Recorded Webinars
For NOVELNY: Supporting Hospital Libraries with NOVELNY
Duration: 45 Minutes
Your NOVELNY provided Gale OneFile collections offers a variety of databases that support health care professionals with more than 2,500 embargo-free, full-text periodicals. Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine anchors this collection, but you’ll also find specialized databases for physical therapy, sports medicine, and nursing and allied health as well. In this session, we explored these resources and shared best practices for getting content to those who need it. Academic librarians at schools that offer health related degrees may be interested in this session as well.
Audience: Hospital libraries; Academic libraries
Recorded on 6/15/21
For NOVELNY: NOVELNY Support For Virtual Reference and Programming
Public libraries have found creative ways to reach patrons virtually during the pandemic and, even with restrictions easing, virtual help is still thriving; your NOVELNY resources can help! Persistent URL tools can provide easy ways to link your patrons to reference questions and reach patrons who can’t attend virtual programming. In this session, we explored these tools and more to assist you in expanding your virtual reach. Audience: Public libraries
Recorded on 6/07/21
For NOVELNY: Supporting End Of School Year Work With NOVELNY
The end of the school year can approach rapidly, and we want to make sure your library is ready for a flurry of time-sensitive student research. Your NOVELNY resources offer a wealth of content and tools to help support student work. In this session, we provided quick tips for helping students find what they need and putting what they need, where they need it.
Recorded on 5/20/21
For NOVELNY: Raise Awareness of Your NOVELNY Resources
Did you know there’s a wealth of free, customizable marketing materials on NOVELNY’s new support site from Gale? Along with finding your library’s geo-authenticating URL for the databases, you can also find ready-to-go social media posts, newsletter blurbs, quick tutorials and much more. In this session, we explored ways you can take advantage these materials to raise awareness and use of your NOVELNY resources.
Recorded on 5/19/21
Engage Business Students with Gale Business Resources
Duration: 45 Minutes
Gale is here to support business students at all levels with simple access to data, statistics, demographics and reports about businesses and people. In this session, targeted to public and academic librarians and faculty, we will review the applications of Business Insights: Essentials and Gale Business: DemographicsNow to support business students in their research and projects.
Recorded on 4/14/21
15 Minutes To Mastery: Discover Top Search Terms In Your Library
Duration: 15 Minutes
Did you know Gale’s Usage Dashboard offers a Top Search Terms report that provides a summary of what your users are searching for in your Gale resources? This report can reveal needs in the library, show how students are using resources for classroom work, and much more. In this 15-minute session, we walked you through running this report, reading the results, and making use of the provided visual tools.
Recorded on 4/06/21
15 Minutes to Mastery: Create News Alerts in Gale OneFile Periodical Resources
Duration: 15 Minutes
Get the latest news and articles from your favorite publications sent directly to your email or RSS feed. In this recorded 15 minute session, we’ll demonstrate how to setup journal and search alerts within Gale OneFile periodical resources to support your ongoing professional development and personal interests.
Recorded on 4/01/21
Curate Content Sets for Research Projects with Gale Resources
Duration: 30 Minutes
Learn how to curate digital content from your Gale resources to create text sets and support research projects. Utilizing a variety of workflow tools, in this session, we’ll explore best practices to share ready-to-go content with students and teachers.
Recorded on 3/24/21
15 Minutes to Mastery: Surface Statistics Within Gale In Context
Duration: 15 Minutes
Statistics are often a key portion of research projects in both the secondary and undergraduate levels. Gale In Context resources contain a wealth of statistical graphs and charts to support all student levels. In this 15 minute session we will review how to best surface and share these statistics.
Recorded on 3/18/21
Prepare Persuasive Papers with Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints
Duration: 30 Minutes
A successful persuasive paper convinces the reader of an argument with reliable evidence, expert opinions, and strong counter arguments to objections. In this webinar, we shared how Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints can help students choose a topic, gather supporting evidence, and organize their research to develop the perfect persuasive paper.
Recorded on 2/18/21
Celebrate Black History Month with Gale In Context Resources
Duration: 45 Minutes
In February, we honor the central role African Americans have played in history. It is a time for reflection and honor; many libraries use this time to educate and inspire students and their communities. Your Gale In Context resources can help - libraries can easily share historical and inspiring documents, biographies, and more with a few simple tools.
Recorded on 2/05/21
15 Minutes to Mastery: Jumpstart Student Projects with Gale’s Topic Pages
Duration: 15 Minutes
Gale’s Topic Pages make starting a research project instantaneous with suggested subjects, topic overviews, and multiple content types curated on a single page. In this recorded 15 minute session, we share how Topic Pages can get your students out of topic indecision and into authoritative content to support their simplest or most complex research projects.
