New GVRL & eBook Titles

The following titles have been recently add to Gale’s Directory Library and Gale Virtual Reference Library. GDL: Ward’s Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies, 55th ed Novels for Students, Volume 39

New Reference Books in Gale Virtual Reference Library

The Virtual Library reference collection has just received these great resources to the Gale Virtual Reference Library: Animals Atlas of the World’s Strangest Animals (Science) DK Eyewitness Books: Endangered Animals (General Reference) Mammals of the Northern Hemisphere (Science) Mammals of the Southern Hemisphere(Science) Rourke’s World of Science Encyclopedia: Animal Life (Science) College College Financing Information [...]

More Gale Updates

The following have been added to Gale Library Directory GDL: Encyclopedia of Associations: Regional, State and Local, 24th ed. Also, added to Gale Virtual Reference Library Contemporary Black Biography V97

New GVRL Titles

Business Plans Handbook, Vol. 23 Newsmakers 2012 Cumulation Contemporary Black Biography, Vol. 96

Gale Virtual Reference Library Updates

Our new Gale Virtual Reference Library eBook platform is now live. New features include: A completely updated, engaging user interface available in more than 35 languages Improved user-focused navigation and organization Eye catching book covers and interactive online book experience with two-page view and page flipper ReadSpeaker text-to-speech technology in 19 languages Cross-search and browse [...]

New Interface for GVRL

The new interface for the Gale Virtual Reference Library will go up as soon as Gene changes the URL.  If you want to view it now go to http://galesites.com/menu/index.php?loc=lvccld_main. Gale has changed the way the GVRL authenicates remotely.  If you use your cell phone or tablet (not on the library’s wifi) you will see the [...]

New GVRL eBooks

This week these two ebooks where added to the Gale Virtual Reference Library: Contemporary Black Biography, Volume 91 Working Americans Volume XI: Entrepreneurs & Inventors  

Extreme Makeover: GVRL Edition

Coming this fall, the industry’s most comprehensive eReference platform unveils its vivid new face and pumped-up functionality recreating the book experience. With the help of feedback from customers like you, Gale Virtual Reference Library delivers a significant new experience, with enhancements covering the spectrum of content searching, retrieving and sharing. Here’s what you’ll find: A [...]

New eBook Reference Title for Biographies

The following title has been added to Gale Virtual Reference Library – Encyclopedia of World Biography Supplement, Volume 31. A multicultural biographical source that covers notable individuals from every part of the world and from all time periods who have made significant contributions to human culture. For additional biographies see Biography in Context and under [...]

Monday Morning Smile

What other countries celebrate the Fourth of July? Virginia Hopkins Texas A&M University Corpus Christie, TX Three days before July 4th, in 1867, the British North America Act went into effect on July 1, 1867, uniting Upper Canada (now called Ontario), Lower Canada (now Quebec), New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia into a British dominion. Canada [...]

New Gale Reference eBooks

This week  we have added the following titles to the Gale Virtual Reference Library. Alternative Energy – This three-volume set introduces students to issues surrounding both current energy sources and alternative energy options. While there is significant discussion of the non-renewable resources now used to meet the majority of the world’s energy needs (oil, coal [...]

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What type of books does Jane E-y-r-e (patron spelled out) write? Are you familiar with her? Madison Ediger Olathe Public Library Olathe, KS In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Jane moves gradually from primitive and occasionally violent reactions to a more rational and civilized response. Eventually, both Jane and the novel evolve to the point that [...]

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I’m looking for a book about Sucrets. He’s a philosopher. Carlos Fernandez Miami, FL Socrates, whose name literally means “revealing excellence,” was born in Athens around 470 BCE and is considered the father of philosophy. He is known to modern readers only through the written works of other philosophers and historians. In fact, it’s unclear whether [...]

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Where are the science fair project books about dragons? Lorie O’Donnell Jervis Public Library Rome, NY In ancient times, dragons often represented evil, destruction, and death. In some cases, as in Norse myth, dragons represent greed. They are usually portrayed as frightening and destructive monsters. Gods and heroes must slay them in symbolic battles of [...]

New Gale Literature Titles

  Contemporary Literary Criticism Vol 305 Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism Vol 240 Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism Vol 241 Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism Vol 242 Poetry Criticism Vol 116 Poetry Criticism Vol 117 Short Story Criticism Vol 152 Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism Vol 250 Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism Vol 251 Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism Vol 252

New GVRL Titles

Business Plan Handbook Volume 21 Pirates through the Ages

New eReference Books in GVRL

We have update the Gale Virtual Reference Library with updated titles and a selection of new titles to expand our online reference collection.  Over the next couple of weeks, those books which are new, I will be providing an in-depth look at them to give you an idea of their contents. African – Americans African [...]

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Do you have this audio-book in large print? Sounds were recorded for the first time in 1877 on an experimental machine that Thomas Edison hoped would translate telephone calls into telegraph messages. It recorded the calls as indentations in a strip of paper passing under a stylus. Edison noticed that when he passed the indented [...]

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“How old do you have to be to be a teenager?” Karen Clodfelter University City Public Library St, Louis, MO The concept of “the teenager” developed in the United States during the 1940s. Since the 1600s, it had been common to refer to youths as being in their “teens,” but it was only during the [...]

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“Can I sign up for the crackpot program?” (The patron really wanted to sign up for the Crock Pot cooking program.) Cynthia Blietz Alsip-Merrionette Park Library Alsip, IL The Rival Company became a household word in the early 1970s with the introduction of the Rival Crock Pot, a slow cooker that literally changed the way [...]