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Last Updated: June 14, 2024

Gale 101- Support.gale.com

Gale’s Support Site, Support.gale.com, provides you with access to pre-made training, marketing, and technical support materials designed to aid you in learning, promoting your resources, and stretching your Gale skills. In this session we will explore the layout and workflows found within the Support Site, as well as the content available to you.
Duration: 30 Minutes
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Ok, again, welcome in everyone.

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Today, we have another Gale 101 session.

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This one is going to be looking at our support

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site, which is support.gale.com.

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My name is Amber Winters and I am a senior training

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consultant here with Gale.

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So today we're first going to kind of overview

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the support site, what you can expect

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what we built it for. Then we're going to take

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a look at some of the different features and content

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that are going to be available for you. We'll

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spend a good amount of time actually in the platform

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walking you through it. So you can see the best ways to

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find different pieces of content to

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make sure you can easily access whatever support

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you need. And then at the end of the session,

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we'll have some wrap up contact information.

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We should have a little bit of time left over for questions,

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but don't feel like you need to wait until the end of the session

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for your questions. You can put those into the Q and

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A at any time and I'll be able to answer

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them. So

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let's go ahead and get rolling. So support.gale.com

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or the support site. I will probably use both

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of those terms throughout the session. They're the same thing.

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It's really our one stop shop for everything

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gale support.

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So anything you need to kind of help you

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best utilize and leverage your resources

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in your learning community, we've included

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here on the support site. So that includes product

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support. If you're looking for your direct

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URL S, maybe you need to add an icon onto

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your websites. If you need your mark

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records, if you want to look at title lists, those

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are all going to be on the support sites. So

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kind of the initial setup content

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you'll find under our product support.

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This is also where we have our training center.

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So all of our free on demand materials

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including things like the webinar that you're on today

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tutorials for K 12

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schools, you'll find lesson plans and activities. We have

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tip sheets, resource guides. Any

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sort of training is going to be found in the

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training center on the support site.

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We also have a full marketing materials

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section. So if you need to get this information

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out to your learning community, you'll find

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that information within the marketing materials

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area. So things like flyers

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bookmarks. If you prefer to market

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electronically, you'll find things like social media

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posts and blog and email templates

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all under the marketing materials section.

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And this is also where we house our technical

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support. So we have contact

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inform, contact information if you need to reach

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out to technical support. But we also

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have a huge kind of set of documents

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and Q and A answers

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that you're going to find for some of the more popular

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technical support, things like authentication.

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You know, if you want to change your password or set up IP authentication.

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If you're working to get your resource into

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your learning management system, we've got some great

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information there as well.

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Again, all of that found directly on our support

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site. So I always recommend if you're

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using Gale have the support site bookmarked.

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Again, it's support.gale.com because

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really whatever you're going to need, you're

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most likely going to find it on the support site.

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So let's talk about a couple of the key features.

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The first one I want to mention that sometimes actually

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skipped over when some people use the resource,

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but I like to mention it is our location

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ID sign in.

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So your location ID is a unique identifier

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that we use for you, for your learning community.

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So if it's for your school, for your library,

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for your academic institution, whatever it is,

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you all have a location ID

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that we use to identify you.

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If you don't know what your location ID is,

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you can actually find it on the support site homepage

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with this little blue find your location

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button and we'll be able to give you that

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information. But

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when you choose to sign in with your location

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ID on the support site, we really tailor

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your experience because each of your location

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I DS is tagged with what

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type of institution you are. So if you're a K 12

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school, if you're a public library, if you're

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an academic institution,

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we know that when you put in your location

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ID, and we tailor what content you

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see. So you're only seeing things that are relevant

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to you. You know, if you're in a public library,

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you may not be interested in seeing some of the

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materials made for academic

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institutions because they may not be applicable

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for your current situation.

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And we also limit your experience to only

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the resources that you have. So

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you can actually navigate the entire support

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site top to bottom without

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signing and using your location ID.

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But when you do that, you actually see every material

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we have for every gale resource available.

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So it's

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um it can be overwhelming to have all of those

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resources kind of sitting there staring

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at you, especially if you only subscribe to,

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you know, two or three of our resources. Sometimes

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it's easier to have that narrowed down. So you're only

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seeing that content. So I always

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recommend if you're using the support site,

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enter your location ID again, if

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you don't know what it is, you just hit that blue,

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find your location button right there on the home page

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and you'll be able to enter it in and you'll be ready to go.

