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Upcoming Webinars
Back to School Thriving with New Diversity and Social & Emotional Learning Resources in Gale In Context: For Educators
You and your students are moving forward from a year of unfinished learning and unimaginable stress. Gale In Context: For Educators is here to help you rise to the challenge with instructional materials to meet students where they are.
Join this 45-minute webinar designed for educators and librarians and learn to access new social and emotional learning (SEL) and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) resources and lesson plans within Gale In Context: For Educators. W
View More Register NowGet the Word Out: School Librarians Share Their Gale Resource Promotion Stories
You've invested time, thought, and budget dollars to create an amazing collection of materials for your teachers and students. Make sure it receives the attention it deserves! Join us in this webinar to hear from school librarians, Christy James (Charleston County School District, SC) and Kristin Whitworth (Dover High School, NH), who will share their stories about how they got the word out about their digital resources. As this session is built to be a conversation, please bring your questions
View More Register NowRecorded Webinars
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.
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.
15 Minutes to Mastery: Advanced Search
Duration: 15 Minutes
Discover how Gale’s Advanced Search tools can quickly get the most relevant materials into the hands of your users in public, academic, and K-12 libraries. In this recorded webinar, we'll explore how Advanced Search can improve reference for your patrons, whether it’s getting to additional resources or refining results by reading level, content type, publication, or subject.
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.
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.
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.
15 Minutes to Mastery: Prevent Learning Loss with Gale in Context Resources
Duration: 15 Minutes
Inspire and engage students over the summer so that they’re motivated, confident, and ready to tackle any learning challenge in the year ahead! With just a couple of clicks, you can use your Gale In Context resources to share trusted topic overviews, short videos, articles from top publications, and more to spark learners’ interest and encourage summer exploration of quality sources. In this webinar, we explore how to quickly find information on trending topics, send it to students, and keep them interested in learning so that they’re prepared for the new school year.
15 Minutes to Mastery: Support Small Businesses with Gale LegalForms
Duration: 15 Minutes
As small business owners work to adapt their companies to the changing times, Gale can support their legal needs with Gale LegalForms. In this 15 minute session we review the forms available to entrepreneurs in your community focused on loans and lending, human resources, technology, and landlord and vendor agreements.
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.
15 minutes to Mastery: Summer Science Projects with Gale
Duration: 15 Minutes
Engage kids with fun, educational science experiments this summer! Your access to Gale In Context: Science and Gale In Context: Middle School provides hands-on educational activities and real-world application of science whenever curiosity strikes. In this recorded 15 minute session for librarians, educators and parents, we explore how to find hundreds of experiments to support student learning over summer break and throughout the year!
Address Changing Small Business Needs with Gale Business: Plan Builder
Duration: 30 Minutes
Gale Business: Plan Builder is a step-by-step online planning tool for starting, managing, and optimizing a business or nonprofit. In this session, we explored how the resource supports the needs of operating businesses that are analyzing and adapting to changing times.
Adult Book Club Support with Gale OneFile Resources
Duration: 30 Minutes
Book clubs promote a love of literature and critical thinking; why not help jump start discussion with in-depth literary criticism, author interviews, and more from your Gale OneFile resources? In this webinar, we explored finding engaging content in two Gale periodical resources, Gale General OneFile and Gale Academic OneFile and how you can share it with adult book club members to help strengthen discussion and gain new perspectives on book club selections.
After viewing this webinar, you’ll be able to:
- use database filters to find literary criticism, interviews, book reviews in Gale OneFile resources
- and use Get Link and retrieval options to share articles with book club members.
Intended audience: This training is designed for library staff who have access to Gale General OneFile and Gale Academic OneFile who support adult book clubs.
