National Library Week and Gale

Gale, part of Cengage Learning, is celebrating National Library Week by offering free access to six highly-praised online resources for use by any library during National Library Week. Free access runs through National Library Week, from April 10 to April 24, 2010. Librarians can download the widget to their homepage by visiting www.gale.cengage.com/NLW starting on April 10. Gale is offering access to six resources:

Gale NewsVault – a specially designed online platform that enables cross-searching of Gale’s enormous range of historical newspaper and periodical collections from a single interface

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive, Part I – a historical archive that embraces the scholarly study of slavery in a comprehensive, conceptual and global way

Science in Context: an online learning and research portal that covers everything from earth science and life science, to space, technology, mathematics and science history and biography

GREENR – an electronic resource offering authoritative reference content on the environment, energy, economic development and natural resources

Global Issues in Context – an online learning and research portal that offers global news and perspectives on issues and events of international importance

Powerspeak Languages – a world language learning product that uses the research-driven powerspeaK12 language learning methodology

Originally seen at Sue Polanka's blog: No Shelf Required - Thank you!

Gale's AccessMyLibrary app

This one is for Deborah and Erika, two colleagues who have been showing us the Gale app on their iPhones:



Personally, I think the video is a little long (especially the beginning) and not quite in a student's "voice", but it makes some good points and Gale/Cengage has shorter videos about specific databases which we could easily include in a libguide like this one (scroll down that page).

Support for the new Gale In-context databases!

• Guided tutorials — short videos show you how to conduct searchers, download articles and more
• Live online training — Gale trainers conduct real-time training sessions and answer all your product questions
• Bookmarks, posters, and tent cards — display these in your library and drive users to your web site
• Widgets and product icons — Colorful graphics for your web site that provide instant access to your In Context products

These could be useful for our students and our teachers; links can easily be added to a pathfinder.

Gale Widgets: Connect With Your Students

"Gale’s widgets are simple but powerful tools that generate short HTML code to be placed directly into any page on your Web site." See an example at the top of this page.

I look forward to experimenting with Gale Widgets to add to our New Trier Library Facebook page.

I am uncertain whether these will work directly on our library pathfinders with our new CMS400 web software. I will be sure to investigate that as well. Joyce Valenza is using them on her "wiki" pathfinders.