any time.
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These are nonfiction, ebooks
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focused um and content from elementary
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all the way to adult learners as well
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as professional development and things like that.
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On the platform, we have resource
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tools that are going to be really helpful for your patrons
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and your users. So things like translating
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the platform and the text, listening,
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highlights and notes, Google and Microsoft integration
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as well as a nice citation generator
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is going to help your users. So again, we're
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not looking into those today
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curation tool and this was previously
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called librarian login. So if you
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have been using guilty books for a while,
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it was librarian login, we changed the name
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a bit said, make it a little more obvious
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what this tool does.
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But this is going to be a separate login
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for anyone who kind of
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um handles
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the ebooks. So anyone who organizes
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or purchases or works with ebooks.
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You're going to be the ones who are going to use this login.
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So your users, your patrons, your students
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are really never going to need to be on
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this back end because they're not going to be organizing
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the content.
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And what's really nice is you can create as
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many new collections as you want to and you can base
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it on your learning community. So
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it may be a specific user need.
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Maybe you have a library initiative going on.
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You want to highlight the ebooks related
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to that. Maybe there's a special observance
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like Black History Month and you want to have
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a nice bookshelf with all of your uh
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ebooks related to Black History Month.
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Maybe you just bought new titles and you want them
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all pulled together in one collection for easy
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access. If I have anyone
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on the line from kind of the K 12 Arena,
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if you have a particular class who's coming
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into your library, working on a project,
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working on a specific unit, you can
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curate a bookshelf for them.
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So they'll really easily be able to get in. You can name it
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whatever you want to, so I could name it, Miss Winter's
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Us History Unit one,
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it can get really specific and
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add those books there. So then students can easily click
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in and say, OK, this is where I need to be. These
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are the ebooks I need to be looking at as opposed
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to going through your full collection.
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And what's great is you can toggle all of your collections
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or bookshelves. We kind of use collection and
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bookshelf
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interchangeably, but you can toggle all of those
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on and off throughout the year.
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So if you
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do as
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needed from your users
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on this pla platform, we also have
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a pull
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a bulk, a bulk list and upload
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it directly into your collection and not
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have to worry about that.
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And finally, in this bookshelf curation
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tool, we do have a link to purchasing ebooks.
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So as you go through and build your collections,
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build your bookshelves and you realize maybe
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something's missing, you have a gap that you need
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to fill. You can actually access
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our purchasing platform straight from
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the Gale Ebooks platform. We have a nice
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link to that now. So we'll take a look at that
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once we get in the platform here.
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So let's go ahead and take a look. Let's see how this
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works, how you can really organize your
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collection here While I'm switching
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over.
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Does anyone have any questions at all about
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the curation tool? Just what I went over briefly.
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OK. I don't see anything. So let's go ahead and
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get started.
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So I'm just on the home page of Guilt E Books.
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And now what I'm talking about bookshelves
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or talking about collections again, they're kind of
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those terms are used
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interchangeably. I'm
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talking about what you see on this left hand side
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here. So each of these different
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options and then they're listed in the middle of
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the page here as well. So you'll see, I have a science
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bookshelf, multicultural studies
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law, all that good stuff. So
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that's what we're going to be curating and that's what we're going
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to be changing to best suit our users needs
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to do that. Our bookshelf curation
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login is actually down here at
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the very bottom of your collections.
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So you're going to log in
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and this is your admin credentials. I'll pause
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here. If you don't know your admin credentials. Currently,
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you'll reach out to tech support and they'll be able to pro provide
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them to you at the end of this session.
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I will provide you with the,
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the email to tech support. So if you don't have your admin
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credentials yet, so you're not quite sure
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how to log into your bookshelf curation, reach
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out to them and they'll be able to give you that information.
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So lets go ahead and sign in now.
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Now, on this left hand side here,
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you'll see, I have all of those collections that were
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just listed on the Guilty Books home
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page. I have them listed here and you'll see
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some of them look a little different than others. You'll see some
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of them are just kind of this white entry.
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Some of them are white and they have this little bar next
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to them. Some are grayed out with a bar next
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to them and some are grayed out without a bar next to them.
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So any of these that you see that are just
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kind of white with no bar, those are
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bookshelves that gale
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has already created. So basically
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all of the ebooks you purchase are
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tagged to a specific subject.
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So when you purchase, let's say a collection
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of, history ebooks,
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want
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to all of these entries here
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that are this white box and have
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this little bar. That's something that I've created
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myself. So that's not something that Gail made.
