Kids InfoBits, Gale’s fun, authoritative K-5 resource, has many features to engage young learners. Among our favorites are InfoBits, fun facts available for each category – Animals, Music and Movies, People, and more.
Schools
Bridging the Gap Between High School & College: Part 6
This series of blogs will summarize and highlight important portions of our recent white paper, The New York City DOE/CUNY Library Collaborative: Bridging the Gap Between High School and College, which you can view here.
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Global Issues in Context named “Biggest Hit with Patrons” by Library Journal
We are proud to announce that Global Issues in Context, Gale’s online resource covering the modern world’s most important topics, was recently named “Biggest Hit with Patrons” by Library Journal in their “Best Databases 2014” roundup. The recognition means even more because the winners are nominated by LJ’s readers, many of whom use our products every day. The nominating librarian stated that the product is “wildly popular with students,” and that she is “amazed at the usage statistics generated by my institution.”
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Product Updates: New In Context content for 12/01/14
Gale is continually updating and adding new content to our In Context products, ensuring that they offer timely, authoritative, useful information. The items below were added or updated during the week of December 1, 2014.
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Bridging the Gap Between High School & College: Part 5
This series of blogs will summarize and highlight important portions of our recent white paper, The New York City DOE/CUNY Library Collaborative: Bridging the Gap Between High School and College, which you can view here.
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Bridging the Gap Between High School & College: Part 4
This series of blogs will summarize and highlight important portions of our recent white paper, The New York City DOE/CUNY Library Collaborative: Bridging the Gap Between High School and College, which you can view here.
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Guest Blog: School Librarians: Teachers First, Everything Else Second!
By Kathleen Roy, Library Media Center Director, Cretin-Derham Hall High School, St. Paul, MN
Why are we teachers first? Why not school librarians who do it all? Managers-teachers-procurers-developers-organizers-programmers-etc., etc., etc….
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Feature Focus: Highlights and Notes in Kids InfoBits
At one time or another, almost everyone has broken the rules and written in a textbook. When I was in school, our teachers reviewed our books at the end of the year and we had to pay a fine if they found writing in them; at the end of every school year I would frantically erase the notes and doodles that I had written on the pages of each textbook. Now, with Gale’s Highlights and Notes tool – available in Kids InfoBits, as well as many other Gale products – those days are over for students of all ages.
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Bridging the Gap Between High School & College: Part 3
This series of blogs will summarize and highlight important portions of our recent white paper, The New York City DOE/CUNY Library Collaborative: Bridging the Gap Between High School and College, which you can view here.
Read moreBridging the Gap Between High School & College: Part 3
Product Updates: New In Context content for 11/10/14
Gale is continually updating and adding new content to our In Context products, ensuring that they offer timely, authoritative, useful information. The items below were added or updated during the week of November 10, 2014.
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