Recorded on 1/28/21
Support Hybrid Learning with Gale
Duration: 30 Minutes
A hybrid learning environment poses a unique issue: connecting virtual and classroom instruction to keep consistency for students. In this thirty-minute session we explore how Gale can help make that connection through LMS integration, collaboration tools (including Google Classroom) and our Highlights and Notes feature.
Recorded on 1/27/21
15 Minutes to Mastery: Expand Research Skills with Gale's Highlights and Notes
Duration: 15 Minutes
Gale’s Highlights and Notes helps users develop and expand their research skills. In this 15 minutes to mastery session recording, we’ll share best practices and unique ideas for using the Highlights and Notes tool to support researchers of all levels.
Recorded on 1/21/21
15 Minutes To Mastery: Enhance Virtual Reference With Gale’s Get Link
Duration: 15 Minutes
Gale’s Get Link tool can help you easily share content when serving your patrons and students virtually. In this 15 Minutes to Mastery session, we shared how to easily direct users into relevant content from your Gale resources.
Recorded on 1/14/21
Simplify Student Research with Gale
Duration: 30 Minutes
Help your students work smarter, not harder to find credible sources when it's time to "Google it". In this recorded webinar, we explore time-saving features that win students over to your Gale databases including built-in citations, peer-reviewed and full-text filters, “more like this” articles, and Google Drive/Microsoft OneDrive integration.
Recorded on 12/16/20
For NOVELNY: Dig Deeper With Your NOVELNY/Gale Resources
Duration: 45 Minutes
Feeling comfortable with your Gale resources from NOVELNY but want to dig in a little? This session is for you! You’ll discover advanced methods for using resource features and document tools. If you’ve developed basic skills using your Gale resources, watch this webinar for unique content discoveries and ways to share with your users!
Recorded on 12/07/20
Reach More Users with Gale Accessibility Tools
Duration: 30 Minutes
Discover accessibility support tools available in your Gale resources to help you reach more users! In this webinar, we learned how rich multimedia content and tools like text-to-speech and translate can meet the needs of all your users.
Recorded on 11/18/20
For NOVELNY: Get To Know Your NOVELNY Resources from Gale
New to your organization or NOVELNY/Gale digital resources? Need a refresher? Then this session is for you! Your Gale resources from NOVELNY offer a rich collection of content from current newspapers to popular reference content to engaging multimedia. In this session, we provided an overview of what’s available and best practices for putting it to work in your school, public, or academic library. Recorded 11-10-20
Recorded on 11/10/20
Using Gale In Context Resources to Support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Education
Duration: 45 Minutes
In this informative webinar, we explored how Gale’s In Context resources can help support your anti-racism and inclusion programming, curriculum, and other efforts to help facilitate meaningful conversations about race, diversity, and inclusion.
Recorded on 10/28/20
For NOVELNY: Create Online Student Connections with Your NOVELNY-Gale Resources
Your Gale resources from NOVELNY offer valuable tools and cross-curricular content to develop and enhance learning activities, whether your classroom is in-person or online. In this session, we reviewed your Gale resources and showed off collaboration and sharing tools as well as shared best practices for putting content to work for your learners. Recorded 10-20-20
Recorded on 10/20/20
Discover Primary Source Documents within Gale In Context
Duration: 30 Minutes
Primary sources within your Gale In Context resources provide first-hand insight into history and valuable comparisons to current events. This webinar will share strategies to help you discover Gale In Context primary sources and use these documents to enhance course instruction and assignments
Recorded on 9/24/20
Prepare for Presidential Elections with Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints
Duration: 30 Minutes
Provide patrons reputable, non-partisan information with Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints. In this recorded webinar, we’ll discover resources to understand all sides of social issues and develop informed stances on political candidates.
Recorded on 9/18/20
For NOVELNY: Gale’s New Support Site for NOVELNY
Duration: 30 Minutes
As you work to support your communities, your NOVELNY partner, Gale is here to support you with a brand-new, customized support site experience at https://support.gale.com/novelny! In this webinar, we explored support site offerings such as training and marketing materials, scavenger hunts, resources guides, and more! And, importantly, as you might be supporting your users remotely more, we shared how to get geo-authenticated URLs, also known as geolinks, for your NOVELNY resources (Gale and Britannica) so users don't have to enter their library card number or password to access the resources from home!