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That's something that I decided was important for
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my collection with that little bar here.
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Anything that you see that's grayed out
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is something that is disabled. So
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while it's still on the back end here, like you'll see,
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I have a small business collection. It's
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still on the back end. But if I were to jump back to
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the Guilty books home page,
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I wouldn't see that for my users
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and I can toggle off both
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what I've created and the
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kind of defaults that Gail makes here. So you'll see,
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I have 41 ebooks that
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were defaulted tagging to
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art, but I decided to hide that.
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And maybe, you know, I bumped all of these
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arts into art and literature,
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I can hide those kind of as needed.
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Now, I can also drag and drop these here.
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So as I'm building them out, if I maybe want them
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in alphabetical order, I can do that. I
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can just click and drag the tiles
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and pull them forward here.
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If I want to highlight again, if we have
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a nice new collection that you just built,
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maybe you want your newest titles up top.
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you can do that and just pull those for it up
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top there.
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You can really customize this. However you like
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now, I'm going to click into
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the science here. So this is a collection
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that gale made. So all of the science
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ebooks I have on my platform just automatically funnel
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into this
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this category
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and I don't have the option to really edit
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this much. You'll see I can click and
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drag the title. So if I want to change
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how the titles appear on this bookshelf,
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I can do that.
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But really the only options I have to
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edit this are to turn it on and off, which
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you find up top here under this enabled section.
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So again, for anything that's gale created,
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really your options are to toggle on and off
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and to move your
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your titles. However, you see fit
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if I click into one that I've already made.
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So I'll click into American History here.
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Again, you can tell I made it because it's got this little
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blue bar.
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You see, I have some more options. Again, I still
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have the option to turn this on or off.
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So enabled or not,
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I'll be able to include my own name and this
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can be whatever you want it to
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be whatever works best for
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for your users, for your learning community.
[00:10:00.460]
And I can also here add a description which is
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not available with the kind of gale generated
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categories. So I can give a little
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bit more detail if this is something that I made
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for a specific class, a specific
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teacher, I can put that in this description to let them
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know. Hey, these are the ebooks that you need for your
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project that's due
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at the end of November, I'll be able to put
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that here and give them some additional
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context to what this collection is.
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I will mention. Now, our save
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button is listed here. Make sure
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you hit save whenever you change anything,
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you don't want to change it and then click off
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and then, you know, actually forget about it
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since this is a, is a collection I created
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myself as opposed to an automated one,
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I can delete it. So if I know I'm never
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going to use this again,
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I can delete it. If you think there is
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ever a chance that you're going to use something again,
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I would suggest just toggling it off instead
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of deleting it. So even if it's something
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that's no longer relevant right now, if
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it could be relevant next year, you
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know, a few months from now, just toggle
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it off for now. So you don't have to re invent the wheel.
[00:11:02.879]
You don't have to make it again
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and again, scrolling down. You're going to see all of the titles
[00:11:08.288]
listed here. I only have six in
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this one. So you see it's a shorter list here,
[00:11:12.500]
but just like I could do previously, I can drag
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and drop these
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whatever order I want.
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And what's nice is I can also delete these right here,
[00:11:23.690]
which again, you will not see with the gill
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generated automated bookshelves.
[00:11:30.340]
Now, let's actually build a bookshelf
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here. So we see what they look like now, you
[00:11:34.450]
know, already built, but let's take a look at what
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it's going to to kind of do to build
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it. So
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I have two different options to
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building a new collection. I can hit the button up top
[00:11:43.629]
here that says new collection or I can hit
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the blue button here that says new collection. They do the same
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thing. So we'll just hit this blue button.
[00:11:51.750]
It defaults to being enabled. So as soon as
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you save this, your users are going to be able
[00:11:55.940]
to see it. But again, you can toggle it off
[00:11:58.109]
there if you want, I'll leave mine on.
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I'll enter my collection name. I today,
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I'll just do mental health.
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I can add a description or not. It's not required,
[00:12:12.840]
but I can add a description. So again, as soon
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as you change anything, make sure you save it, appear
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in this corner.
[00:12:20.298]
Now you see, once I save it, this is set,
[00:12:22.700]
it's going to appear for my patrons.
[00:12:25.029]
Um, but right now there are no ebooks in it. So
[00:12:27.168]
it's just going to be blank, which of course is not
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great. So while you're working on this, you may
[00:12:31.288]
want to toggle it off. Um, so they can't
[00:12:33.548]
see, you know that blink bookshelf sitting
[00:12:35.570]
there. Um I'm not gonna worry about it
[00:12:37.609]
because this is my personal account. So I'm just gonna
[00:12:39.678]
need to leave it enabled here.
