With the cost of higher education growing each year, the role of libraries is becoming more important than ever. Academic libraries can help reduce the cost of classes by working with faculty to select library-owned resources that either supplement or replace course materials. Download the infographic to learn what institutions like yours are doing to support … Read more
| By Traci Cothran | On Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. day this past week, I was privileged to hear Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Jr. speak at a church in downtown Detroit about the civil rights era and his last days working with MLK. Lafayette is a long-term member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee … Read more
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| Originally posted on the Gale Review Blog by Clematis Delany| Setting out boldly from France to Scotland with a loyal band of followers, the Pretender raises the Stuart standard upon arrival and the Highland clans rise in support. Edinburgh is attacked, declarations are made, battles are fought against Hanoverian forces – and French support fails … Read more
In the past year, the American Civil Liberties Union has made headlines again and again, challenging many of the policies of the Trump Administration. While the ACLU has always challenged policies that it deemed unconstitutional, the organization’s relationship with the presidency has not always been as fraught with conflict. Several letters contained in a folder … Read more
| By Maureen McClarnon | Indulge me, for a moment, with my own story about the value of metadata, from way before I worked for Cengage Learning or knew about indexing. This is before I knew what “tagging” meant, or had ever even thought I might go to library school one day. Metadata can do many … Read more
| By Tanisha Howard-Hall | Every year about this time, we learn about influential African Americans that have made their mark on history. Since elementary school, I have learned about prominent figures such as Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, George Washington Carver, and Marcus Garvey numerous of times. Although they’ve have made huge impacts … Read more
| By Aimme Keener | Gale’s credo starts with the statement “We believe in the power and joy of learning,” and the technology team truly embraces this. Once a month, our team stops all of its day-to-day work on the floor and participates in a hackathon. Hackathons aren’t new. They have become mainstream in the … Read more
Discover how the past and present have intersected to impact the evolution of humanity by exploring Posthumanism: The Future of Homo Sapiens, the latest addition to Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks. Available as a Gale eBook on GVRL, this volume helps readers examine the shifting boundaries of the human condition as well as acquire an analytical framework … Read more
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