Can't attend a live session? Register anyway and you will receive a link to the recording. Recorded webinars and video tutorials are also available at the Gale Training site.
Train the Trainer Live: Strategies for Public Library Staff Training on Gale Resources
April 13, 2023, 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM (Pacific)
You’ve built your library’s collection to best serve your patrons, now make sure your staff are experts! Gale is here to help you optimize your training to ensure your staff can direct patrons to the content they need. In this session we will review strategies for building and delivering training utilizing best practices and Gale-created training materials.
Teach Emotional Essential Life Skills Utilizing Gale In Context: Elementary Social Emotional Learning Content
April 20, 2023, 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM (Pacific)
Gale In Context: Elementary provides you and your student with K5 focused content to support essential life skills including communication, perspective-taking, and emotional intelligence. Specially designed topic pages help focus students on specific topics and promote organized research, while more advanced tools make it simple for teachers to surface content for many lesson types. Join this session to learn how you can incorporate Gale In Context: Elementary into your Essential Life Skills or Social Emotional Learning lessons.
See the Gale Support site or Oregon Library Staff Academy for previously recorded webinars for Oregon library staff.
8 Ways to Get More from Your Gale/OSLIS Databases
April 5, 2023, 3:30 - 4:15 PM (Pacific)
Target Audience: Oregon school library staff, classroom teachers, and others who use or promote the Gale databases with Oregon K-12 students and/or educators
Are you comfortable using the Gale databases that are available through OSLIS but want to do more with them? Join us for this session where we'll explore ways these resources can meet the needs of research projects, help build media literacy, reach struggling readers, and more. The session will be led by Stacey Knibloe, Team Lead for Gale Training, and Jen Maurer, School Library Consultant for State Library of Oregon.
EBSCO Academy offers overview sessions on different features of LearningExpress Library, PrepSTEP, and Job & Career Accelerator. See recordings or find an upcoming session and register here.
Learn about the variety of test preparation and skill building resources available in LearningExpress Library. This session will provide an overview of the wide range of resources that can help your patrons develop academic and workplace skills. Whether its support for home-schoolers with tutorials and practice sets, helping to prepare students for high-stakes college or professional exams, or assisting job seekers in creating resumes and career exploration, there is something for everyone in LearningExpress Library!
Session trainer: Jason High, EBSCO Training Specialist
This session will focus on the resources and tools in Job & Career Accelerator that can help job seekers in your community. Topics covered will include exploring career opportunities, building job-hunting skills such as networking and interviewing, creating great resumes and cover letters, and searching job listings.
Session trainer: Jason High, EBSCO Training Specialist
This session will cover strategies for promoting LearningExpress Library among different types of library users. Learn how to set up direct links to specific LearningExpress Library Centers and resources, obtain MARC records for eBooks and other resources for your library catalog, and find marketing and promotion resources. This session will also show examples of what other libraries are doing to promote these resources.
Session trainer: Jason High, EBSCO Training Specialist