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Another great feature I want to mention is right

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at the top of the page in the banner here. So what we've

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done is we've pulled out the the different

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support types all into their own

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tabs. So this kind

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of toolbar here at the top of the page

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will take you to every section of the support

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site. You won't have to go digging into weird places.

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Um The like I mentioned on a couple

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of screens back, our product support,

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training center, marketing materials, tech

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support. We also have a tool section

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that will link you to some gale tools.

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We'll take a look at it a little bit later and to connect

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with us are all found right here on this home page.

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So it's a nice kind of landing point.

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You'll be able to get to anything you need to right here

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from this home page right here from this drop down up top

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here. Another

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key feature that's a little bit newer that I like

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to point out. This is specific for K

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12 educators, professionals

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who are on the line is our browse by K

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12 subjects section which is found under

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our training center. This is especially

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handy if I have any librarians on the line who

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are directing teachers to the support

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site, maybe to look for premade lesson

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plans or activities,

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they can actually browse by K 12 subjects

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here and they can take a look at

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the different subjects we have available. You'll see, it shows

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how many results we have.

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So it's really kind of tailoring to what they're looking

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at. So they'll be able to just see, maybe they just want

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to see all of the social studies supplemental

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materials we have created, they can do that by

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using this browse by K 12 subjects.

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Another feature found under our training center

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that I want to point out because sometimes it is skipped

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and I think it's a really beneficial

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section is our content specific

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training materials. So what we do

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for quite a few different observances and holidays

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and things like that celebrations is

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we make featured themes and featured content

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for those. So you'll see, I've pulled up

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on this left hand side here. What

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that looks like when you click into the section, you'll see we

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have information for

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inventors month, mental health awareness.

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Um If you look down further here, you can

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look by month here national reading

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Month, Arab American Heritage Month.

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so we make these different collections

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for some of the different observances.

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You see when we click into those, you'll see all the different

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bits of content we make here. So this is really great

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if you have something going on in your library.

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You know, we did something on book banning. So

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if you're running some sort of programming around book banning,

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you want to see what we have available. You'll

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find that under our content specific materials

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and a lot of times we'll have a kind of curated

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list for you. You'll see it shows what resources

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we're using

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and you can click in and use any of those materials

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that we have created.

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Again, this is another feature found under the

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training center that we'll take a look at in a little

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bit. So

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one final key feature that I like to point

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out is our tools section which again

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is on our kind of tool bar up top here,

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just listed as tools.

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And this is giving you direct links to some

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of the supplemental resources that

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we offer you to help you kind of

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engage with your resources and

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get your resources out to your patrons. So

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you'll have access to the access my library

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app also to gail pages.

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So if you're a Gill page user, I know a lot of times

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that's in the K 12 field are, are

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Gale Pages users, you

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can access Gale Pages from the support site.

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You also have a link to your usage dashboard

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here, which is a really important link to

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have. And it's a really simple way to click over

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to check your usage to see how your

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learning community is doing with your resources.

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And we also linked to gale admin from here as well.

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So what I prefer to do

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instead of bookmarking each of these pages

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individually. You know, you're using Gale Edmund

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to adjust your accessibility or your

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authentication features. You're also using

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usage dashboard to check your usage and then you're

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also using Gale Pages. instead

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of having all of those, you know, bookmarked separately,

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you can bookmark this tools page and

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now you boom, have access to all of these tools

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and you only have one bookmark to

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look at and to remember

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and moving forward from our features. I do just

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briefly want to go over the content that you'll find

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in this resource and we'll dig deeper into the content

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once we are actually clicking through. But

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under training materials, we've actually organized

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our content types into four

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different sections.

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The first being getting started. So

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if you are new to a resource or maybe

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you have a teacher or a staff member

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who's new to the resource and you need to just kind of

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get started engaging with it.

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Our get started section is going to have

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resource guides as well as introductory webinars,

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which are generally going to be the gale 101

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webinars to kind of get you started.

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Moving on from there, we have a train your staff

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section. This is going to help you get

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the word out to your staff. So we have fully

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developed training tool kits that

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you see pictured here that's going to

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include different links to documents and materials

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that could help you as you're presenting this information

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to your staff,

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we also have fully made training slide

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decks, so you don't need to make your own. If

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you're planning on introducing

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Gale Business: Plan Builder to your

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staff, we already have a slide deck

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ready to go for you. You can download it, make

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the edits you need, so it better fits your audience

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and present. We want to make sure you don't have to kind of

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re invent the wheel every time you need to make

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a slide deck. So we have those on the support side

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as well. And you also find quite a few different

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best practice documents that are going to really make

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sure that your staff understands

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all of the kind of features and hidden

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gems and things like that within our resources.

