| By Gale Staff | Public libraries are committed to reflecting the diversity of their patrons via collections, programs, and services. The thousands of public libraries across the nation have the capacity to spark community conversations and actions that further understanding and address local needs. Serving and supporting LGBTQ patrons requires more than creating a … Read more
| With Emily Sementilli, Senior Manager, Customer Success | Do you know about Gale’s extended support? Whether you’re a current customer or plan on being one in the near future, we wanted to give you a little intel on our customer success team. Along with extensive product knowledge, this team is dedicated to working with … Read more
Gale is dedicated to helping you get the most from our partnership. Our customer success team is here to help you create greater awareness of your Gale products. GET STARTED Schedule a consultation and implementation call to establish authentication methods, resource discovery, and usage reporting. Increase your visibility with direct URLs, MARC records, icons, and … Read more
EveryLibrary is a gold-rated, non-profit organization focused on showing off the great things libraries do across the country and getting American’s engaged in supporting libraries. This year marks the company’s 5th anniversary, and they’re asking for your help! In order to reach even more Americans with a pro-library message, EveryLibrary announces the One Million Americans … Read more
Posted on November 4, 2015
By Scott Steward
Welcome back. Last time, I gave you the first tip for organizing your electronic resources: using context. Today, I’d like to help you think like a user.
It doesn’t really matter if your user is a patron, student, teacher, or facility. At the end of the day, they all need to be able to find what they’re looking for, and if they can’t, they’ll go somewhere else. So, let’s make it easier for them.
By Scott Steward
Let’s talk about some best practices for organizing electronic resource pages.
It doesn’t matter if you are an academic, K12, public, or special library; if you boil down what we do to its simplest definition, our primary goal is to connect people to information.
Our users are already using tools like Google and Bing in their everyday lives to find information. E.g. Who makes the best cup of coffee? What is the cheapest flight to Las Vegas? What is the carrying weight of a swallow?
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By Scott Steward
Welcome back to the Gale Technical Solutions blog series!
I thought it would be good to start with some of the basics. Today, I will be discussing Branding.
Now when I say branding, I’m not talking about the Gale brand; I’m talking about your library’s brand within your Gale products. Did you know all Gale products have dedicated space reserved in the interface for your library’s branding? In this reserved area we can display text, an image, or some custom code (Javascript, PHP, HTML, jQuery, etc).
By. Scott Steward
Gale, a part of Cengage Learning understands that each library has its own set of unique needs, and what works for one library may not work for another. We know that in many cases the “one size fits all” approach to implementation is a compromise to what is just good enough. Instead of making you settle for what is just good enough, Gale wants you and your users to have the best possible experience using our products, and sometimes that requires a custom solution.
Read moreGale Technical Solutions: Custom Solutions for Your Library