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| By Gale Staff | For more than 20 years, Gale has pioneered the application of powerful optical character recognition (OCR) technology to create some of the world’s largest and most widely researched digital archives. With OCR, you can quickly turn a printed text into a searchable document. Read the Q&A below with Gale senior … Read more
| By Gale Staff | Gale In Context: For Educators Now Includes Customizable Assessments Gale In Context: For Educators provides teachers with the resources necessary to personalize instruction and help students succeed. With the recent addition of assessments for every lesson plan within Gale In Context: For Educators, we’ve made it easier for teachers to … Read more
| By Elizabeth Mohn | Middle school students are curious, eager learners who are constantly looking for connections between lessons and their own lives. Asking questions to engage students’ natural curiosity is one way for teachers to help them make meaningful connections and spark a desire to find answers for themselves. Gale In Context: Middle … Read more
| By Gale Staff | In April 2023, we will be launching a new platform that can be used to access British Literary Manuscripts. The platform will be available in addition to the current platform for several more months, until there’s a hard cutover this June, after which only the new platform will be available. … Read more
| By Rey Yuan, Gale Ambassador at Rice University | What comes to your mind when you hear “The Cold War”? The nuclear missile crisis, the “Red Scare,” or perhaps the Iron Curtain speech? As a history major, I have long been intrigued by the incredible complexities of Cold War historiography. In particular, I have … Read more
| By Chilton Staff | According to the U.S. Census Bureau, about 22 percent of households have at least one member who speaks a language other than English at home1. With the ChiltonLibrary on-page ReadSpeaker accessibility tool, users can easily translate service manual text into more than 20 languages. In addition, the text-to-speech feature reads the … Read more
| By K. Lee Lerner, M.Ed. | Educators and librarians are now on the front lines of the generative artificial intelligence (AI) revolution. Advances in AI were patchy since the concept was first advanced in 1956 by research scientists who organized what was termed the Dartmouth Conference to discuss the creation of machines that could … Read more
| By Lucy Dow, Associate Acquisitions Editor at Gale, part of Cengage Group | Among perhaps the lesser-known contributions of women in the early twentieth century was their critical role in advancing the labor movement in North America, fighting for issues such as wage equality, employee benefits, and workplace safety. These concerns resonate in our … Read more
| By J. Robert Parks | In light of the last three years, the 2003 SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) epidemic may strike many as almost quaint. It led to barely 8,000 known cases and was responsible for just 774 deaths worldwide. At the time, however, it was seen as a potentially devastating new illness … Read more
| By Kris Krapp | From abolitionists and authors to entertainers and world leaders, there are countless women worth celebrating during Women’s History Month. Need inspiration for women to highlight in your school or library? Explore ideas to help students learn about women’s history using Gale In Context resources. Start Women’s History Month with Gale’s … Read more