[00:12:41.460]
Now that I put this information and now you'll
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see, I have the option to either add titles
[00:12:45.989]
or add ISBN list
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and this ISBN list. That's
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that bulk upload option that I mentioned earlier.
[00:12:52.469]
We're going to take a look at that in just a little
[00:12:54.570]
bit. But first I want to talk about adding titles.
[00:12:56.830]
So if I click this,
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you see, I have a few different ways to search, I can
[00:13:00.690]
search by a subject. So if I have, you
[00:13:02.710]
know, mental health in mind, I can search by mental health
[00:13:05.288]
if I know a specific title and I really want
[00:13:07.369]
to narrow it down. That way I can do that
[00:13:09.418]
by SBN by a description
[00:13:12.139]
and you'll see we default the sorting by published
[00:13:14.200]
date. So you're going to see the most recent ebooks
[00:13:16.639]
in your collection first.
[00:13:18.599]
If you want an A to Z instead
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you just drop down and choose a to Z. We'll just leave
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minus published date though. Um, and
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of course, I do want to mention here, your ebooks are
[00:13:26.928]
going to look different than mine because you have different
[00:13:29.149]
collections than me. So, just be aware
[00:13:31.340]
if you're following along on your own or if you're going to be doing
[00:13:33.548]
this, once you leave our session today,
[00:13:35.830]
you're going to see different ebooks than me.
[00:13:37.889]
It's expected.
[00:13:39.460]
But let's just say my mental health because that's
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what's
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my collection is going to be. So, when
[00:13:45.609]
I search that here, you'll see, I have quite
[00:13:47.859]
a few different results. Looks like I have
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14 results here.
[00:13:52.960]
I have the option to select all titles. So if
[00:13:55.038]
I just know, you know, whatever, I just want all of these
[00:13:57.210]
in there, I can do that or I can
[00:13:59.349]
click on the ones that I want. So maybe
[00:14:01.658]
I like these three.
[00:14:04.129]
Maybe this one is helpful for me.
[00:14:07.519]
Now, I've got just the four here
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and I can just hit ads like the titles.
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I like to hit save again while I'm just here.
[00:14:16.009]
I'm one of those weird people that hit save way too
[00:14:18.038]
often. But I'm gonna hit save
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here again.
[00:14:22.070]
Now you'll see down below. I have those four titles
[00:14:24.428]
I selected again. I can remove
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them and I can also drag and drop
[00:14:28.639]
them whatever order I
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want them to be in.
[00:14:35.548]
Now before I move on to the
[00:14:37.759]
bulk upload feature. Are there any questions
[00:14:39.889]
just about finding your
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ebooks and adding them to a bookshelf?
[00:14:49.080]
Ok. I don't see any. So,
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we'll keep moving, then we'll talk about how you can bulk
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upload. So, if you have, you know, a hefty
[00:14:56.190]
list of ebooks that you want included,
[00:14:58.678]
you can use our A is ban list
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option.
[00:15:01.889]
Now, when we add this list, you'll see it.
[00:15:03.908]
We actually have this little clue that tells you how
[00:15:05.950]
to do it. Um But you need a specific
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spreadsheet, a CS V file
[00:15:10.460]
that we actually pull directly from Gale
[00:15:12.759]
Ebooks.
[00:15:14.509]
So how you're going to do that is you're going to run a search.
[00:15:17.869]
It could be mental health, it could be whatever you need the
[00:15:19.899]
search to be. You're gonna run a search and
[00:15:21.940]
you're going to export your results.
[00:15:24.639]
So when I say run a search, I actually mean on the
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standard Gale Ebooks platform.
[00:15:28.989]
So I'm going to just use the basic search up top
[00:15:31.200]
here. You can jump back to the home page if you want.
[00:15:33.428]
It's the same thing, but I will run my search.
[00:15:35.590]
I'll do it again for mental health
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and you'll see, this is actually going to pull me back into
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Gale Ebooks, just the standard. This
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is what your users see.
[00:15:45.869]
So
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I'll pull this up. You'll see. I have a lot of results
[00:15:49.158]
here. Um And I'm going to export
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results in my toolbar up top here
[00:15:54.489]
and this is going to generate that exact
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sheet. We need to have that bulk upload
[00:15:59.519]
and you can filter your results first. So obviously,
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I have 7900
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results which may be a little bit too much
[00:16:06.590]
for me. So before I export these,
[00:16:08.840]
I may want to narrow it down. Um If
[00:16:11.038]
I am in a K 12 arena, I may
[00:16:13.070]
want to narrow it down by lexile measure.
