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Books & Authors offers countless ways to explore authors, titles, genres, and literary topics so that you can discover books that you won't be able to put down. This webinar covers navigation to specific works and writers of interest, and demonstrates how to use features to browse and serendipitously discover titles of interest.
ChiltonLibrary supplies a solution for the automotive 'do-it-yourselfer' with repair, maintenance and specification tables provide critical data on thousands of domestic and imported models of cars and light trucks. This webinar covers how to select a year, make, and model, and navigate repair, maintenance, recall information, and more!
Gale Virtual Reference Library provides nonfiction eBooks with ultimate access and usage flexibility, and its getting even better! You are now able to curate GVRL titles and organize them into book carts that meet your teachers & students needs. This session will focus on creating the book carts and the many ways you can share them with your school community. Key GVRL features like unlimited simultaneous use of titles and flexible searching will also be discussed.
The Gale Digital Scholar Lab is a cloud-based research environment that allows students and researchers to apply natural language processing tools to raw text data (OCR) from Gale's Primary Sources in a single research platform. This webinar shows you how to create a content set, clean text, and run an analysis in Digital Scholar Lab.
The Gale Usage Portal provides fast, flexible access to Gale database usage statistics, and includes the ability to create and save custom reports. This webinar shows libraries what reports are available, and explores how to pull usage statistics immediately, as well as how to schedule and manage recurring reports. 30min.
Career Transitions is a complete, self-paced application that walks job-seekers through the entire process from assessing strengths and interests, to exploring new opportunities, to ultimately improving the chances of landing a job. In this webinar, we'll share how to take advantage of this resource for first time job seekers as well as people interested in finding a new career!
Gale Admin provides library administrators a web-based set of tools to support and configure Gale resources. This webinar shows library administrators with Gale Admin access credentials how to manage authentication methods, customize product preferences, set up third-party links, and more.
Gale Business: DemographicsNow is a comprehensive business tool that provides up-to-date and easy access to an array of geographically aligned demographic data perfect for obtaining insights to develop business plans, marketing strategies, and even grant applications. This webinar covers navigation of available data and features.
Gale Business: Entrepreneurship (previously Small Business Resource Center) is receiving interface enhancements designed to increase access to library resources and have a greater impact on user success. (Learn more about these enhancements here: https://www.gale.com/product-enhancements.) In this webinar, we'll share what's changing and how these improvements will help users research smarter, not harder.
Gale Business : Plan Builder is a step-by-step online planning tool for starting, managing and optimizing a business or nonprofit. This webinar covers the five main areas Gale Business : Plan Builder walks users through in order to develop a business plan focused on long-term success.
Gale Directory Library allows you to easily search your Gale directories to find relevant data like contact information for organizations and companies based on things like industry and size. This webinar covers Gale Directory Library's user-friendly tools, and also covers best practices for searching for relevant listings.
Gale Health and Wellness (previously Health & Wellness Resource Center) is receiving interface enhancements designed to increase access to library resources and have a greater impact on user success. (Learn more about these enhancements here: https://www.gale.com/product-enhancements.) In this webinar, we'll share what's changing and how these improvements will help users research smarter, not harder.
Gale In Context resources are receiving interface enhancements designed to increase access to library resources and have a greater impact on user success. (Learn more about these enhancements here: https://www.gale.com/product-enhancements.) In this webinar, we'll share what's changing with Gale In Context: Biography (previously Biography In Context), Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints (previously Opposing Viewpoints In Context), and other popular Gale In Context resources and how these improvements will help users research smarter, not harder.
Gale In Context: Middle School (previously Research In Context) is receiving interface enhancements designed to increase access to library resources and have a greater impact on user success. (Learn more about these enhancements here: https://www.gale.com/product-enhancements.) In this webinar, we'll share what's changing with Gale In Context: Middle School and how these improvements will help students research smarter, not harder.
Gale In Context: Environmental Studies (previously GREENR) resource is receiving interface enhancements designed to increase access to library resources and have a greater impact on user success. (Learn more about these enhancements here: https://www.gale.com/product-enhancements.) In this webinar, we'll share what's changing with Gale In Context: Environmental Studies and how these improvements will help users research smarter, not harder.
Gale Interactive: Chemistry allows users to manipulate and explore the periodic table, molecules and other 3D models to better visualize and understand concepts in Chemistry. Reference and periodical content provide additional context for further understanding. This webinar covers organization of the resource, functionality of the activities, and best practices for sharing information.
Gale Interactive: Human Anatomy allows users to manipulate and explore 3D models to better visualize and understand human anatomy. Reference and periodical content provide additional context for further understanding. This webinar covers organization of the resource, functionality of the activities, and best practices for sharing information.
Gale Interactive: Science allows students to interact with 3d models to better visualize and understand concepts in biology, chemistry, earth, and space science. This webinar covers navigation and tools, and shows how to use this resource in assignments and classroom demonstrations.
Gale LegalForms provides professionally written, national and state-specific attorney forms to help you participate in your legal affairs and common legal procedures with confidence. This webinar covers form navigation and format, so that you can find and customize documents of interest.