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Moving forward from train your staff.

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We also have a continued

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learning section and this is really

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the biggest section in the training materials

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kind of content bucket. This is where

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you're going to start learning more advanced bits of

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information. So you're going to find recorded

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webinars about more specific topics like

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the science of reading or maybe

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using your in context resources

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for claim, evidence, reasoning, arguments,

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and writing.

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And you'll also find tip sheets, maybe about finding

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specific content types, maybe about how

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you best use the advanced search feature.

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So more in depth and more specific

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bits of content, we also have all of

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our shorter tutorials loaded up here as well.

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And those tutorials are usually about one

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minute, two minutes. So they're nice little bite

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size bits of information that are good to take a look

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at. And

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finally we have a fine lessons and activities

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section. So this, um, a lot of

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times is kind of tailored to the K 12 Arena.

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We also have some great stuff that are helpful for

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public libraries who have different programming going.

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But under this section, you'll find fully

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made lesson plans, scavenger hunts. We

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have things like trading cards, graphic organizers,

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escape rooms, as well as some different

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activity templates.

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So if you're looking for a way to get gail

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into the classroom, as opposed to just

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kind of hanging out in your library, you know, you want to get teachers

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and students more engaged.

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I recommend taking a look at this fine lessons

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and activities section because most likely you're going to

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find something that, you know, you can hand out to

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your teachers. It's done, it's ready to go.

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They don't have to pay for it, they don't have to search for

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it. It's right there in front of them.

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So that's under the fine lessons and activities section

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and we'll take a look at that quickly

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under our marketing materials section, we

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have, I like to break it up into two different categories.

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So we have some premade electronic materials

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available. So

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you'll have those that you can pop into your social

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media we also have web banners if you want to

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promote on your actual website.

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And we also have print materials. So if

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you want a fire or a postcard or a bookmark,

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you'll find those on those reports. It as well. You can easily

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just download and print them out so you

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can save them to your computer. So you don't have to go back

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looking for them again. They're just ready to

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go right on your computer for you.

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Now, I want to actually click through the resource so

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we can all kind of see where to find this

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stuff to make sure everyone's ready to go. Um

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I haven't seen any questions pop up, but

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while I'm switching over, does anyone have any

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questions here?

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Ok. I don't see any. So

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let's go ahead and get started. So this is the support

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site again at support.gale.com.

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And as I mentioned is the best practice. I always

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recommend signing it. So that is going to appear

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right here

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in the middle of the page again. If you don't

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know your location ID, you'll hit find your location

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and enter your information.

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I am actually going to use my personal location

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ID today, which was just a winters

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and I'll just give it a quick second to load here. But once

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I sign into this, there we go.

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Now this is going to be tailored to me. So once

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I start to click through, I'm only going to see materials

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related to the resources that I have

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kind of loaded onto my account, you could say.

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So the resources that I currently subscribe to

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and once you sign in with your LOCA location

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ID will also mention on this right hand

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side here, you're actually going to see

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your contact information for your customer

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success manager and it looks like we have a quick

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question here. Um I'm a small public

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volunteer based library. Is there only one login

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per site or can I have my own login? Um

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So Susan, there's only one location ID

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per account or per site. So,

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um so your library will have

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one location ID again, if you don't know what

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it is, you can use that find your location um

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option. But every location has

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just the one location ID as an identifier.

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Ok. And again, everyone, please let me know if

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my speaker starts to go out again

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and I will try to fix it again. But

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hopefully we don't have any more issues moving

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forward here. Ok. So again, I'm

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signed in now to the support site. You'll see

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this shows my name for you guys. It'll show

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your library name or your school name,

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whatever is attached to your account.

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Mine just looks a little bit different because I'm an

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internal user and not kind

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of a customer user.

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But let's take a look at how we can find all of this great

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content. So again, the first tab available

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at the top of the page here is going

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to be our product support. You'll see when I drop

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down, it shows you all of the different product materials

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that you may need access to.

