Gale Training

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Thank you again everyone for being on

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the line today.

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So today we're going to talk about exploring

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the history of slavery within

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Gale In Context: U.S. History

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My name is Amber Winters and I am your training

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consultant for the day

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and I have a quick agenda here for you. So first

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I want to talk about Gale In Context: U.S. History

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us history, what it is,

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what you can find within it. We'll talk

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about the resource a bit and we'll walk through

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the different bits of content with you to make

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sure you understand what's available.

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And finally, we will actually dive into the resource

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to see some of the different workflows your users are

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going to be utilizing as well

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as provide you with a few tips that may

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be helpful that you can pass along to whoever

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is going to be using this resource.

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Again, at the very end of the session, we should, should

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have time for any questions that come up

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but feel free to put them in the Q and A when you think

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of them and I should be able to answer them as

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we move along and it will have some contact

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information for you at the very end of the session

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as well. So if you have additional questions that I couldn't

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answer or that are specific

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to something else, you can feel free to reach out to those

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individuals.

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So let's go ahead and get started here.

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So Gaelic context us history just

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in a nutshell provides coverage on the most

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significant people, events and topics

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within us history.

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We have quite a few different content types available,

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especially um

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some that are going to be beneficial when we're talking about

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the history of slavery

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include our reference articles which are going to give

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a nice overview or a nice background

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of whatever topic your users are going to be studying.

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So you'll see here, I've pulled forward a reference

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article related to slave

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rebellions. So this is going to give them kind

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of their starting points to let them research

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further and get more fine tuned

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details and things like that.

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We also have great biographies in here.

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So if they're learning about whatever topic

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and they see a name they're not familiar with, they can

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stay right here in this platform and

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pull up a do a excuse me, a biography

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about that individual.

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We also have some great historical timelines

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within the resource. We have this not just

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for events. So you see this one is just

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a timeline of slavery, but we also have

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them for individuals as well. So not

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only will we get written biographies like

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the one you see here, but we'll also get these

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nice visual timelines

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about different individuals as well.

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And we do have a great collection of primary sources

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here as well. So this resource is of course

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great for students if

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they're coming into your library, but also great for

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adult learners. If we're talking about a public library

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situation who are coming and trying to

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learn more about this topic, not

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only will they get that reference content, kind

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of that secondary material, but they can find really

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valuable primary source content

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in this platform. So they can start to understand

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the context of some of this different information.

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You know, they'll see letters between

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individuals, they'll see speeches and things

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like that. So it's really going to kind of put all

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of this together for them to help them understand

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this moment in us history.

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In addition to those content types, specifically,

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when we're talking about finding content related

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to slavery, we have quite a few different

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sections that are going to be really beneficial.

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The first is going to be our African American

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perspectives topic collection.

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That's kind of a long term there. But

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what we've done is we do have pre creative

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topic pages about some of the most studied

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and most searched topics.

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And we've pulled forward a collection that are specifically

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related to African American or

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to Black experiences throughout us

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history and we've pulled them together into one section

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to try to make it as easy as possible

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for your users to gain access to that content.

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So we have that listed on the home page.

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Oftentimes it's a good place to get them to start.

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But in addition to that, we have our premade

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topic pages that are going to be really beneficial

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as well. So if they're looking for

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just kind of overall information on

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slavery and they want to see everything we have or

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the curated content that we have that we've pulled for

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directly related to these topics, they'll

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be able be able to see all of that nice and organized

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here on these topic pages.

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In addition to topic pages on events

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and

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times and things like that eras, we

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also have topic pages related to individuals.

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So you'll see, I've pulled forward a Fred Frederick

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Doug Gli topic page here.

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So you can also pull forward those topic

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pages for important individuals

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related to whatever they're studying. So

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as we click through, you'll be able to see some of the

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different topic pages we have created

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related to slavery topics around

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slavery like abolition, the

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civil war slave rebellions.

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All that's all of that content

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you'll find prec created and pre organ for

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your users to make it again, really simple

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to click in and access the content. I mean, they

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can access this content without even running

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a search. So if you have individuals coming

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in who are maybe really basic researchers

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and are having trouble building their own search

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terms and kind of getting all of their ideas together,

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they could just point and click through this resource and find

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some really great information and that will kind of propel

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them forward and give them the

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the courage and the understanding to kind of

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start to research on their own and run through their different

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searches.

