Direct users to your Black History Month collection

What we now know as Black History
Month was first represented by a single week when noted historian Dr. Carter G.
Woodson originated the event in 1926. He chose a week in February, the month
that marked the birthdays of the “Great Emancipator” Abraham Lincoln and
abolitionist Frederick Douglass as well as the historical dates when the first
African American joined the U.S. Senate and the
NAACP was founded.

Black History Month marks an
opportunity to focus the attention of students and library patrons on relevant
reference works from your Gale Virtual
Reference Library collection.

Just as Woodson’s original notion has expanded to
fill an entire month, and African-American studies have become an important
area of cultural scholarship, the resources available to students of history
and culture have evolved from a once narrow bibliography to a rich and abundant
library. Scores of these resources are available as eBooks and the best way to
increase usage of these titles in your library is by creating a subcollection
for Black History Month or African American Studies.

You can download a one-sheet that describes how to easily build a
customized library of eBooks then create a link on your library Web site for
Black History Month and beyond. It includes a link to a Black History Month
banner that will distinguish this subcollection from your complete eBook
collection.

This
banner will help you identify your subcollection to users

Download the one sheet here (365K .pdf file) http://www.gale.cengage.com/pdf/free_resources/bhm/BHMSubcollection.pdf

Once you’ve created your subcollection,
you can add a widget that adds a search box
Directions are available here:
http://access.gale.com/widgets/bhm/

Download this widget to create a
search box on your library homepage