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So if you want to browse the ebooks, you currently have

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access to or if you want to take a look at

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icons or direct URL S,

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you can do all of that here. This is also where V

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pats are located

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or I can choose to browse my products so

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I can do that here. And this is what I have access

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to yours will look different. Of course, depending on your

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collection.

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It could be a long list like this. It could be two or

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three. But if you're signing with your location, you're

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only seeing what you have access to. Let's click

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into one though.

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Um We'll click into gal and context elementary

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today. So when I click

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into a product now you'll see it's giving me my

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direct link and I will say if you're not

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signed in with your location ID, we can't give

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you the direct URL

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who you are.

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But if you're signed up with your location, IED, you'll

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have your direct URL. We have a quick

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description, maybe if you want to put that on a website

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or send it out in a social media post,

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we also have your database icon listed here

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as well. We have a few different options here. If you need

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a thumbnail version, we have that

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we have different icons for apps

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and we also have hires icon and a web

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icon here.

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And then on the right side of this page here, you

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could also click directly into either the training

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or the marketing materials related to this resource.

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So if you go into these materials

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through this way, you're only going to see content

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related to gale and context elementary,

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even if you have access to other resources,

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since you're coming in through this way, it's automatically

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limiting what you see to this one resource.

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Now, moving on from our product support section,

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we also have here our training center

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in the training centers. We're going to find really

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anything you need to learn how to

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use the resources, to teach other people how to use their

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resources and to engage with your

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resources. So again, you'll see we break

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it down different ways for you to browse

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to make it as simple as possible. So

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the first option is to browse by type.

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This is going to be helpful if you are on the

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support site, you know, you want a

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lesson plan, that's what you want.

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You don't care what resource the lesson plan is from.

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You just want to see the lesson plans we have available,

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we click the browse by type.

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Boom. I can just look at all of my lesson plants

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and I will mention here while we're in the training center.

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If you decided not to sign in with your location

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ID, this little drop down

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here and this blue bar is going to say,

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view all materials.

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If you did sign in with your location ID, this is already

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going to be filled with the appropriate option

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here. So if you're a school, a public library or if you're

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in higher education,

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so you can choose this manually. So I'm

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just going to put in school here. So

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if you don't sign in with your location ID,

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but you do only want to see school content, you

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can change, change that in the training center.

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But again, I always recommend just using your

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location ID,

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but now I have it set the school materials. So

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as I click through, I'm only going to see school

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material content. Anyone calling

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in from an academic institution or

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a public library, you're going to see different content

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because yours is going to be filtered differently.

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But now I can click into any of these. So I know I mentioned

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lesson plans before

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I can click in. And now I can see all of the lesson

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plans. I have related to

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the resources that I currently have access to

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and I can easily click into any of these. Now,

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this one is a DB Q project about the

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American revolution using gal in context

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high school and I can

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download this content right here using my download

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button or I can print it out.

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Now, going back to my training center drop down,

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I can also browse by product. So

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this is helpful if you want to take a look at

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everything we have related to

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um

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Children library. If you're a public library

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and you're looking for material, training,

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materials for Children library, you can choose to browse

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by product and do it that way.

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But let's click into another in context resource

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just because they're pretty popular. A lot

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of people have those. So let's click.

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Let's say I want to see everything we have available for

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Gale In Context: High School. I'm gonna start

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a training program around Gale In Context:

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high school and I just need all this stuff and I

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don't want to see anything else when I click into

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Gale In Context: High School. Now you're going to see those

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different kind of organizational levels that I mentioned

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before. So we're getting started is always

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going to be at the top with our recorded one

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on one webinar and our resource guide

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underneath our train your staff materials.

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So excuse me, we have

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some professional development materials

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training tool kits as well as a couple tip sheets.

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Scrolling down our continue learning

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section. Again, this is generally going to be

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the largest section on all of our pages because

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it's including all of the more advanced

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information. You'll see. We have things like finding

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level documents or finding statistics.

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So getting a little bit more in depth in those

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recorded webinars

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finding primary sources, things like that.

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And then right down here at the bottom

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is going to be the fine lessons and activities

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section. So anyone joining me

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from that K 12 Arena, this is a nice

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place to look, you're going to find activities

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and lesson plans here.

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And the difference is I will say between activities

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and lesson plans, lesson plans have a fully built

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out lesson plan template created.

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So it's really something you could copy and paste

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and even send over to admin as a fully

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completed lesson plan.

