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You’ve chosen resources available through the Gale Virtual Reference Library as a way to offer rich, relevant information to students and patrons online. A revamped Web site will do the same for you as our platform grows in the months to come.
In the early 1980s, according to Rough Guide founder Mark Ellingham, “I couldn’t find an interesting job, so I attempted to create a proper job for myself that wasn’t in an office. I’d traveled around Greece quite a lot during my time as a student and it occurred to me that there just wasn’t a guidebook that was aimed at someone like me. So I just tried to write a book for myself, thinking that there might be a few thousand others like me who might buy it.”
Hasbro and the American Library Association are joining forces to promote National Gaming Day, the “largest, simultaneous national video game tournament ever held!” The event, taking place at hundreds of libraries tomorrow, November 14, 2009, is designed to:
In December 2009, Lucent Books will release a new eBook title Hot Topics: Video Games. Published in print in September 2009, this edition to the popular Hot Topics series adds depth to middle and high school student thought on the most current issues of the day. Along with providing discussion questions to aid critical thinking, the 100+ page reference, Video Games, will cover:
Gale Virtual Reference Library hosts other game-related eBook titles from Gale and its partner publishers at all levels of readership including:
Contact your Gale representative for more information or log in at www.gale.com/MyAccount to view eBook pricing details.
Here are the latest titles added to Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Baker & Taylor, Inc., the world’s largest distributor of physical and digital books and entertainment products, and Gale, part of Cengage Learning, are proud to announce their partnership to distribute the highly regarded Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) e-Book collection. Baker & Taylor, the first wholesaler to sell the GVRL platform, will distribute GVRL – including Literature Criticism Online and Gale Directory Library – in the academic and public library markets.
Public and academic libraries can purchase GVRL products from Baker & Taylor’s unique and comprehensive Title Source TM 3 ordering system. Academic and public library customers may also continue to purchase GVRL products from their Gale representative. The new partnership simply expands customers’ options for ordering and allows customers to take advantage of the numerous services Baker & Taylor provides.
With yesterday’s official start of the 2009-10 national basketball season, sports fans can enjoy the rare time of year when sports collide. For the next week or so, it will be nearly impossible to flip a channel without stumbling upon coverage of the World Series, national or college football, hockey or basketball. It seems only appropriate to share information on the history, biography and other sports- and recreation-themed eBook titles Gale and its partners offer to help you provide credible reference on everything from the mainstream to the extreme, and even the obscure (dutch oven cooking, anyone?).
Here are some of the best-selling, new and not-yet-published sports eBooks available through Gale Virtual Reference Library:
- Great Athletes: Baseball – 9781587654923
- Great Athletes: Basketball – 9781587654985
- Great Athletes: Boxing & Soccer – 9781587654947
- Great Athletes: Football – 9781587654916
- Great Athletes: Golf & Tennis – 9781587654930
- Great Athletes: Olympic Sports – 9781587654978
- Great Athletes: Racing & Individual Sports – 9781587654954
Contact your Gale representative for more information or log in at www.gale.com/MyAccount to view eBook pricing details.
Encyclopedia of Modern China
Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of American Literature
World at Risk, 2nd Edition
Contagious Diseases Sourcebook, 2nd EditionHere are the latest titles added to Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Happy Teen Read Week! The Novels for Students eBook collection on Gale Virtual Reference Library is a great way to engage young readers with comprehensive coverage of titles from “Brave New World” and “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” to “The Time Traveler’s Wife.” Young adult readers gain insight and understanding into each novel – its author, plot and characters – to not only support classroom assignments but foster a love of literature.
Create a Novels for Students subcollection to engage young readers in your school or community to support the “Read Beyond Reality @ Your Library” Teen Read Week theme–and to encourage year-round interest in reading.
Download step-by-step guide or watch a 10 minute tutorial video to learn how to create a subcollection.
View all Novels for Students eBooks.
Learn more about Teen Read Week, sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA).