[00:16:15.349]
Um If I'm at the public library, I may want to
[00:16:17.359]
narrow down more specifically
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on subjects or interest level,
[00:16:21.678]
I can do that. I'll just leave it for now.
[00:16:24.440]
So I'll export my results once I have
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that, you'll
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see it defaults to a range
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of 1 to 1000. The max
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and range is going to be 10,000. I'll just
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leave it at 1000 for now
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and I will say this will not duplicate titles
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as well. So if you want to search,
[00:16:43.690]
um each search result
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is going to show a specific chapter
[00:16:48.580]
or section within an ebook.
[00:16:50.710]
So there could be entries from one
[00:16:52.759]
ebook multiple times. You know, there may be five
[00:16:54.788]
chapters related to mental health in one ebook.
[00:16:57.200]
Um If that's the case, it's not going
[00:16:59.308]
to matter when you export these results, you're
[00:17:01.359]
still only going to see each ebook once
[00:17:03.960]
in your new collection.
[00:17:06.368]
So, so you have a few different ways to export it.
[00:17:08.500]
I just download it I personally think that's the
[00:17:10.549]
easiest way to do it because then I know exactly where
[00:17:12.680]
it is
[00:17:14.019]
on my desktop.
[00:17:17.000]
So we're going to download that here.
[00:17:19.078]
You know, we see, we have it here.
[00:17:21.130]
So we need to go back now to that
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bookshelf curation kind of platform.
[00:17:26.348]
I'm just going to do that by clicking my banner up top
[00:17:28.630]
here. That's gonna launch me back to the home page.
[00:17:31.979]
And youll see here, my mental health collection
[00:17:34.059]
is already established. This is the one that
[00:17:36.160]
we just made here with my four ebooks
[00:17:39.229]
and you'll see it's listed here,
[00:17:41.549]
but we need to go back to our bookshelf
[00:17:43.989]
curation tool, which is still
[00:17:46.009]
down here. It's going to keep me logged
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in. So even though I jump back to the main
[00:17:50.118]
ebooks platform,
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um I didn't sign up so I can manage
[00:17:53.809]
my collections again.
[00:17:56.838]
So now we have this, let's go
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back to my collection, my mental health
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one. Now,
[00:18:03.259]
instead of hitting add titles, I'm going
[00:18:05.269]
to add ISBN list
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and you'll see here. This is where I can browse
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or I have it right here in my download
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history.
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I can click and drag it
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and you'll see it's pretty instantaneous.
[00:18:21.338]
Now, obviously, this is a huge collection
[00:18:23.380]
because I didn't weed through these
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at all before I just bulk uploaded them.
[00:18:28.029]
Um So again, you may want to filter ahead
[00:18:30.140]
of time to make sure you're not getting things that
[00:18:32.209]
are maybe a little bit
[00:18:34.259]
out of the scope of your collection. But
[00:18:36.838]
once you do run that search and get your
[00:18:38.949]
filters going and have your collection, that's a really
[00:18:41.209]
nice way to do that
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same deal. Even though this is bulk
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uploaded, I can get rid of individual ones
[00:18:48.368]
as needed and I can still organize
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them as well.
[00:18:57.000]
Again, I'm gonna hit save
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and then if I want to see this one more time to make
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sure this is what I want my users to
[00:19:03.959]
see. I'll just hit my gale ebooks
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banner
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to go back to the user experience.
[00:19:10.219]
You'll see. Now, I have 100 and seven
[00:19:12.239]
mental health books listed in this
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bookshelf if I click the
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title, I'll be able to see all of them
[00:19:24.818]
and I can click right into these if I want to, to read
[00:19:26.828]
the full ebook or you'll see. Now
[00:19:28.880]
up top here, my search bar says
[00:19:31.009]
search within collection as opposed
[00:19:33.130]
to searching the entire platform. So
[00:19:35.189]
I also have the option to just search these ebooks
[00:19:37.509]
that I've isolated for my users,
[00:19:39.618]
which again is a nice feature to have.
[00:19:45.380]
Now, I'm going to go back to manage my collections.