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while activities are just going to have maybe a

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quick set of directions and then the activity.

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So the difference is lesson plans are a little

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bit more structured and a little bit more

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developed

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and back up to the training center here. Again, I mentioned

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you can browse by K 12 subjects earlier.

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So if you want just wanna take a look at maybe a social studies

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content,

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you can do that here.

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We can also browse by tool which is just

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kind of looking at some of the supplemental tools like

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Gale pages that we have available.

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We've pulled our video tutorials out separately.

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Those are our really short videos that are

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generally like 1 to 2 minutes.

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We also have our upcoming webinars pulled out

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separately and this is where you can register

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for upcoming webinars as well. So this is updated

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continuously with any new webinars that are scheduled,

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you'll be able to register here. We have

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all of our recorded webinars pulled forward in

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a separate section as well. That is searchable.

[00:20:24.739]
You'll see you can narrow it down by product.

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And you can also choose if you want to look at something new

[00:20:29.068]
or updated. And what I love is we have this

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duration option here as well. So if

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you just want like a quick bite of information, you

[00:20:35.539]
can narrow it down to a 15 minute webinar.

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Um If you know, you want something more in depth,

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you can, you know, choose to look at things

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that are 60 minutes long that are really going to dive into

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a topic.

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Finally, on our training center again, we have

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our content specific materials listed here

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and we'll be able to click into any of these themes

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and kind of take a look at what's going on here,

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see what we've done in the past

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and click into that content.

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Now, moving forward from our training center,

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we also have our marketing materials

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here in this toolbar.

[00:21:14.930]
You'll see when I hover over marketing materials, I can

[00:21:16.979]
choose to browse by type, browse by

[00:21:19.088]
product or I can click into the product

[00:21:21.358]
update section which is going to take us to

[00:21:23.689]
the product updates blog. So if you want

[00:21:25.719]
to see what's new and improved in gale,

[00:21:27.858]
you can do that under the marketing materials section

[00:21:31.439]
and you'll see when I click into browse by type,

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it looks very similar to the training center.

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You'll see, I can just choose whatever type I'm interested in.

[00:21:38.358]
If I just wanna see flyers, I click

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in here

[00:21:41.838]
and see the flyers related to my resources

[00:21:45.750]
and the browser product looks the same as well. I'll just

[00:21:47.779]
choose whatever product I want to take a look

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at moving

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forward from marketing materials is our technical support

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section.

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And here we've chosen to break out the

[00:21:58.059]
technical documents and the Fa Qs.

[00:22:00.969]
So our technical documents have this nice little tile

[00:22:03.410]
formatting, which I think is really handy

[00:22:06.068]
and it shows you the different types of documents, documents

[00:22:08.279]
we have available. So our accessibility

[00:22:10.568]
here, you'll see. We have two documents. This has

[00:22:12.750]
our full Gale VP directory. If you need

[00:22:14.838]
that, we also have information

[00:22:17.039]
on authentication. L MS if you need

[00:22:19.118]
some help with MARC records, Gale

[00:22:21.459]
admin, if you want to look at some information about usage,

[00:22:24.229]
all of that is found under the technical document

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section here,

[00:22:28.630]
our FA Q looks just like

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you would expect as a question and answer

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here.

[00:22:33.828]
You'll see. We have tabs for general access

[00:22:36.430]
Neals and then gale admin in account

[00:22:38.670]
settings. So if you need to edit your account, you'll find

[00:22:40.858]
that under our technical support

[00:22:43.930]
and we also give information about database

[00:22:45.959]
status. So if something happens, you know, we're working

[00:22:48.269]
on fixing something, we'll let you know on the support site,

[00:22:50.640]
this is updated real time. So

[00:22:52.818]
if anything ever happens, we always let you know

[00:22:54.848]
here on the support site under technical support.

[00:22:58.890]
Next to the technical support option, we have

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this nice tools drop down.

[00:23:03.098]
And again, the tools are kind of those supplemental

[00:23:05.789]
resources that you have access to for free

[00:23:07.959]
that are going to help you utilize your resources.

[00:23:10.170]
So let's jump to the tools home here.

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You see, I can click into any of these. So if I want

[00:23:17.239]
to take a look at usage dashboard, I'll just

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click into my usage dashboard tile. I

[00:23:21.500]
can sign in here and it's going to bump me over

[00:23:23.549]
in a new tab to the usage dashboard platform.