Bring CTE to Life for your Learning Community with your Gale Resources
Duration: 45 Minutes
Career and Technical Education is gaining steam in K12 and academic institutions and provides a platform with which to retrain adults for new careers. As more and more individuals look to train for technical careers, it is important to provide accurate, timely and easy to navigate information. Gale provides simple solutions to bring the real world to CTE courses and students, including Testing and Education Reference Center, Gale Health and Wellness, Chilton Online, and Gale Onefile Collections. In this recording we will review how Gale resources can be used in different CTE tracks, and the tools and features available within the resources.
Build Academic Library and Faculty Connections: A Conversation with Aquinas College
Duration: 45 Minutes
Building lines of communication to faculty is one of the most important and often difficult tasks assigned to academic librarians. View this 45 minute session with Mies Martin, Electronic Resources and Serial Librarian, and Kerri Orders Assistant Professor Business Administration Department at Aquinas College as they discuss how their collaboration has supported student learning both virtually and in person. Best practices for developing relationships is also discussed, to help you jump start your outreach.
This session is appropriate for both academic library staff and faculty from all institution types.
Build Better Mental Wellness with Gale Health and Wellness
Duration: 30 Minutes
Many things can impact our mental health, especially in these stressful times, but sharing information can help give us the tools we need to take care of ourselves and others. In this recording, you’ll learn about the mental health collection in Gale Health and Wellness and how it provides information and resources to promote better mental wellness.
Cameron's Collection Webinar
Duration: 30 Minutes
Cameron's Collection on the Gale eBooks platform provides titles to help nurture and protect students' mental health and wellness. The unique collection is for students from Middle School through College and gives students a safe and easy-to-use resource that could make all the difference to their overall mental health. Join this webinar to discover more about this collection's content and all the useful Gale eBook tools. You'll learn tips for finding content to help students struggling with mental health issues.
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.
Celebrate Women in Literature with Gale Literature Resources
Duration: 45 Minutes
Women’s History Month commemorates and encourages the study, observation, and celebration of the vital role of women in American history. In this webinar, we’ll honored women in literature by examining content and features in two of Gale’s literature resources, Gale Literature Resource Center and Gale Literature Criticism Online. We also shared how you can easily celebrate women writers with your users!
ChiltonLibrary Webinar
Duration: 30 Minutes
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!
Create Online Student Connections with Gale
Duration: 30 Minutes
Gale resources can facilitate connections between learners even when your learning community is working virtually. In this session we will review collaboration and sharing tools found within Gale in Context and Gale OneFile collections to support students and teachers.
Create a Gale Scavenger Hunt
Duration: 30 Minutes
Engage users with a fun and informative scavenger hunt. In this workshop recording, you will learn the key objectives to building a Gale scavenger hunt, explore content within Gale In Context resources, and receive a template to create your own unique scavenger hunt.
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.
Develop your Library Webpage to Support Online Learning with Gale For K12 and Academic Libraries
Duration: 30 Minutes
Now more than ever, students and teachers need a safe and reliable place to access information and resources to support assignments and projects. This recorded webinar explores the options and support tools Gale provides to organize your library web page, including Gale Pages, our updated Gale Product Menu, and our support site.
Develop your Library Webpage to Support Online Research with Gale For Public Libraries
Duration: 30 Minutes
Now more than ever, your patrons need safe and reliable access to information and resources that support research, further learning, and advancement of their goals. This session explores the best practices to organize your library web page, including Gale Pages, our updated Gale Product Menu, and our support site.
Develop your Online Teaching Strategy with Gale
Duration: 30 Minutes
Gale resources offer valuable tools and cross-curricular content to develop and enhance learning activities, whether your classroom is in-person or online. This recorded webinar explores ideas and best practices for incorporating Gale content into your lessons, class discussions, and more.
Digital Scholar Lab Webinar
Duration: 30 Minutes
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.
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
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.
Enhance Project-based Learning with Gale In Context
Duration: 45 Minutes
Your Gale In Context resources support Project-based Learning that teaches valuable problem-solving skills and inspires your students regardless of instructional format. In this session, we will apply Project-based Learning concepts to the content, tools and features in your Gale resources so that you can use these techniques in your classes!