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And finally, in addition to all of that content,

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we also have some tools that are going to be really helpful.

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I've pointed out today, the sharing tools

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because I do think those are really beneficial if

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we're talking about recognizing Juneteenth

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and recognizing and understanding the history

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of slavery. A lot of times we're going to want to get

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this content out to others, especially

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if you're a librarian who's joining

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the session today because you're going to be pulling content

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for your users, for your students or patrons, whoever

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you're working with, we've got some great tools

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that can help you get that information out to them.

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So you can find exactly what you need

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and get it to them. The first is going to be

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our Google and Microsoft integration. So

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you can send over to your own

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Google or Microsoft accounts and just

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hold on to this content for later, you

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can also share it through your drives. So

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if you want to maybe share it with colleagues. If you

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have your professional drives

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that you share out to or maybe you have your users

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drives that you wanna share it to as well, you'll

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be able to get that information out.

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In addition to that, we do also have a get

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link. And this is really handy if you want to

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add this to your library's web

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page or maybe a social media post. If

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you're trying to get attention

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to this resource, this is a persistent

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URL that's not going to break for you.

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Um It's not going to take you to a, a blank

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page, you'll always have access to this

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content. So wherever you put it, you

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can be confident knowing that your users will always

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be able to access it. So again, a great way

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to pull and save content if you're

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doing that for your users, instead of having them

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actively research.

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Now, that's what I have to say about the

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tools and all that good stuff. I want to dive into

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the resource. Now, before I do, I haven't

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seen any questions in the Q and A. But I will

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just ask, do we have any questions

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before we really dive in?

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OK. I don't see any. So let's go ahead

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and keep going then. So I've just landed

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here on the home page of Gale in context

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us history. Hopefully, it's familiar

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to you if you've seen the resource previously or if you've

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seen other incont resources,

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but at the top of the page, of course, we have

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our basic search bar and this is where a lot of your users

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are going to go kind of first off

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just to find content. But if they're coming

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to you asking for tips on how to find

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materials, maybe they're struggling a little bit.

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I suggest directing them to scroll

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down on this page here.

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And as I mentioned, we have those prec created topic

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pages ready to go that are kind of

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highlighting some of the tap searched and tap

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studied topics, ideas, people,

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all the good stuff. And we've organized

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them here at the bottom of the page. So this is not

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all of the content we have in the resource.

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Of course. If you don't see a topic

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page created, you can still run a search and

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find content.

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But I would recommend taking a look to see if we

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do have a topic page that could be helpful

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for research. So today, we

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will click into that African American perspectives

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section where they're going to find a lot of really

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helpful information.

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And you'll see here, these are those pre creative

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topic pages we've made.

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So we can kind of scroll through here a little bit

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and you'll see again, we have information

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about abolition, maybe African Americans

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in World War One. If we want to kind of move forward

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in history a little bit, You'll see

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we also have individuals here.

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We have Harriet Tubman right here. So if we're

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looking for specific individuals or

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if we're looking for specific ideas,

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we have those topic pages for them.

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But let's click into abolition and the

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underground Railroad today since we are focused

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on finding content related to slavery.

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So now that I'm in my topic page here, you'll

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see. I will point out we have a breadcrumb trail

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up top here. So if this isn't

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quite what I'm looking for, I can easily

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go back to that previous page where I'll be

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able to see all of the different topic pages. I have,

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you'll see, we do keep our search bar up top here

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as well. So if again, we're not exactly

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what we're looking for, we can just run

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our search right from this page.

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But let's say this is what your users are looking

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for exactly at the very top of the

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page. There's always going to be a brief

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overview that's giving a background about whatever

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they're going to be learning about. So in this

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situation, abolition and the

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other underground railroad,

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as your users start to scroll down, they're going to see

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all of the content types that we've pulled out into

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separate buckets. We've already organized

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this for them to make it as easy as possible

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for them to find content. So you'll see reference

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works. We have great multimedia content.

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So if they're they prefer learning

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through video as opposed to reading, they'll

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find videos here. We also have audio files

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and images. So if that's how they prefer

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to get their content, they'll be able to do that on

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the platform here as well.

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We also include some great primary sources

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that we're going to take a look at today here in a bit,

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but we can scroll down and just start to

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see these different buckets here. So we've pulled

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forward some featured content, some reference materials.

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Again, we've got great biographies here,

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primary sources of their own content,

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type

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our videos and images listed here.

