Month: January 2016

New Titles Added to the InfoTrac Collections in December 2015

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 producttitle lists.

Academic OneFile

  • Accounting, Economics and Law – A Convivium（Walter de Gruyter GmbH）2194-6051Peer-reviewed
  • Air Quality(American Bar Association)
  • 美国戏剧杂志(The Strong) 1938-0399Peer-reviewed
  • Appellate Practice(American Bar Association) 1937-2965
  • cankiri karatekin大学iktisadi ve idari bilimler fakultesi dergisi（cankiri karatekin大学）Peer-reviewed

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A Profile in Learning: Education Changes Lives… Here’s Proof

阿曼达Catalfamo is 3阿曼达4岁，住在萨克拉曼多。她是萨克拉曼多国王队的粉丝，流利的德语和西班牙语。她弹吉他并且知道手语。

Raised in Canandaigua, New York, she is the youngest of three. Both of her siblings are college graduates. However, Amanda dropped out of high school due to a stubborn streak. As a freshman, she struggled academically and continued to fall further behind each year and was told she needed to attend summer school to make up her failed classes. Feeling that she had no place to turn for help, she left school during her junior year. “I already had a job and I felt like making money was more important than going to school,” said Amanda.

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对你很冷吗？

By Mary Kelly and Holly Hibner
Posted on January 11, 2016

冬天是我最喜欢做读者咨询的季节之一。是的，你没看错。恶劣的天气，尤其是雪和冰，非常适合读者咨询。天气恶劣时，我可以出售任何书或视频。天气是我对破冰船的首选主题。至少这使对话开始了，可以将图书馆员带入顾客的信息需求。对于中西部北部的我们中的那些人，我们与顾客分享了长期，灰色冬天的痛苦经历，以及可能带来的所有问题。即使您喜欢冬天，到2月，事情看起来也很难过。我居住的冬天有时会延伸到五月。这不是寒冷的温度； it is the seemingly endless days of dark and grey. By late January, most of my customers coming into the library look like they are on a casting call forThe行尸走肉，痛苦爱陪伴。

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Get Started Gathering Ideas for Black History Month Lesson Plans

发表于2015年1月8日

There’s an abundance of historical riches out there, but sometimes you have to know where to look to find the pot of educational gold. During Black History Month, get high school and undergraduate students to delve a bit deeper and uncover these influential and amazing people who changed lives and generations. Get the facts from Gale’sIn Context数据库产品将其与课程主题相关联，然后跟进其他建议进一步吸引学生的多媒体。

Civil Rights Movement, US Government, Graphic Novels = John R. Lewis. This Georgia congressman, serving for 29 years, leads a fascinating life. Son of a sharecropper, Lewis became one of the six leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, served as SNCC chairman, and was one of the original Freedom Riders — all before he was thirty years old. There’s SO much more to discover about this icon, including his publication of two student-friendly graphic novels covering the 1965 Selma-Montgomery March, entitled行进:Book One和Book Two.

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主要来源报纸的产品更新

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The annual update for several primary source newspaper archives are now available: The Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2012 The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2010 The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, 1902-2011 Adding tens of thousands of new pages, new, more contemporary results will begin to show immediately in your searches. The additional materials are now available within each archive, …Read more

In Response to the Recent American Libraries article on Digital Humanities

金宝搏彩票盖尔（Gale）最近与《美国图书馆》（American Libraries Magazine）合作，共同制作了一项关于数字人文科学的图书馆员和教师的调查，该调查被美国图书馆1月/2月发行（此处）涵盖。作为我们与美国图书馆合同的一部分，盖尔没有对由此产生的报道进行编辑控制，包括杂志与作家之间的任何交金宝搏彩票流……Read more

Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library: Editor’s highlights

by Ellie Hawkes

One of the best things about being Product Editor on theEarly Arabic Printed Booksproject is being exposed to works that I have never encountered before. Having worked on rare book digitization projects many times in the past, it’s a real treat to

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与用户见面

Posted December 31, 2015

By Lemma Shomali, Senior Product Manager, Databases, Gale

现在的学生数字原生代和无可争议的power users of Google. Most are never far from their mobile devices, and they use them to look up everything from movie listings to music lyrics. But they also use them for completing homework and doing research. The key to connecting young researchers to trustworthy, relevant content is ensuring that it appears in their workflow. Google is a comfortable, highly used pathway in most students’ study routine. Gale is a Google for Education Partner, which means users can sign in to their library’s Gale content with their Google account credentials and share, save, and download articles to Google Drive, and Docs.

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