Explore Gale In Context: For Educators
Duration: 60 Minutes
Gale In Context: For Educators provides K-12 educators premium cross-curricular content from Gale In Context resources combined with lesson planning and collaboration tools to support classroom and curriculum development. In this session we will cover August and September enhancements to folders and document tools, and review content and workflow within Gale In Context: For Educators.
Explore your Gale Usage Report Portal
Duration: 30 Minutes
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.
Gale Admin Webinar
Duration: 30 Minutes
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 Advanced Search Techniques
Duration: 30 Minutes
Gale’s Advanced Search tools help you efficiently guide learners to trusted sources. If you want to ramp up your advanced searching techniques to provide effective online reference assistance and get the best materials in the hands of your users, view this webinar recording!
The Gale product team wants to hear from you! Submit your feedback about Gale's Advanced Search features at https://surveys.hotjar.com/s?siteId=1459581&surveyId=159969.
Gale Books and Authors Webinar
Duration: 30 Minutes
Gale Books and 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.
Gale Business: DemographicsNow Webinar
Duration: 30 Minutes
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) Enhancements
Duration: 30 Minutes
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 Webinar
Duration: 30 Minutes
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
Duration: 30 Minutes
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 Enhancements
Duration: 30 Minutes
Gale Health and Wellness received interface enhancements designed to increase access to library resources and have a greater impact on user success. This recorded webinar shares what's changing and how these improvements help users research smarter, not harder.
Gale In Context Enhancements
Duration: 45 Minutes
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: Biography Webinar
Duration: 30 Minutes
Biography In Context is the first source to turn to for biographical research with periodicals, reference, multimedia, and more covering hundreds of thousands of individuals from all time periods, regions, and professions. This webinar covers basic search and browse navigation, and explores helpful tools for using available content.
Gale In Context: Canada Webinar
Duration: 30 Minutes
Gale In Context: Canada delivers a full range of country-specific topics including First Nations Government of Canada, Canadian Literature, Gun Control/Gun Registry, and biographies of Canadian figures, as well as information on technology, sports, industry, and more, all delivered from a uniquely Canadian perspective. This webinar covers navigation and explores tools that can be utilized to make this content accessible and easy to use in research and the classroom.
Gale In Context: Elementary
Duration: 30 Minutes
Gale In Context: Elementary has been enhanced to automatically include libraries’ existing k-5 Gale eBook titles. This update makes all Gale elementary content available in one place! Students are able to page through Gale eBooks in Gale In Context: Elementary’s kid-friendly interface, and teachers can discover curriculum-relevant eBooks alongside authoritative reference overviews, magazine articles, images, and more! In this session, we explore Gale In Context: Elementary content and features, plus review the new eBooks tab.
Gale In Context: Environmental Studies (previously GREENR) Enhancements
Duration: 30 Minutes
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 In Context: High School Webinar
Duration: 30 Minutes
Gale In Context: High School provides cross-curricular content on the most-studied topics aligned with national and state curriculum standards reinforcing the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation. In this session, we will explore this rich general reference resource that includes reference articles with critical thinking questions, primary sources, interactive video files, and more. Recent enhancements will be highlighted as well!
Gale In Context: Middle School
Duration: 30 Minutes
Gale In Context: Middle School is a research tool created to support developing middle school aged learners as they build critical thinking and research skills. Cross-curricular content combined with organizational tools such as Highlights and Notes, and a simple user interface helps learners feel confident as they explore. In this webinar we will review the tools and features available, as well as the simple design and workflow. Recent enhancements will be highlighted as well!
Gale In Context: Middle School (previously Research In Context) Enhancements
Duration: 30 Minutes
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: Opposing Viewpoints
Duration: 30 Minutes
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints is the premier online resource covering today's hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. In this webinar, we'll explore this rich resource for debaters that includes pro/con viewpoints, reference articles, interactive statistics, and more.