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And then if I scroll all the way down past

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all this good stuff We do

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have some different links here. Many of these

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link out to um

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third party websites. So they

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move out from Gale websites, but they are

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all deemed safe. We do check

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everything we add to our platform by some

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of these will go outside of Gale

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and then at the very bottom of the page here,

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we have these really great related topics

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and all of these are going to pull forward

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a topic page as well. So this

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is really handy if your your learners,

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your patrons have kind

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of looked at this topic page. You gotten all

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they can get from this and want to move forward,

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they can scroll down to this related topics and

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they may find something you know, helpful,

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maybe they're ready to move on to learn about the

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Emancipation Proclamation or maybe they

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want to learn more about slave rebellions.

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They'll be able to do that here on the bottom

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and you'll see, we do start to have more contemporary

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history listed here as well. So

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if they're ready to move forward to kind of maybe more

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current historical events

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they'll be able to do that on this platform

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as well. So once they learn about slavery

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and kind of get the background

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about the Black experience throughout the

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US, and they're, they're planning on moving

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forward with that to see how that evolves throughout

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history. They'll be able to do all

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of that here on the platform. They won't need to,

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to leave here to go somewhere else. It's kind of

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a one stop shop to really bring

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all of that content to them.

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Now, let's scroll up here. I'm going to click into one

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of these content buckets and today I'm going to

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click into primary sources

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just because I think they're so helpful

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to really get the context of what was going on

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and to get a feel of

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how people were feeling how people were interacting

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at that time. So let's click into primary

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sources here

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and scrolling down. You'll see it, it's telling us obviously

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what it is, but you'll see it also a lot of the times

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gives us the date. So we're gonna get a

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really nice understanding of when this was

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written here

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in addition to that, if I start to scroll down

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a little bit, you'll see a lot of these are labeled

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with what type of source it is. So

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this is a letter from Frederick Douglas

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to Harriet Tubman. You'll see. We also

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have speeches listed here, different

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essays,

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proclamation,

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a report, all that good stuff. So we

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do label those to be more specific for

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your users. I personally think our collection

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of personal letters are really beneficial

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in getting

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um

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a deeper understanding as opposed to just the

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the standard understanding what you learn in

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school. You're getting even deeper into that

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and getting a more informal

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understanding of what people were going through and

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what people were talking about.

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But whenever you click into any of these content

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buckets here, you're going to have filters on this

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right hand side that are going to be another

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really great way for them to narrow down

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their content. I really like to look based

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on subjects.

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So remember right now, we're in primary sources

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that are related broadly to abolition

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and the Underground Railroad, which of course is just

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a huge topic and a huge set

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of ideas. So we can click into the

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subject section here

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and this is going to break it down for me. So maybe

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I want to see the contents related

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to and by Frederick Douglass,

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I can do that by clicking here into his name

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and then anything again related to Frederick

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Douglass or um

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written by or spoken by. Fred

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Frederick Douglass will appear here for

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me and I can easily

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click into any of those and be pulled forward.

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So we definitely recommend pointing out these filters

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to your users. It can really help them narrow down

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to exactly what they're looking for. And

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you see the filter does appear up top here. So

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if they decide they want to get rid of this filter

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at any point, they don't need to find it here. Again,

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they can just click off it in this blue box

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and they're brought back to all 129

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primary sources related to this topic.

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So let's move forward. Now, I want

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to show you some of the different tools we have available

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on documents. So, um well,

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let's click into reference works just so we

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can get a feel of what a reference article

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looks like here and we'll just

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click into the first one. So this is going to

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be kind of an overview about abolition and

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the Underground Railroad here.

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And whenever I click into an article, the first

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few things I want to point out first,

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a lot of times you have these main ideas

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listed here. So these are just giving a brief

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overview of what they're going to be reading

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as well as the topic itself. Sometimes

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there will be things like questions here

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to kind of get individuals, brains, brains

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taken a little bit. They also

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may find historical facts or

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things like that. But this article, its main ideas.

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In addition to that on this right hand side, we

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have our explore panel. So we're

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again, if you have individuals who feel

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like they have a firm grasp on

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the underground railroad on abolition, they want

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to move forward to take a look at something different.

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They can do that right from this article here too.

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So you'll see we have a more like this which

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will still give us information related

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to the underground railroad or underneath.

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We have our related subjects here which is going

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to move them forward that way.