**While viewing, keep in mind that if your library is a branch or member of
a larger system, that you may be using their “parent” account (location id) for
database access. If you have any questions, reach out to your Gale Customer
Success Manager at [email protected].**
Recorded 6-23-20
Recorded on 6/23/20
For NOVELNY: Gale/NOVELNY Resources and LibGuides
Taken in aggregate, your Gale collection from NOVELNY holds a myriad of materials – from scholarly viewpoints to exclusive primary sources to engaging multimedia – offering an incredibly deep wealth of content and context to support faculty who want to refresh, revise or even replace course material. In this webinar, we'll share how you can integrate this content into your library's LibGuides using Gale Bookmarks. Join us to learn more! A continuing education certificate will be provided upon completion. Recorded 6-10-19
Recorded on 6/10/19
For NOVELNY: Using Gale Support Tools
NOVELNY and Gale have a variety of support tools that can help you market and use our resources to their best advantage. The NOVELNY Marketing Toolkit and Gale's support site offer already prepared bookmarks, posters, and social media posts for your use. Gale's support page offers a range of materials - on-demand tutorials, resource guides, widgets, and more - that you can use to educate end users, train new library staff, and more. Join us during this webinar so you can learn how to make these support tools work for you!
Recorded on 5/07/19
For NOVELNY: Gale's Educator's Reference Complete
This collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports is a great resource for any educator—from the school teacher and administrator to those studying in the field at the collegiate and graduate level. Educator's Reference Complete seeks to provide full text for titles in the Eric database and covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty—such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. It also provides insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy. In this webinar, we'll share best practices for putting this resource to work and how you can save time and money buy using it to subscribe to your professional development journals! Recorded 4-4-19
Recorded on 4/04/19
For NOVELNY: Gale's InfoTrac Collections
What are Gale's InfoTrac Collections? Looking for a great dessert? Try Culinary Arts Collection! Starting to plan your next great vacation? Start with Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection! Researching invasive species? Try the Environmental Studies and Policy Collection! In this webinar, we'll explore what the InfoTrac Collections are made of and how they can be incorporated into your library.
Recorded on 3/04/19
For NOVELNY: InfoTrac Newsstand Refresher
InfoTrac Newsstand provides access to more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts. In this webinar, we'll explore how to find what you need from current news to obituaries for genealogy researchers!
Recorded on 2/04/19
For NOVELNY: Opposing Viewpoints In Context Refresher
Looking for a refresher on Opposing Viewpoints In Context? Then this session is for you! Opposing Viewpoints in Context is the premier online resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration. Opposing Viewpoints in Context helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more. Tune into this 30-minute webinar to learn how to find reading level appropriate viewpoint essays, reference articles, current periodicals, multimedia, and more by using Opposing Viewpoints In Context's engaging, streamlined interface! Recorded 1-14-19
Recorded on 1/14/19
For NOVELNY: Discovering Primary Documents in In Context
Primary documents are more important than ever and your Gale In Context resources from NOVELNY have a rich collection of primary sources and this webinar is designed to help you discover them! We'll share the best search practices for finding what you need and how to browse what's available. A continuing education certificate will be provided upon completion. Recorded 1-10-19
Recorded on 1/10/19
For NOVELNY: Gale's Academic OneFile Refresher
Academic OneFile is Gale's premiere periodical database for academic and scholarly journals. Join us for this webinar to refresh your knowledge on what you can expect to find here, using deep dive searches, and how to integrate it's content into libguides, online syllabi, and more! Recorded 12-4-18
Recorded on 12/04/18
For NOVELNY: Libraries Mean Business
In this webinar we'll explore ways Business Insights: Essentials will help students with a business or marketing case study, entrepreneurs building and developing their business, and general researchers looking for company and financial information. Learn more about the content and enhanced functionality that enables librarians and researchers to delve deeper into business data with access to financial analysis tools, business associations, investment reports and market research reports.
