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I know the kids would rather not hear this but school days are creeping ever closer… and thus I do want to remind everyone of the great school resources that the county libraries provide for those upcoming school projects. Gale In Context has some great offerings to help with those history projects and papers.
World History and U.S. History are the two history databases to help you ace the new school year. Now for information on historical and famous figures you can trust Biography In Context. Get those grades up with reliable sources from the county libraries Gale In Context databases this year!
Maybe your patrons are wondering about it. Maybe they’ve already transformed into giant chickens themselves! That’s what bird flu does right? I read that somewhere on the internet.
Just kidding! When I go looking for information online, I start with library databases. I love Wikipedia dearly, but sometimes it will lead me astray. Just look at this link! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_Flu.
Luckily for me, POWER Library has provided two new databases that can help with health information and much more: Health and Wellness and Academic OneFile Select, both from our pals at Gale. As with other Gale products, they look almost the same but contain different information aimed at different audiences.
Health and Wellness contains full-text articles from medical publications and reference works, but also from more popular, general media outlets with a focus on health information that is approachable for a general audience. Here are the results for a search for “bird flu” with a publication date limiter of the “past month.”
Notice that it leads with four audio clips from various NPR programs. Health and Wellness is for a general audience looking for reliable information that doesn’t get too deep into medical jargon.
This resource is geared toward students, researchers, and curriculum-based learners. It provides access to full text articles across many disciplines, not just health, as well as also vocational/technical training material for students who are studying the trades. A nice complement to BlueCareer!
But back to the chickens. If I do the same search for “bird flu” with that “past month” time limiter, I get results that may not be appropriate for a lay audience but will definitely help with a college student’s research.
These new resources provide information for a variety of different types of patrons and are now live on the eLibrary website. Check them out!
Do you have a music lover on your holiday list? Are they a music buff that you just cannot keep up with? Never fear AllMusic is here! You can search for artist here to learn more, look at their staff picks, or even look through specifics genres to see more artist your music buff may like – the musical learning is endless.
You can even search through their database of musical information to find that specific holiday song you just cannot remember the title of if it is just eluding you. Find more musical information with AllMusic!