Gale In Context: Science
Duration: 30 Minutes
Gale In Context: Science provides contextual information on hundreds of today’s most significant science topics. By integrating authoritative, curriculum related reference content with multimedia materials including video, image, and audio files Gale In Context: Science pulls students into the subject matter and shows how scientific ideas relate to real world issues. In this webinar we will review the tools and features available to students, as well as the variety of content types. Recent enhancements will be highlighted as well!
Gale In Context: U.S. and World History Webinar
Duration: 30 Minutes
Gale In Context: U.S. and World History provide multimedia, reference, periodicals, and primary sources covering key figures and events in national and global history, respectively. This webinar covers available content within the resources, and explores navigation and document management tools.
Gale Interactive: Chemistry
Duration: 45 Minutes
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 platform navigation, text manipulation tools, and collaboration features as well as the workflow through activities.
Gale Interactive: Human Anatomy
Duration: 45 Minutes
Gale Interactive: Human Anatomy allows users to manipulate and explore 3D models to better visualize and understand human anatomy with system and region focused activities. Reference and periodical content provide additional context for further understanding. This webinar covers platform navigation, text manipulation tools, and collaboration features as well as the workflow through activities.
Gale Interactive: Science
Duration: 30 Minutes
Gale Interactive: Science allows students to interact with 3D models to better visualize and understand concepts in Biology, Chemistry, Earth, and Space science. Reference and periodical content provide additional context for further understanding. This webinar covers platform navigation, text manipulation tools, and collaboration features as well as the workflow through activities.
Gale LegalForms Webinar
Duration: 30 Minutes
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 Literature Criticism
Duration: 30 Minutes
Gale Literature Criticism Online (formerly Gale Literature Criticism) is receiving interface enhancements designed to increase access to library resources and have a greater impact on user success. (Learn more about these enhancements at 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 Literature Resource Center
Duration: 30 Minutes
Gale Literature Resource Center (previously called Literature Resource Center) is receiving interface enhancements designed to increase access to library resources and have a greater impact on user success. In this webinar, we'll share what's changing with Gale Literature Resource Center, including both interface and specific tool enhancements. Join us to learn how these improvements will help users research smarter, not harder. (Learn more about these enhancements at https://www.gale.com/product-enhancements.) This session will be recorded for those who can't attend.
Gale Literature Webinar
Duration: 30 Minutes
Gale's Literature product family is receiving interface enhancements designed to increase access to library resources and have a greater impact on user success. In this webinar, we'll share what's changing with Gale Literary Sources (now called Gale Literature), a cross-search of your library’s Gale literary databases that may include Literature Resource Center (now called Gale Literature Resource Center), LitFinder (now called Gale Literature: LitFinder), and Literature Criticism Online (now called Gale Literature Criticism). Join us to learn how these improvements will help users research smarter, not harder. (Learn more about these enhancements athttps://www.gale.com/product-enhancements.)
Gale Literature: LitFinder Enhancements
Duration: 30 Minutes
LitFinder (now called Gale Literature: LitFinder) is receiving interface enhancements 12-2019 designed to increase access to library resources and have a greater impact on user success. In this recorded webinar, we'll share what's changing with LitFinder, including both interface and specific tool enhancements. Join us to learn how these improvements will help users research smarter, not harder. (Learn more about these enhancements at https://www.gale.com/product-enhancements.)
Gale OneFile Enhancements
Duration: 30 Minutes
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 OneFile and PowerSearch webinar
Duration: 30 Minutes
Gale OneFile periodical collections, including Gale Academic OneFile and Gale General OneFile, provide access to premium periodicals with powerful search and document tools. This webinar covers Gale OneFile periodical collections and the PowerSearch cross-search, including navigation options, and user-friendly tools.
Gale Pages: Organize your Library Resources
Duration: 45 Minutes
Finding a solution to organize library resources with a simple, clear access point can be a challenge. Gale Pages is a complimentary tool for libraries with Gale resources that solves the problem by providing an easy-to-customize site to hold all of your digital resources. Join Gale Training Consultant, Tammi VanBuren and guest speakers Melissa Adelman from Humble ISD’s Kingwood High School and Tim Hamlin from Gale’s Customer Success team to explore Gale Pages best practices and to learn where to get started!