Recorded 11-13-18
Recorded on 11/13/18
For NOVELNY: Supporting Elementary Students Using Kids InfoBits
Let's help elementary students grow their digital literacy skills with Kids InfoBits from NOVELNY! This resource is designed with our youngest students in mind to help with classroom projects and homework; the easy to use interface is great way to get young learners started on the path to successful research skills. Join us to learn ways to engage elementary age students with Kids InfoBits! A continuing education certificate will be provided upon completion. Recorded 11-12-18
Recorded on 11/12/18
For NOVELNY: Supporting Social Studies with Gale-NOVELNY Digital Resources
In this webinar we'll cover how NOVELNY can help support the New York State K-12 Social Studies Framework with a variety of authoritative, online digital content sources. Gale digital resources from NOVELNY provide informational text, primary sources, and multimedia that support classroom instruction and student research. We'll share examples of successful lesson plans and handouts for your own use. We encourage you to invite your social studies teachers to attend with you! Recorded 9-18-2018
Recorded on 9/18/18
For NOVELNY: Put Google and Microsoft Tools to Work in Your NOVELNY/Gale Resources
The key to connecting users to trustworthy, relevant content is ensuring that it appears in their workflow. Cloud based tools from Google and Microsoft are part of our lives professionally and personally. In this webinar, we'll explore the integration of these tools into Gale resources and how you can put them to work in the library, the classroom, and wherever else you need them! Please note, we'll be using a new webinar tool called GoToMeeting that offers an improved user experience - no downloads, no plug-ins! Recorded for NOVELNY 8-6-2018
Recorded on 8/06/18
For NOVELNY: Gale's Easy To Use Usage Stats Analysis Tool
Gale has an additional tool for exploring your database usage! This interactive and intuitive dashboard allows you to pull standard usage around sessions, retrievals, searches, etc. but also provides analysis for year over year usage, visual results and allows you to dig deeper; for example, you can see the search terms being used in your library, which can aid in collection development! Join us to learn more! Please note, we'll be using a new webinar tool called GoToMeeting that offers an improved user experience - no downloads, no plug-ins! Recorded for NOVELNY 7-13-2018
Recorded on 7/13/18
For NOVELNY: Summer Reading Support Using NOVELNY/Gale Resources
Libraries Rock! Summer reading programs encourage children, youth and families to read and helps children maintain reading skills. As you prepare your programs, your NOVELNY Gale resources can trigger ideas and provide additional routes to reading! This webinar will reveal connections between NOVELNY Gale resources to summer reading initiatives in your library using this year's theme: Libraries Rock! Youll learn how to connect users with information on the go, and youll walk away with ideas to make this summer a stand-out for your users! Please note, we'll be using a new webinar tool called GoToMeeting that offers an improved user experience - no downloads, no plug-ins! Recorded for NOVELNY 6-18-2018
Recorded on 6/18/18
For NOVELNY: Tips and Tricks for Success with your NOVELNY Gale Resources
Forget spring cleaning—summer is the perfect time to freshen up! As your research needs slow down a little in the summer, join this session to learn about the materials and tools available to support your success using your NOVELNY resources. Youll learn how to leverage available promotional materials, customize your Gale Admin settings for success, and explore training and classroom-integration resources. A continuing education certificate will be provided upon completion. Recorded for NOVELNY 6-5-2018
Recorded on 6/05/18
For NOVELNY: Gale's PowerSearch Refresher
What is Gale's PowerSearch? PowerSearch offers a way to search several of your NOVELNY resources at once! In this session, we'll explore what Gale's cross-search tool can do for you! Recorded for NOVELNY 5-18-2018
Recorded on 5/18/18
For NOVELNY: Business Insights: Essentials Refresher
Business Insights: Essentials offers a wide variety of resource to support business research. It's got great support for company, market, and industry research but can also be an excellent professional development tool for a variety of industries. In this session, we'll follow several paths for supporting reference business needs. Recorded for NOVELNY 5-15-2018
Recorded on 5/15/18
For NOVELNY: Supporting Adult Critical Thinking with Opposing Viewpoints In Context
Opposing Viewpoints In Context has always been a perfect fit for research in high schools but adults can get a lot of this resource as well. In today's complicated world, Opposing Viewpoints In Context can help folks think deeper about issues and help them make confident, opinionated decisions. Recorded for NOVELNY 5-11-2018
Recorded on 5/11/18
For NOVELNY: Gale's General OneFile Refresher
General OneFile is Gale's premiere periodical database for a general audience. Did you know it has Fodor's travel guides? That you can use it to find product reviews? Join us for this refresher session on one of Gale's longtime, well-loved resources! Recorded for NOVELNY 3-12-2018
Recorded on 3/12/18
For NOVELNY: Kids InfoBits as a Teacher Tool
Kids InfoBits has always been a great tool for elementary age students and their research needs but it can be a great tool for teachers as well. We'll share how to find content that support classroom learning and how to that content right in your students' hands! Recorded for NOVELNY 2-8-2018
Recorded on 2/08/18
For NOVELNY: Opposing Viewpoints In Context Chrome Extension
