| By Aimme Keener | Gale’s credo starts with the statement “We believe in the power and joy of learning,” and the technology team truly embraces this. Once a month, our team stops all of its day-to-day work on the floor and participates in a hackathon. Hackathons aren’t new. They have become mainstream in the … Read more
| Originally posted on District Administration by Abby Spegman | Students want to spend time in the active, group-learning learning spaces schools are building Steven Yates has a message for would-be school librarians. “If you’re coming to this because you like to read and you want to manage a collection of books, then you showed up about … Read more
Immigration and Migration: In Context, 1st Edition helps readers apply critical thinking to immigration and migration-related topics to fairly assess the issues impacting the world. Topics covered from a global perspective include acculturation, asylum seekers, DACA and DAPA, deportation, hate speech, historical migration patterns, unauthorized immigrants, xenophobia, and more. Take Angel Island, for example. Did … Read more
Before her freshman year of high school, Olivia traveled overseas to visit her grandparents and extended family in their country of origin. Back in the United States, Olivia came home eager to begin a new school year. She was not at all prepared to come home with a horrible case of pertussis, or what’s more … Read more
Gale is committed to helping the communities in which we live by providing resources to a variety of charitable, volunteer, and educational organizations. To encourage and support generosity and community involvement, Gale offers employees one paid Volunteer Day per calendar year. As a new employee of Gale, and with the holidays approaching, I (along with … Read more
#GivingTuesday has become a global day of giving fueled by the power of social media and collaboration. Join tens of thousands of people around the world by giving to a charitable cause you believe in—our libraries! This year, the American Library Association (ALA) and EveryLibrary are matching your donations to make the biggest impact possible. … Read more
| By Matt Long, Gale Software Engineering Manager | Web accessibility is about ensuring equal access to content on the web to people with and without disabilities. At Gale web accessibility matters. And while for a variety of reasons equal access can be challenging in certain situations, there are some simple things developers and designers … Read more
| By Lemma Shomali, Product Director, K-12 | “How are others teaching digital students to use technology as a tool instead of a toy?” “What about effectively collaborate with teachers to support the curriculum?” These are just some of the questions we set out to answer when we decided to host a panel at the AASL … Read more
The titles below have been recently added and can be located in the product using Basic or Advanced Search forms. Titles can be found via Browse Publications within two weeks. For complete coverage information please see the product title lists. Academic OneFile Advances in Agriculture (Hindawi Limited) 2356-654X Peer-reviewed Advances in Chemistry (Hindawi Limited) 2356-6612 … Read more
| By Grace Gallagher, Executive Director, Cameron K. Gallagher Foundation | Recently, I had the pleasure of hosting a Facebook Live event with the remarkable folks over at Gale-Cengage to introduce Cameron’s Collection, a wonderful new eBook collection that provides schools and public libraries with resources and tools to help teens who are battling with depression and … Read more