[00:19:49.459]
And again, I can move this anywhere. I want
[00:19:51.479]
it to go. If maybe I don't actually want it at the top,
[00:19:53.910]
maybe I want it in alphabetical order or
[00:19:56.318]
I just prefer it to be down below. That's totally
[00:19:58.549]
fine. Again, or I can delete
[00:20:00.689]
it or I can disable it. If I disable
[00:20:03.170]
it, you'll see it goes gray. They're not going, your
[00:20:05.400]
users are not going to see it
[00:20:07.098]
and turn it back on. If I decide to delete
[00:20:09.250]
the collection,
[00:20:10.400]
it does give me a warning or you wanna delete
[00:20:12.588]
it. Yep.
[00:20:14.588]
And it's gone like it was never
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there.
[00:20:18.299]
It's a really simple way to kind of curate that
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and I did mention you have the ability to
[00:20:23.640]
click in to purchase ebooks as well on this
[00:20:25.750]
platform. So
[00:20:27.049]
if you were clicking through, maybe you were
[00:20:29.118]
building a mental health bookshelf
[00:20:31.250]
and you realize, well, I don't have a lot of ebooks about
[00:20:33.979]
anxiety or maybe
[00:20:36.039]
a DH D and I really want to get some of those
[00:20:38.660]
right up top here in this right hand corner,
[00:20:41.358]
we have a little purchase ebooks button.
[00:20:43.868]
What it's gonna do is it's going to launch you in a new tab to
[00:20:45.969]
gail.com
[00:20:47.338]
and that takes you right to our ebook collections.
[00:20:49.699]
So you'll be able to go through, filter out to
[00:20:51.779]
find
[00:20:52.670]
whichever ebooks you need, you'll be able
[00:20:54.699]
to sign in just like you normally would if you're purchasing
[00:20:56.880]
ebooks
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and this feature is only found in that
[00:21:02.098]
bookshelf curation because of course,
[00:21:04.348]
we don't want your users clicking into there because
[00:21:07.150]
they can't purchase ebooks on their own. And it would just be
[00:21:09.180]
a little bit confusing. So this is only
[00:21:11.250]
found in that bookshelf curation tool
[00:21:13.509]
that we have.
[00:21:19.140]
And that's what I have for you all today about our bookshelf
[00:21:21.660]
curation tool. It's a pretty clean,
[00:21:24.189]
easy to use feature and
[00:21:26.279]
it's always readily available for you again down
[00:21:28.588]
here, right under all of your collections, you'll
[00:21:30.699]
be able to sign right in
[00:21:32.108]
and manage those.
[00:21:34.809]
Now, if there are any questions, please feel free to
[00:21:36.858]
put them in the Q and A, I haven't seen any pop up,
[00:21:39.000]
but I do want to remind you that that's open while
[00:21:41.479]
you're typing questions. If you are,
[00:21:43.430]
I'm going to switch back over here just to give
[00:21:45.559]
you some contact information. So if
[00:21:47.709]
you have some additional questions about this, that you
[00:21:49.759]
didn't think of on the session, I want you to be
[00:21:51.789]
able to reach out to someone. So
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again, my name is Amber Winters.
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I'm a senior training consultant here
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with Gale. If you have a question about our session
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today or about any recorded webinar,
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feel free to send me an email. It's
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[email protected]. If
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you want to go over this a little bit more specifically
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related to how you would best utilize it for
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your learning community. So getting a little more
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specific in your curation and best
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practices, things like that, reach out to your
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customer success manager. If you don't
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know who that is, just send an email to
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[email protected]
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or message them
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directly. If you do know who it is.
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If you want to talk a little bit more about Gale ebooks,
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you can reach out to your sales consultant as well.
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If you don't know who that is, you can go to support.gale.com/repfinder
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and we'll get you to the right person
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if you need additional support materials,
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tip sheets about the bookshelf curation
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tool, full webinars about
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Gale ebooks as a whole, as opposed to just the
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curation tool feature today,
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go to our support site, which is support.gale.com.
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You'll also find great marketing material to help you out
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there as well.
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And as I mentioned at the beginning of the session
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to sign into that bookshelf curation, you do
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need your admin credentials. So
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if you don't have those reach out to our technical
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support team and they'll be able to help you out. Their
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email is just [email protected]
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They'll give you that information
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and then you'll be ready to go to make
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your own bookshelves and your own collections.
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Now, I haven't seen any questions come in, so I'm going
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to assume we don't have any. So I'll end our session
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today. I appreciate everyone for being
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on the line and hopefully we'll see you in future sessions.
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Please enjoy the rest of your day.