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Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month

| By Carol Brennan | The month of April is designated Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month, a time of sober reflection on the large-scale human rights catastrophes that remain a painfully vivid reminder of the barbaric abuses of political power that have been committed in the modern era. Gale In Context: Biography includes hundreds of … Read more

Why You Should Consider the Timing Belt When Buying a High-Mileage Vehicle

| By Christine Sheeky | If you have been shopping for a used car with high mileage, over 60,000 miles or so, there is a very important, often overlooked item to take into consideration. Maybe you have found a suitable car in your price range. One of the next steps to take is to research … Read more

April Is a Great Month to Highlight Second Chances. Here’s Why.

| By Gale Staff | Building a new life after serving a jail or prison sentence can be viewed as an insurmountable challenge. Ensuring returning citizens have access to programs and services is vital to their success. As noted in ALA Policy Perspectives—Libraries & Reentry: The Importance of Public Spaces, Technologies, and Community to Formerly … Read more

Keep Kids and Teens Reading All Year Long

| By Gale Staff | Thorndike Press publishes a curated collection of large print books for juvenile and young adult readers. Luckily, local public library summer programs can help keep kids’ brains engaged. Summer reading programs create a fun, encouraging, low-stress environment for young learners to practice their reading skills or simply dive into an … Read more

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Improvement: Enabling Deeper Historical Research through Innovation

| 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

Health-Care Shortages Reach Crisis Levels

| By Melinda G. Oberleitner, DNS, RN, FAAN | Health care in the United States continues to grapple with shortages of nurses, physicians, and other health-care professionals. As of early 2023, the need is acute for registered nurses (RNs) and home health-care aides. Other professions experiencing or predicted to experience shortages include nurse practitioners (NPs), … Read more

Make Your Community Stronger During Second Chance Month

| By Gale Staff | When we plan for special days in April, most of us think of Easter, Earth Day, or maybe even April Fool’s Day. But April is also Second Chance Month, a time when all of us are encouraged to consider ways we can better support formerly incarcerated people. According to last … Read more

ChiltonLibrary Translation Tool for English Language Learners

| 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