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So again, we're trying to make it as simple

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as possible for them to get to that content

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that they need.

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And once they're on this content here, I will point

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out just a few key bits of

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information that could be beneficial to them.

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First. If I have anyone from the K 12

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field or anyone who worked with

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students coming into the library, we

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have a citation tool on all of our resources

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here, you'll see it at the top.

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So if you do have researchers coming in who are going

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to need that content, that's a great way to get buy

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in. Of course, a lot of times researchers

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come in planning on using Google.

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this is a great way to get buy in though because Google

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is not gonna write your citations for you. But we are.

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So you'll see. We have M L A A P A, Chicago

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and Harvard here and we can use that citation

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at any point.

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And as I mentioned, while we were in my

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slide deck, we do have a few different options

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to get this information out of the platform.

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I have my get link button here with this little

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link icon. And again, this is a persistent

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URL

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and we can actually link out directly

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at topic pages as well. I didn't mention that earlier

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and I should have so if you

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want to link out to the to the full abolition

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and underground railroad topic

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page, you can use this get link button

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that'll be at the top of the page for you and

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you can actually share that out again, if you

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have a social media post going if you have a page

[00:16:38.000]
on your website that's dedicated to Juneteenth

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and you're pulling content into that,

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you can use the get link to get to that specific

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topic page as opposed to one

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single entry.

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We can also send this information over to

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our drives so we can do that in two different ways.

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We can hit, send to up top here with this

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little paper airplane

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that lets me choose Google drive one

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drive or email

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or I have those same buttons down here

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below as well. They do the same thing

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we've just included them in two different places to

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make sure everyone sees them, you know, if

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they miss this, hopefully they'll see these icons

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and vice versa.

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So they can do that. They can also download or they

[00:17:15.769]
can print this content and we'll print this page

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for them

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to better to reach all of your users.

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We have some text manipulation

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tools and some accessibility tools.

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The first is our translate option, which is

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found right here kind of under the title a bit.

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And I can translate my article into

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any of these languages. And I can also set

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my interface language. So that's going to change

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all of the different tools and buttons for

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me to whatever language I need. So if you have

[00:17:43.529]
individuals speaking Spanish coming

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in and prefer to read their information

[00:17:47.868]
in Spanish, they can translate that on our platform.

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We can also increase and decrease the font size.

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So if you have individuals who are visually impaired

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and who need that in increased size,

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they have that right there

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right next to that, we have some really nice display

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options. I absolutely love pointing these

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out because they're really helpful for me.

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just as I'm going through and reading,

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you'll see if we can change the color the background

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color. So individuals can kind of choose what

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feels best for their eyes, especially

[00:18:16.618]
if they're reading a longer article. Sometimes

[00:18:18.858]
just the black text on the white background

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can be a little bit much so they can

[00:18:23.309]
choose a different color for the background. They

[00:18:25.358]
can also choose a different font again, whichever

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works best for them. We do include

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a dyslexia font. So if you have dyslexic

[00:18:32.118]
individuals coming in who prefer to read with that

[00:18:34.209]
font, we have it available

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and then we can change the line letter and word

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spacing.

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So again, we're trying to make sure all of your

[00:18:42.348]
users can access this content and they can

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really

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customize how they're seeing this

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to make sure it's the best for them.

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And I'll go back to default settings here

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and finally, next to this display options

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button, I have a listen feature. I'm not going

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to play it all the way, but I do want to pop it

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out for you. So hitting that

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listen feature is going to pop open this toolbar

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and this is going to read through my entire article

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including this, we call it a sidebar even though

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it's in the middle of the page including

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this sidebar, it's going to read to me. And

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if I had translated this again

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to Spanish or to French or to Chinese,

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it will read to me in whatever language I chose.

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So if I translate this 1st, 1st

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hit play, it's just another added layer

[00:19:26.289]
of support and they'll be able to listen to

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whatever they have here,

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they can also download the audio file of this. So

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if they maybe don't have time to read it, but they are

[00:19:35.019]
really interested in this. They can download

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the MP3 and take it with them

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right next to that. We do have this little settings

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gear that I want to point out for you as well.

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And this just like those accessibility tools

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are going to kind of tailor how they're being

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read to. So they can choose

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if it highlights as it reads.

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So right now it defaults to highlighting

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the word in the sentence as it's

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reading through. So it's going to highlight each of those,

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but we can turn that off if we like,

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we can change the speed. We also have something

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called enhanced text visibility, which I'm going

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to turn on here and I'm going to hit

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play. You're not going to hear this because I've not

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shared my sound with you. There you go.