[00:23:27.900]
And I can click here to view the usage

[00:23:30.209]
dashboard training materials.

[00:23:32.588]
You'll see, we've got quite a few tip sheets, a

[00:23:34.750]
couple recorded webinars about

[00:23:37.049]
using the usage dashboard.

[00:23:40.250]
And finally, the last section is going to be

[00:23:42.269]
the connect with us section. So

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whoever you need to access, whoever you need

[00:23:46.500]
to talk to, we have your information, their

[00:23:48.519]
information here.

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Academic outreach is for anyone

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working um in a higher ed institution

[00:23:54.939]
or an academic institution, everyone

[00:23:57.180]
has access to a customer success manager

[00:23:59.479]
as well. So K 12 and public libraries

[00:24:02.059]
if you don't know who your customer success manager

[00:24:04.130]
is, you can find that information here.

[00:24:06.358]
We also have find your rep. So if you need to contact

[00:24:08.750]
your sales representative for whatever reason

[00:24:10.989]
you don't know who that is, you can reach out right here

[00:24:13.150]
on this, find your rep section.

[00:24:15.059]
We have customer support here. So if you have

[00:24:17.150]
questions about you know, billing invoicing,

[00:24:19.650]
anything like that,

[00:24:20.818]
you can reach out to customer support directly from

[00:24:22.900]
our support site as well. And then the very

[00:24:25.029]
bottom, we have technical support. So if

[00:24:27.049]
you have a tech question, their information is

[00:24:29.189]
there for you as well.

[00:24:35.250]
Now, that's a brief overview of the support sites.

[00:24:37.598]
There's a lot of content found within

[00:24:39.799]
the site. So I definitely recommend if you can

[00:24:41.838]
maybe steal away 30 minutes of your time.

[00:24:44.358]
and just kind of dig in,

[00:24:45.930]
you know, and browse through different pathways, see

[00:24:48.039]
what sort of information that you can kind of pull

[00:24:50.309]
forward and share it with

[00:24:52.390]
your colleagues, you know, share it with your teachers

[00:24:54.420]
if you're in a school, share it with your staff members. If

[00:24:56.500]
you know you have different staff members,

[00:24:58.789]
you know, promoting your resources to different

[00:25:00.959]
audiences, let them know about the support

[00:25:03.170]
site because they most likely find

[00:25:05.150]
a lot of content that'll save them some

[00:25:07.259]
time when they're doing this stuff. They can just easily

[00:25:09.598]
find it, print it, download it, send

[00:25:11.939]
it electronically and they're good to go.

[00:25:15.160]
Now again, I haven't seen any questions come in, but

[00:25:17.309]
I do want to ask if we have any before.

[00:25:19.559]
I give some wrap up information.

[00:25:21.519]
If you have any questions for me about this session

[00:25:23.868]
or about the recording, you can

[00:25:25.880]
reach out. It's [email protected]

[00:25:27.910]


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If you want to talk to your customer success manager

[00:25:31.769]
about best practices with the support site,

[00:25:33.959]
or maybe you want to dig in deeper to one of the support

[00:25:36.108]
site sections.

[00:25:37.739]
You can either reach out to them directly or you can send

[00:25:39.848]
an email to [email protected]

[00:25:41.979]


[00:25:43.500]
Again, your sales consultant. If you don't know who

[00:25:45.630]
that is. Support.gale.com/repfinder

[00:25:48.809]
is how you'll find their contact information.

[00:25:51.868]
And then technical support. I do always like to include

[00:25:54.019]
it on here just in case you have any tech related questions.

[00:25:56.479]
Their email is [email protected]

[00:25:58.529]
They'll be able to

[00:26:00.578]
answer any sort of tech question that you have.

[00:26:04.328]
And I also have a survey here that I would love for you

[00:26:06.400]
to take if you have time for it,

[00:26:08.479]
the QR is here for you to scan or you can just go to

[00:26:10.529]
bit.ly/galetrainingeval

[00:26:11.509]
and

[00:26:13.670]
you'll be pulled forward to that survey

[00:26:15.838]
as well. Again, I don't see any questions,

[00:26:18.449]
so I'll go ahead and end the session today. If you

[00:26:20.509]
think of questions after we're done for the day,

[00:26:22.759]
feel free to send me an email otherwise,

[00:26:25.049]
hopefully we will see you on future sessions.

[00:26:27.529]
Bye everyone.
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