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BlueCareer and FinancialFit Staff Training

The Digital Resources Committee will be presenting an online training on September 23, 2025 at 2pm for BlueCareer and FinancialFit.

Blue Career  

BlueCareer provides information on more than 100 skilled trades, connects patrons with hundreds of trade schools across the United States and Canada, and provides training resources for those seeking to build their trade knowledge and experience.  

Financial Fit 

FinancialFit offers patrons short, easy-to-understand lessons, videos, and interactive tools to help develop and support basic financial literacy. Print material that provides similar information is consistently popular with our users, and we’re excited to be able to offer this digital resource as well!  

Join us in September to learn more about these resources. If you cannot join us on the 23rd, the session will be recorded and posted on the Backstage site afterwards.

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~Hilary Lewis, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

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Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints

With school starting back soon and elections happening in a few months, now is a good time for everyone to be aware of Opposing Viewpoints from Gale in Context.

Opposing Viewpoints provides credible information about today’s hotly debated topics.

Explore current issues using the Issues of Interest on the main banner.

Or Browse Issues:

Once you have chosen a topic, Opposing Viewpoints provides an overview of the topic along with links to explore the topic and viewpoints in more depth:

Tracy – Monroeville Public Library

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Gale World History In Context
Gale Biography In Context
Gale U.S. History In Context

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!

Have a Great Gale related school year!

~Adrianne, Northland Public Library

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Gale LegalForms

Have you ever had a patron inquire about legal forms? Well, there’s a database for that! Gale LegalForms connects patrons to the Pennsylvania Legal Form Library and offers access to a wide variety of templates.

front page of Pennsylvania Legal form library

Patrons can browse by category or search for a specific form needed, and all forms are easily available and specific to Pennsylvania. For most topics, there are also multiple forms to choose from, allowing patrons to find the one that best suits their needs. The documents come in MS Word format, allowing patrons to easily edit them. Best of all, there are no fees!

Erin Weaver, Bridgeville Public Library

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