It’s Teacher Appreciation Week – Distance Learning Edition

| By Traci Cothran | “It might be corny to say we act like it’s Teacher Appreciation Week EVERY week here at Gale, but I’m saying it anyway: WE LOVE TEACHERS, LIBRARIANS, AND ALL EDUCATORS!”  I wrote that line last year, and this sentiment seems more poignant than ever, as educators have had to quickly … Read more

Open Access to Support Mental Health During the Pandemic

| By Brigham Narins, Sr. Content Developer, Gale | Mental health is health. Even though we tend to think of health somatically, and ill health as aches and pains and maladies of the body, the term has to include the mind and our psychological experience, for the two aspects of human life are intimately connected. … Read more

Disability Experiences Is an “Impressive, Beautiful Treasure Trove”

| By Gale Staff | Disability Experiences: Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Other Personal Narratives features 200 narrative works that shed light on the lives of people with disabilities. The two volumes examine literary work from over 170 authors, one-third of whom are not from the United States. Recently, Claudia Gillberg, an affiliate researcher at Jönköping University, … Read more

School Library Journal Webinar, Level Up: Prep Your Literacy Toolkit

What’s the most powerful literacy tool on your shelf? Libraries across the country are discovering that large print can effectively support striving readers, English as a second language (ESL) and English language learner (ELL) students, and children with special learning needs. Large print isn’t just a bigger font size. Compared to standard print format, large … Read more

Spark the Power of Connection

| Andrea Drouillard, Inside Sales Director, K‒12 and Public Libraries (Author) & Nicole Albrecht, Gale eBooks Specialist, K‒12 (Coauthor) | Spark Change: Making Your Mark in a Digital World examines the possibilities available when students are given the opportunity to amplify their learning online. Recently, I had the privilege to Zoom chat with coauthors Cynthia … Read more

Using Your Inner Compass

| By Heather Hayes | Having been thrust into this unchartered territory, we can feel like a broken compass, where the directional needle spins aimlessly. No matter how hard we try to navigate or aim the compass, the arrow doesn’t steer us toward our desired path. We become lost, anxious, and afraid, grasping for much-needed tools to … Read more

Long Days, Leisurely Reads – Ready for Summer?

| By Gale Staff | Raise of hands if you’re ready to shake off winter and giddily run toward summer. Okay, that would be … everybody! We’re ready too with a great selection of large-print titles for beachy binge reads exploring dynamic relationships. A dystopian account of a talented teen athlete, a young family’s escape … Read more