Thanksgiving Leftover Recipes: From Breakfast to Dinner & Everything In Between

| By Tara Blair | Thanksgiving—a holiday filled with food, family, giving thanks….and, well, more food. As one of the most anticipated meals of the year, Thanksgiving dinner is bound to leave the family with an abundance of leftovers. While the cold turkey sandwich is always a favorite go-to, Gale resources are here to show you … Read more

The Software Professional

| By Matt Long, Gale Software Engineering Manager | When I hear the word professional, I usually think of that scene from that movie when Leonidas shouts to his small army of men asking them what their profession is. I’ve been developing software professionally for almost 20 years, and while it’s a far cry from … Read more

Outstanding Reviews for Digital Scholar Lab

| By Sydney Fairman | Gale’s newly launched Digital Scholar Lab has received two outstanding reviews from American Reference Books Annual and Booklist. Digital Scholar Lab, a cloud-based research environment, allows both students and researchers to apply natural language processing tools to raw text data (OCR) from Gale Primary Sources in a single research platform. Read below … Read more

The 2019 National History Day Competition

| By Traci Cothran | Ever heard of the Minnesota Starvation Experiment? I hadn’t either, until I saw the website of student Ella Hoch Robinson, the National History Day 2018 winner in the Juniors Individual Website category. It is a fact that during WWII, 100 conscientious objectors volunteered and were chosen for this year-long study … Read more

Stan Lee and the Power of Vulnerability

| By Catherine DiMercurio | The internet is flooding with tributes to Marvel Comics publisher Stan Lee. I think it’s safe to say, given his stature as a creator, that Lee was a superhero in his own right. With Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he created the Marvel Universe, though it was Lee who would be … Read more

Booklist Raves Over Gale Primary Sources and GVRL Products

| By Sydney Fairman | Booklist has published rave reviews for two Gale titles released this year: Amateur Newspapers from the American Antiquarian Society and St. James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Culture. Amateur Newspapers from the American Antiquarian Society is an extensive collection of amateur publications that were written, edited, and published primarily by young … Read more

Bring the Movember Movement to Your Library

| By Gale Staff | As the men in your community forgo shaving for the month of November to bring awareness to men’s health issues, your library has the perfect resource to answer questions and shed light on these very serious topics. From authoritative information on prostate cancer to peer-reviewed journal articles on the latest … Read more

New Titles Added to the InfoTrac Collections in October 2018

| By Gale Staff | Academic OneFile ACI Materials Journal (American Concrete Institute) Peer-reviewed ACI Structural Journal (American Concrete Institute) Peer-reviewed AJSP: Reviews & Reports (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, WK Health) Peer-reviewed Akropolis: Journal of Hellenic Studies (Center for Hellenic Studies) Peer-reviewed Bewaehrungshilfe (Forum Verlag Godesberg GmbH) Peer-reviewed Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy (Canadian … Read more

Content Curated to Support Current Issues

| By Andrea Henderson | In a New York Times opinion piece, sociologist Eric Klinenberg explored the critical place the public library plays in the social infrastructure of a society stating: “Libraries are the kinds of places where people with different backgrounds, passions, and interests can take part in a living democratic culture.”1 Gale is committed … Read more