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But when I hit play here, you'll see this pops forward.

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So if you again have users who maybe are

[00:20:18.150]
struggling readers or maybe

[00:20:20.259]
who need that kind of bigger text right

[00:20:22.380]
in front of them, that enhanced text visibility

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is going to be really beneficial for them.

[00:20:27.088]
Again, found under my listen feature

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in this little settings gear here,

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they'll be able to pull that right forward

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and have it read through for them

[00:20:38.219]
one final tool before we're done for the

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day. If you do have individuals who

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are coming in planning on sharing information

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with peers or with colleagues or with

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family or friends.

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They may want to know how to use highlights and notes

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because if they're reading a longer article, I believe

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this one is fairly long.

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Yeah. So if they're reading a longer article,

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they may want to pull forward different bits of information,

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they think are going to be especially helpful

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for whoever they're sending it to. We have

[00:21:03.279]
a built-in highlights and notes feature here.

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So if I find this paragraph to be

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really important when I'm reading, I can

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click and drag over it,

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choose a highlight color,

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I can add a note if I want to

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and I can save it and I go through and highlight as much

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as I want or as little as I want.

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And then I can send this document over

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using any of those tools I mentioned before.

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So if I want to email it out to colleagues,

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I can do that if I want to save it on my

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drive, I can do that as well. And it does hold

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on to those highlights and notes for me

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and these notes are session based. So

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make sure if you do direct your your users

[00:21:41.568]
to use these highlights and notes, make sure they need

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to to sorry, make sure

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they know that they need to get this information

[00:21:48.170]
out of the platform before they sign off.

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So they can do that again by sending over

[00:21:52.430]
to their drives by emailing emailing,

[00:21:54.809]
downloading or printing. but

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once they sign off the platform, all of this information

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is gone just because we don't have individual

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accounts. So we can't recognize the same

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individual signing off and back

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on. And

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all of our highlights and notes are housed

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in one place as well and they're found

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under this highlights and notes button here.

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And I think this, I'm gonna hit view all

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highlights and notes

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is really beneficial if users

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are maybe doing a lot of research and they're just

[00:22:23.598]
pulling different interesting pieces of content.

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And they don't want to maybe save every single article

[00:22:28.848]
they're looking at. They just want to pull out some highlights

[00:22:30.939]
that they maybe want to take a look at later.

[00:22:33.939]
Whatever you highlight is going to appear here

[00:22:36.358]
on this page, you'll see, it shows me what

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my highlight color is. It shows me

[00:22:40.519]
the text I highlighted and then it also

[00:22:42.650]
shows me any notes that I took.

[00:22:45.420]
So they can actually go through just

[00:22:47.449]
find the pieces of content they think are most

[00:22:49.699]
important. They think they want to hold on to,

[00:22:51.969]
they can highlight it, pull forward this highlights

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and notes little section here

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and then they can choose to just send this bit

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of content out. You'll see, I still have my send

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to button up top here

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so I can send just these highlights and notes

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over to my Google Drive my one drive or my

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email to hold for later.

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This is also beneficial for you as a librarian.

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Again, if you're maybe pulling individual

[00:23:13.630]
facts as opposed to pulling full

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pieces of content, full articles

[00:23:17.969]
for your users, you can just find the

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different bits of text that you think are most important

[00:23:22.670]
and send those out and they will go over nice

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and organized like this

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with a bibliography at the very bottom. So

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you'll see, I've only highlighted in one article.

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So I only see one entry here. But if I started

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to highlight into more and more, they

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would all appear down here underneath that.

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And we do have a hyperlink here as well. So if

[00:23:42.318]
you do share this and your

[00:23:44.358]
users find it really interesting and they want to read

[00:23:46.400]
that full article,

[00:23:47.900]
they can do that right here, click

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into it and they'll be taken back to that article

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right on this page here.

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And again, I haven't seen any questions come

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through, but I do want to make sure I get

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everything answered. And while I'm waiting

[00:24:05.180]
for that, I will point out

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I didn't mention it. I very briefly

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went over it, but I do want to mention

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that all of our multimedia content are

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pulled forward in different buckets on our topic page

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here as well. So if you're looking for

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maybe an attention grabber, you may want to take a look

[00:24:20.680]
at some of these, you'll find videos,

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images and audio, all that great stuff

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on this platform here as well.

