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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:blue">I sent this out to the Oregon school library community, but I thought this might be useful for the CSD community, too. Please pardon the cross-posting.</span></i><span style="color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Ebooks, ebooks, ebooks. If people aren’t talking about Common Core, they’re talking about ebooks. Well, that and a few other things.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Here’s a friendly reminder that
<b>the Gale databases that you have access to via OSLIS are chock-full of ebooks</b>. Yes siree, Bob. Chock-full. The obvious database is Gale Virtual Reference Library, known as GVRL, which is Gale’s platform for delivering ebooks. As part of the statewide
contract, we have over 30 reference ebooks in GVRL. Here are a few. (Click on the images to link to the table of contents. If prompted for a password, use oslis.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><a href="http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE|9780787677503&v=2.1&u=oslis&it=etoc&p=GVRL&sw=w"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="140" height="185" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CF2F20.05E47170" alt="Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, 2003"></span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">
</span><a href="http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE|9780684315942&v=2.1&u=oslis&it=etoc&p=GVRL&sw=w"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="140" height="188" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CF2F20.0F22EDC0" alt="Ancient Greece and Rome, 1998"></span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">
</span><a href="http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE|9781414448770&v=2.1&u=oslis&it=etoc&p=GVRL&sw=w"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="140" height="155" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CF2F20.837956A0" alt="The Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, 2009"></span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">
</span><a href="http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE|9781414422862&v=2.1&u=oslis&it=etoc&p=GVRL&sw=w"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="140" height="178" id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image004.jpg@01CF2F20.837956A0" alt="UXL Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes, 2008"></span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">
</span><a href="http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE|9781414412658&v=2.1&u=oslis&it=etoc&p=GVRL&sw=w"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="140" height="193" id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image005.jpg@01CF2F20.837956A0" alt="Immigration and Multiculturalism: Essential Primary Sources, 2006"></span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Plus, and only via OSLIS, you have access to 5 additional titles that Oregon public and academic libraries do not.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE|9781438129105&v=2.1&u=oslis&it=etoc&p=GVRL&sw=w"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="140" height="181" id="Picture_x0020_6" src="cid:image006.jpg@01CF2F20.EBA3C030" alt="Environmental Science Experiments, 2010"></span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">
</span><a href="http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE|9781438129112&v=2.1&u=oslis&it=etoc&p=GVRL&sw=w"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="140" height="179" id="Picture_x0020_7" src="cid:image007.jpg@01CF2F21.2B2D2980" alt="Forensic Science Experiments, 2010"></span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">
</span><a href="http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE|9781414444260&v=2.1&u=oslis&it=etoc&p=GVRL&sw=w"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="140" height="178" id="Picture_x0020_8" src="cid:image008.jpg@01CF2F21.2B2D2980" alt="UXL Encyclopedia of Biomes, 2008"></span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">
</span><a href="http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE|9781414418858&v=2.1&u=oslis&it=etoc&p=GVRL&sw=w"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="140" height="178" id="Picture_x0020_9" src="cid:image009.jpg@01CF2F21.2B2D2980" alt="UXL Encyclopedia of Weather and Natural Disasters, 2008"></span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">
</span><a href="http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE|9781414438467&v=2.1&u=oslis&it=etoc&p=GVRL&sw=w"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="140" height="187" id="Picture_x0020_10" src="cid:image010.jpg@01CF2F21.49D2ED20" alt="UXL Encyclopedia of World Mythology, 2009"></span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Besides GVRL, <b>ebook content is generously sprinkled throughout the Gale databases</b>. The ebooks may not look like books, but don’t judge them by their lack of covers. All the content is divided
into articles and comes up in your searches. Want to know which databases have content from which ebooks? Check out the
<b>database title lists</b>. The databases are listed in alphabetical order, and for each there is a spreadsheet that lists all of the periodicals titles and all of the reference books, when there are any of the latter, which is often. For example, Student
Resources in Context has econtent from 140 reference books! A sampling of those titles includes
<i>Exploring Novels</i>, <i>Exploring Poetry</i>, <i>Encyclopedia of Endangered Species</i>,
<i>Gale Encyclopedia of World History: War</i>, <i>Newsmakers</i>, and <i>UXL Science</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"> <a href="http://solutions.cengage.com/Gale/Database-Title-Lists/">
http://solutions.cengage.com/Gale/Database-Title-Lists/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Need a refresher on
<b>how to use</b> <b>the databases</b>? Besides playing around with them on your own, you can view a
<b>short tutorial</b>, sign up for a <b>free webinar</b>, or watch an <b>archived webinar</b>. Or, contact me, and I’ll point you in the right direction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"> <a href="http://solutions.cengage.com/gale-training/on-demand-tutorials/">
http://solutions.cengage.com/gale-training/on-demand-tutorials/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"> <a href="http://solutions.cengage.com/gale-training/webinars/">
http://solutions.cengage.com/gale-training/webinars/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"> <a href="http://solutions.cengage.com/gale-training/webinar/recorded/">
http://solutions.cengage.com/gale-training/webinar/recorded/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">One final thought.
<b>This is not a secret. Spread the word. Share the elove</b>. :-)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Jen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">P.S. There are so many ways to write “ebook.” There’s ebook. eBook. E-book. Etc. I finally settled on ebook. For now.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Jennifer Maurer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">School Library Consultant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Oregon State Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">250 Winter Street NE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Salem, OR 97301<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">503.378.5011<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue"><a href="mailto:jennifer.maurer@state.or.us">jennifer.maurer@state.or.us</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">OSLIS ||
<a href="www.oslis.org">www.oslis.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Learn to research. Research to learn.©</span></b><span style="color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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