Gale Presents: Peterson's Career Prep
Duration: 30 Minutes
Gale Presents: Peterson’s Career Prep supports users building resumes, job hunting, or searching for new careers. In this webinar we will explore the user-friendly tools available to discover career paths and craft professional resumes and job application materials.
Gale Presents: Peterson's Test Prep
Duration: 30 Minutes
Testing & Education Reference Center will become Gale Presents: Peterson's Test Prep on December 18th. In this session we explore the available practice tests, test prep materials and information on thousands of colleges and graduate schools, and provide a sneak peek of the homepage update.
Gale Primary Sources
Duration: 45 Minutes
Gale Primary Sources is receiving interface enhancements designed to increase access to library resources and have a greater impact on user success. In this webinar, we'll share what's changing with Gale Primary Sources, including both interface and specific tool enhancements. Join us to learn how these improvements will help users research smarter, not harder.
Gale Support Roundtable for Academic Libraries
Duration: 45 Minutes
As you work to support your institution online, Gale Customer Success and Training are here to answer your questions and help you connect with your users in new ways. Join Gale Customer Success Manager, Stephen Lank and Gale Training Consultant, Marian Valentine for quick tips related to common support and access questions.
Gale Support Roundtable for K-12 Libraries
Duration: 30 Minutes
As you work to support your school online, Gale Customer Success and Training are here to answer your questions and help you connect with your students and teachers in new ways. Join Gale Customer Success Manager, Lauren Mathewson and Gale Training Consultant, Tammi VanBuren for quick tips related to common support and access questions. Bring your questions for the open Q&A to address your specific needs.
Gale Support Roundtable for Public Libraries
Duration: 45 Minutes
As you work to support your community online, Gale Customer Success and Training are here to answer your questions and help you connect with your users in new ways. Join Gale Customer Success Managers, Kevin Teller and Anne Nagrant, and Gale Training Consultant, Stacey Knibloe for quick tips related to common support and access questions. Bring your questions for the open Q&A to address your specific needs.
Gale eBooks Webinar
Duration: 30 Minutes
Gale eBooks 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 Gale eBooks, 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.
Gale eBooks: Professional Learning
Duration: 30 Minutes
Professional Development collections on Gale eBooks provide practical teaching techniques and innovative ideas for educators. In this webinar, you’ll learn to navigate titles in your professional development collection, explore document tools and techniques to enhance your learning and share with colleagues, and discover best practices that districts and schools have utilized to implement the titles in their collections.
Gale's Usage Dashboard - Enhanced Usage Reporting
Duration: 30 Minutes
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!
Get Started with Gale
Duration: 30 Minutes
New to your organization or Gale digital resources? Need a refresher? Gale is here to help you get started, with key features and content to support your users! In this recorded webinar you'll learn about your Gale resources, discover useful shared tools, and find support to continue training at your own pace.
Head Back to School with Gale In Context: Elementary
Duration: 30 Minutes
Kick off the new school year with Gale In Context: Elementary (formerly Kids InfoBits), and give kids a safe place to find answers to their questions, practice research skills, and explore age-appropriate premium sources about their favorite subjects. In this webinar, we’ll discover engaging multimedia, articles, and facts, and highlight features to help instructors increase student engagement and enhance online instruction.
Help Kids Learn at Home with Miss Humblebee’s Academy
Duration: 45 Minutes
Miss Humblebee's Academy is an interactive and highly visual resource perfect to support online learning for children aged three to six. Cross curricular lessons aligned to preschool and elementary standards include music, math, art, language and literacy, social studies and science. Mobile responsiveness and printable materials allow learning to extend beyond the computer, to help parent build a learning schedule while at home. In this session we will review the content and features available in Miss Humblebee’s Academy, as well as best practices on how to leverage it at home.