Gale has launched a Google Chrome extension for Opposing Viewpoints In Context! This puts related search results from Opposing Viewpoints In Context right on your Google search results page! Tune into this webinar to see how to install and set-up the extension and see it in action! Recorded for NOVELNY 12-11-2017
Recorded on 12/11/17
For NOVELNY: Fight Fake News: Harnessing the Power of your NOVELNY Gale Resources
Are your users tired of fake news? Your library has a wealth of authoritative, current, balanced news and information sources in your NOVELNY resources from Gale. In this session, we'll share best practices for bringing users into these resources, showing how transparent they are, and providing tips for ways your library can fight fake news with these great tools at your back! Recorded for NOVELNY 10-25-2017
Recorded on 10/25/17
For NOVELNY: Getting to Know Research In Context
On July 1, 2017, Gale's Research In Context launched for NOVELNY users and this webinar will provide an overview of this outstanding resource! Research In Context is designed to bridge the gap between the Kids InfoBits resource for elementary school students and the subject-specific Gale In Context family, for high school and undergraduate students. Students in grades 6 to 8 will benefit from an interface that delivers the highly visual design and navigation preferred by younger users combined with the authoritative content and user-focused tool set needed to support middle school assignments and coursework. In this 30-minute webinar, well explore how this resource can support students and provide best practices for finding what you need! Recorded for NOVELNY 9-19-2017
Recorded on 9/19/17
For NOVELNY: Usage Reports and Your Gale Resources
Would you like to know more about your Gale database usage? In this online workshop we will cover Gales Usage Tool; find out how often the resources are used; and which are most popular. Instruction will include creating reports on-demand as well as setting up monthly reports. Recorded for NOVELNY 8-7-2017
Recorded on 8/07/17
For NOVELNY: Getting to Know Informe and Educator's Reference Complete
Starting July1, NOVELNY will offer Gale's Académico and Educator's Reference Complete periodical resources and we want to show you what they're made of! Informe Académico meets the research needs of Spanish-speaking users with a wide range of full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America. With more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports, Educator's Reference Complete is a great resource for any educator--from the school teacher and administrator to those studying in the field at the collegiate and graduate level. In this 30-minute webinar, we'll explore the content in these resources and share best practices. Recorded for NOVELNY 7-24-2017
Recorded on 7/24/17
For NOVELNY: Job Search Support with your NOVELNY Gale Resources
Job searches can be an intimidating prospect in an already intimidating process. In this session well share ideas for using your NOVELNY Gale resources to help job seekers research companies, industries, and interviewing and resume skills. Join us to pick up some new ways to assist your job and career seekers! Recorded for NOVELNY 5-4-2017
Recorded on 5/04/17
For NOVELNY: Using NOVELNY Gale Resources to Support Professional Development in your Business Community
Everyone wants to grow professionally, and your business community has excellent tools at their fingertips to help them do that with your NOVELNY Gale resources. The InfoTrac Collections and Business Insights: Essentials provide a variety of magazines, journals, and reference sources that can keep professionals informed and build their expertise. Join us to learn how to use these resources to their fullest potential with your business community! Recorded for NOVELNY 4-24-2017
Recorded on 4/24/17
For NOVELNY: Support Library Professional Development with Your NOVELNY Gale Resources
Whether you are brand new to the world of libraries or a seasoned veteran, your NOVELNY Gale resources can help make you a library rock star. Join us to learn how to use tools in your InfoTrac resources like publication search, sharing and more, to grow your knowledge of key trends and library discussions! Recorded for NOVELNY 4-21-2017
Recorded on 4/17/17
For NOVELNY: Homework Help with NOVELNY
This course will provide users with an overview of the best NOVELNY Gale resources to assist elementary, middle, and high school students with homework assignments. A practical and multidisciplinary approach will be used to enlighten attendees about the NOVELNY Gale resources students. Practice reference questions and student assignments will be provided to help teach the practical application of the database to real life student research. The attendees will be taught the most effective and efficient search strategies to obtain the best set of search results for patron questions and research. Recorded for NOVELNY 3-20-2017
Recorded on 3/20/17
For NOVELNY: Microsoft Integration and Your Gale Resources
Join us in this webinar to learn more about how to take advantage of the Microsoft integration in your Gale resources! We will be discovering how to export content to Microsoft OneDrive in a variety of ways and different ways to make use of the new tool. Gale is excited to offer this new integration with Microsoft OneDrive! Recorded for NOVELNY 5-9-2017
Recorded on 3/09/17
For NOVELNY: Prepare for Women's History Month with Your NOVELNY Gale Resources
Excite your users with inspiring information from your NOVELNY Gale Resources during Women's History Month! This webinar will offer ideas for leveraging your resources to build understanding and encourage exploration of women's suffrage, feminism, and much more! Join us to discuss leveraging and promoting your Gale NOVELNY resources as part of your library's Women's History celebrations! Recorded for NOVELNY 2-10-2017
Recorded on 2/10/17