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And one final thing to mention,

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so we've taken a look at all

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of the different really focused

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on historical contents, all of the primary

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sources, all of the reference articles

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that are giving a background on whatever topic

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you're taking a look at. We also have

[00:24:43.108]
news and magazine articles here. So

[00:24:45.144]
that's kind of bringing this forward.

[00:24:47.314]
So we've learned about the history, but

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now we can see how that history is

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interwoven into our current

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or into more contemporary history.

[00:24:56.305]
We can see how we're talking about it now

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or how it's impacted

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the lives of individuals, how it's shaped society.

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So we, we're moving forward from just

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getting that kind of textbook historical

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view of things. And we're getting more of a context

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by looking at magazines and news

[00:25:13.259]
and kind of seeing how all of that

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that we just learned is still impacting what's

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going on today.

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And while you're in this new section, I will point out

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if we're specifically talking about Juneteenth,

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I didn't take a look at too much Juneteenth information

[00:25:26.630]
today. Since we're talk talking about

[00:25:29.029]
focusing on slavery,

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you'll find a lot of news information about

[00:25:33.769]
Juneteenth here as well. So if you

[00:25:35.789]
are looking specifically for Juneteenth,

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I suggest looking at your news and your magazine

[00:25:40.670]
sections in addition to your reference works, you'll

[00:25:42.750]
find some pretty great content there. If

[00:25:44.828]
you're moving forward for from researching

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slavery to learning about

[00:25:48.890]
Juneteenth.

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And it looks like we have a quick question about highlights

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and notes. So when creating highlights and notes,

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do I have to create all highlights and notes in one

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session or can I save it continue later?

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So Danielle, you will need to highlight

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everything you want to highlight in one session.

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Um You can always come back later

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and do it again, but since we don't have saved,

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I'm sorry, since we don't have named user accounts,

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once you sign up your session,

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everything is gone because we won't recognize

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you when you come back in. So I do

[00:26:19.930]
recommend highlighting, you

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know, whichever articles you're interested in taking

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them out of the platform.

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And then if you want to take a look again, you

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can go back in and you can take a look at some other

[00:26:30.989]
articles. But once you sign

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off the session, yes, everything is gone,

[00:26:35.348]
you won't be able to see it anymore. So

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make sure you get it out either by sending

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out the full document or by clicking

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into the highlights and notes section

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and just sending the highlighted bits

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that you have saved.

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OK? So we've got about three minutes and I don't

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see any other questions pop up here.

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So let me give you some contact information.

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So if you're a current subscriber to

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gale in context us history and you want to

[00:27:05.118]
talk a little bit more about the resource

[00:27:07.479]
about maybe best practices, things

[00:27:09.489]
like that, you can reach out to your customer success

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manager. If you don't know who that is yet,

[00:27:13.900]
send an email to [email protected]

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and you'll be forwarded to

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the correct individual.

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If you don't currently have Gale In Context: U.S. History

[00:27:22.059]
and you want to talk about it, you can

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reach out to your sales consultant. If you don't

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know who they are, just go to support.gale.com/repfinder

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you'll enter your information and we'll forward you to the correct

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individual.

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If you need more support and more tools,

[00:27:36.939]
you can access our support site where

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we do have pre-recorded webinars. So this

[00:27:41.299]
one will be listed there as well as a pretty

[00:27:43.390]
extensive library of other topics.

[00:27:45.818]
We also have

[00:27:47.380]
training materials to train your library staff.

[00:27:49.739]
We have shorter tutorials, we have activities.

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Um The list goes on tips sheets.

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So anything you need, if you're planning on getting

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this information out, I would take a look at the support

[00:27:59.299]
site which is support.gale.com

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and you shouldn't be able to pull a lot of that content without

[00:28:03.858]
having to make it yourself. So kind of save

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you time on making your own materials.

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And I do have a survey here.

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If you have the time I have it pulled here as

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a QR code, it's also going to appear

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in your browser once you sign off our session

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from the day. So if you have time, please take

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that for me. It lets us make sure

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that we're hitting all of the content that you're looking

[00:28:23.910]
for in these sessions.

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And again, I haven't seen any more questions

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come through, so I'll go ahead and end the session

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here and I do appreciate you for being

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on the line. Hopefully we'll see you in

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future sessions coming up. Have a great day.