Increase Access and Discovery with Gale Integration in your LMS!
Duration: 45 Minutes
Enhance virtual learning by integrating Gale content into learning management systems, like Schoology, Blackboard, Canvas, and more. In this webinar recording, we’ll share how institutions have built instruction using Gale content in an LMS, provide best practices for incorporating the content, and show how to get set up so students can access Gale content from their assignments.
Library Professional Development with your Gale Periodical Resources
Duration: 30 Minutes
Your Gale periodical resources are always ready to serve student and patron needs but what about professional development for library staff? Read up on new ideas in libraries, best practices and more from titles like Booklist, School Library Journal, Reference & User Services Quarterly, and Library Philosophy and Practice. We shared how to find these titles, set up in-database subscriptions, and more! Libraries who subscribe to Gale Academic OneFile, Gale General OneFile, or Gale OneFile: Information Science will get the most out of this session.
Market Your Gale Academic Library Resources
Duration: 45 Minutes
You’ve invested in an amazing digital collection for your academic library – make sure it gets the attention it deserves! Checkout this recorded webinar to learn outreach tips to engage with faculty and students, discover marketing materials available to promote your collection, and see effective strategies for spreading the word about your Gale resources on campus. (40:38)
Market Your Gale K-12 Library Resources
Duration: 30 Minutes
You’ve invested in the creation of an amazing digital collection for your students and teachers; make sure it gets the use it deserves! Stephanie Baroni, Gale Marketing Director for K-12 Libraries and Stacey Knibloe, Senior Gale Training Consultant shared ways to incorporate effective strategies for spreading the word about your Gale digital collection.
Marketing Your Gale Digital Collection
Duration: 30 Minutes
You've invested time, thought, and budget dollars to create an amazing collection of materials for your teachers, students, and patrons but perhaps you've found that the digital portion of your resources doesn't always get the attention it deserves. View this recorded webinar to learn creative and effective strategies for spreading the word about your Gale digital collection and make sure those great resources get used! In this recorded session we showcase marketing materials and outreach templates available for all your Gale products, discuss how to create a content calendar to promote your collection year round, and outline steps to develop a marketing plan focused on your unique users.
Marketing Your Gale Public Library Resources
Duration: 45 Minutes
You’ve invested in an amazing digital collection for your public library – make sure it gets the attention it deserves! Checkout this recorded webinar to learn outreach tips to engage with your patrons, discover marketing materials available to promote your collection, and discuss effective strategies for spreading the word about your Gale resources in your community. (37:42)
National Geographic Kids Webinar
Duration: 30 Minutes
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,
Online Learning Tools Within Your Gale Resources
Duration: 30 Minutes
As your school or institution quickly makes the move from in-person courses to online learning, your Gale resources are here to help! Join this webinar for quick tips on common Gale tools and support materials that you can use to help smooth the transition.
Online Learning Tools Within Your Gale Resources for Academic Libraries
Duration: 30 Minutes
As your library quickly makes the move from in-person interactions to online support for your students, faculty, and staff, your Gale resources are here to help! This recorded webinar offers quick tips on common Gale tools and support materials that you can use to help smooth the transition.
Online Learning Tools Within Your Gale Resources for Public Libraries
Duration: 30 Minutes
As your library quickly makes the move from in-person interactions to online support for your patrons, your Gale resources are here to help! Join this webinar for quick tips on common Gale tools and support materials that you can use to help smooth the transition.
Online Learning Tools Within your Gale Resources for K12 Schools
Duration: 30 Minutes
As your school quickly makes the move from in-person courses to online learning, your Gale resources are here to help! Join this webinar for quick tips on common Gale tools within and support materials that you can use to help smooth the transition. This session will be recorded for those who cannot attend.
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.
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.