Gale Literary Sources is the new cross-search of the Gale Literature products in Gales mobile responsive design. This innovative product will allows you to fully integrate primary sources such as poems, short stories, plays and speeches with secondary content such as criticism articles, analysis of particular works, and biographies on the different authors.
Gale OneFile periodical resources are receiving interface enhancements designed to increase access to library resources and have a greater impact on user success. Learn more at our product enhancements site: https://www.gale.com/product-enhancements. In this webinar, we'll share what's changing with Gale Academic OneFile, Gale General OneFile, Gale OneFile: News (previously InfoTrac Newsstand) and other popular Gale OneFile periodical resources and how these improvements will help users research smarter, not harder.
Gale Pages is a fully customizable site for all your valuable library resources. Attend this webinar to learn about Gale Pages and the basics of customizing your site to accommodate the library's digital resources. Attendees will walk away with access to their library's Gale Pages site and an overview of Gale Pages Studio for making edits and updates.
GVRL provides unlimited 24/7 access to nonfiction eBooks. Libraries determine the specific titles they would like to own, so the titles shown in this webinar may vary from the eBooks in your collection. This webinar covers the basics of GVRL, including browsing eBooks, searching within eBooks/subjects/collections, and managing html and PDF entries with features like citations, highlights and notes, and Gale to Google/Microsoft integration.
The ASCD professional development collection on Gale Virtual Reference Library provides practical teaching techniques and innovative ideas for educators. This webinar covers how to explore the ASCD titles and utilize GVRL tools, and also covers best practices that teachers and schools are utilizing to provide world-class education services and activities to foster educational equality for all students.
Camerons Collection on GVRL provides titles to help nurture and protect students' mental health and wellness, and includes ideas for creating a peaceful school environment. This webinar covers this collection's content and useful GVRL tools, and provides tips for finding articles to help students struggling with mental health issues.
Gale Virtual Reference Library provides nonfiction eBooks with ultimate access and usage flexibility, and is customizable to your library's preferences. This webinar shows libraries how to use the GVRL Customization Portal to customize their GVRL homepage, and organize GVRL titles into groups that match users' needs.
The Dave Burgess Collection on Gale Virtual Reference Library provides instructors with innovative ideas and practical teaching techniques. This half hour webinar explores titles in the collection while demonstrating helpful navigation and document tools, and also covers best practices that districts and schools have utilized to implement the titles in this unique collection.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) is an online resource of electronic encyclopedias and specialized reference sources, also known as eBooks, for multidisciplinary research. This webinar covers how to use the travel guides available in GVR, discusses best practices to connect your users with the content, and shows you how to link the travel titles to library programming.
This webinar, intended for library staff, will walk through the process of creating subcollections using the GVRL Subcollection Manager. These subcollections group GVRL titles into pages with their own access points in addition to the library's general collection.
Gale has a new 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 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! Recorded 12-18-18
Kids InfoBits is a highly visual and engaging resource designed for beginner researchers in grades K-5. Multimedia materials and subject-based topic tree search functionality allows young learners to navigate with confidence. This webinar will review the tools and features in Kids InfoBits, as well as the great support materials available to help your learning community thrive.
LitFinder offers thousands of full-text poems, short stories, essays, speeches and plays written by authors from all time periods and geographies. This webinar provides basic coverage information, details navigation strategies, and highlights promotional tools for National Poetry Month and other events.
Literature Resource Center provides biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers from all time periods, disciplines, and locations. This webinar will cover best practices for navigation and searching, tools and features for more effective research and Google/Microsoft integration.
National Geographic Kids provides access to videos, pictures, and books from National Geographic, as well as every page of National Geographic Kids magazine. This webinar covers navigation tips and document tools while also sharing ideas for using this engaging resource to support learning,
Questia School provides access to 94,000 full-text digital books, 10 million articles, and research tools. Students can store and organize materials to help with research projects and papers. This webinar, intended for Questia administrators, reviews the admin platform and the processes of bulk uploading, uploading individuals, managing student and teacher accounts, and pulling usage.
Smithsonian Primary Sources in U.S. History includes unique and seminal primary sources, including documents, maps, historical objects, and other materials from the museums and archives from the collections of the Smithsonian and from Gales leading digital collections. This webinar covers how to find the information needed for core and Advanced Placement U.S. History Programs, and details how the information can be utilized by teachers, students, and librarians.
This summer, Gale is releasing experience and design changes across its portfolio of products. These product enhancements are designed to increase access to library resources online, in the classroom and have a greater impact on user success. In this webinar, we'll offer a sneak peek at these changes.
Great new features have been added to the test taking experience in Testing & Education Reference Center! In this webinar we will explore the new Study Plan, test reset capabilities, account view, and many more tools that will allow your users to maximize their learning and ace their tests!
Testing & Education Reference Center provides tools to achieve educational and professional success, including practice exams, financial aid information, school and scholarship searches, and career tools. This webinar covers searching for undergraduate and graduate school programs, locating resources to help pay for college, career exploration tools (career profiles, career assessment and the resume builder), preparatory tests, and eBooks.
With millions of primary source pages, The Making of the Modern World tracks the development of the modern, western world through the lens of trade and wealth. This webinar explores the abundance of rare books and primary source material within The Making of the Modern World, shares research best practices, and provides tips and tricks for sharing the information with students and researchers.