Put Gale Resources to Work in Google Classroom
Duration: 30 Minutes
Gale’s Google integration allows you to link students directly from Google Classroom into premium Gale materials for online learning. In this recorded webinar, learn how to easily integrate digital content from your Gale resources directly into Google Classroom for assignments, reading, and more. We also dig into other tools to support online learning.
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.
Resume Building Support for Job Seekers
Duration: 30 Minutes
Explore the user-friendly resume tool in Gale Presents: Peterson’s Career Prep, Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep, and Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test Prep. In this workforce support webinar, we'll walk through the step-by-step process of building a resume, view available resume templates, and learn how to share a completed resume.
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.
Smithsonian Primary Sources in U.S. History Webinar
Duration: 30 Minutes
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 Gale’s 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.
Sneak Peek of Gale In Context: Elementary (Kids InfoBits) Enhancements
Duration: 30 Minutes
On May 29th, Kids InfoBits will become Gale In Context: Elementary, and will receive enhancements designed to increase access to library resources and have a greater impact on elementary student success. In this webinar, we'll offer a sneak peek at these upcoming changes.
Sneak Peek of Gale Enhancements
Duration: 30 Minutes
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.
Strengthen Literary Studies with For Students on Gale eBooks
Duration: 30 Minutes
Entries within the For Students literature series on Gale eBooks provide high school and college learners plot summaries, theme discussions, historical context, and more for some of the most studied novels, short stories, poems, and dramas. In this session we will explore the content and discover tools available to integrate these valuable eBooks into online and in-class discussions, lessons, and projects.
Stretch Your Gale Resource Skills
Duration: 45 Minutes
Feeling comfortable with your Gale resources but want to stretch your skills 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, join this webinar for tips and tricks to help your users zero in on what they’re really after!
Support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Education with Gale Literature Resources
Duration: 30 Minutes
In this webinar recording, we explore how Gale’s Literature resources can help support your anti-racism and inclusion programming, curriculum, and other efforts to facilitate meaningful conversations about race, diversity, and inclusion.
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.
Support Instruction with Gale Literature Criticism
Duration: 30 Minutes
Gale Literature Criticism brings you award-winning analysis to support the study of literature. In this webinar, we shared how it supports literary studies, and extend the content into courses like History, Cultural Studies, Sociology, etc. Tune in to learn how to navigate your Gale Literature Criticism volumes and integrate the content into learning management systems, LibGuides, and more!
Support Mental Health with Gale OneFile
Duration: 30 Minutes
Social distancing, pandemic-related closures, and uncertainty are enough to stress anyone out, but your Gale OneFile periodical resources are here to help! Join this session to learn how to support yourself and your users’ wellness and mental health with quality content to teach coping techniques, and tools to encourage engagement and connection. (31:21)
Support Summer Reading with Gale In Context Resources
Duration: 30 Minutes
The 2021 summer reading theme, Tails and Tales, offers a wealth of ideas for inspiring reading with your Gale In Context resources! In this webinar recording, we explore finding unique content to support this year’s theme and other reader interests. As you prepare your programs, learn how your Gale In Context resources can trigger ideas, provide additional routes to reading, and how to share content with your summer readers.
Support Upskilling with Gale Courses and Gale Presents: Udemy
Duration: 30 Minutes
Changing work environments, job opportunities, and personal schedules make this the perfect time to promote your library’s online learning resources to patrons. Gale Presents: Udemy provides over 4,000 on-demand video courses in 75 categories, and Gale Courses offers over 360 instructor-led, six week long online classes across an array of professional development and personal enrichment topics. In this recording, we’ll cover the basics of available courses, lesson structure, and enrollment processes for each online learning tool and discuss opportunities to reach learners within your community!
Support Virtual Book Clubs with Gale Literature Resource Center
Duration: 30 Minutes
Gale Literature Resource Center provides detailed author biographies, in-depth critical analysis, work overviews, author interviews and other sources that can be invaluable to interested book clubs even at a distance. In this webinar, we found engaging content and explored techniques to share it with readers and spark virtual discussions.
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.