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April 2008

Gale Announces Four New Titles

Gale recently announced the release of four new titles, all of which take readers on a journey through history around the world and throughout the United States.

Middle school, high school and community college students will find valuable information in all of these titles for homework assignments, classroom discussions and research projects. Public and Special library patrons researching social aspects of U.S. and world history also will find the new Encyclopedias indispensable.

Gale Encyclopedia of World History: Governments provides an overview of national governments throughout history, explaining their structures and histories, key players and events, and how governments influence social change.

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Gale Encyclopedia of World History: War provides an overview of war throughout world history, from ancient times to present, with a special emphasis on its causes and repercussions.

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Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History: Government and Politics provides a concise history of the U.S. government and political scene throughout American history, with particular emphasis on how government and politics influences — and are affected — social change.

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Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History: War provides a look at war throughout American history, with special emphasis on how war influences political, economic and social change in American and global society.

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All four encyclopedias consist of approximately 400 entries, including subject entries and biographies, 300 images, maps, a chronology, a glossary, sources for further study and a general index.

Students Get Their Noses Into Gale’s Contemporary Literary Criticism

Tenth graders at Douglas County High School (DCHS) used Gale’s Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) books to learn how to look up critical reviews about their chosen author.

“These volumes are a critical piece of what they are learning,” said Peggy Cummings, Library Media Specialist at Douglas County High School. “We see the development of the students’ thought process as they use the Contemporary Literary Criticism set for research.”

Cummings wrote a grant that was approved to purchase the Contemporary Literary Criticism volumes. She is currently writing another grant in hopes of purchasing more volumes.

“These volumes are our English Department’s most heavily used print reference resource at DCHS,” said Cummings. “Students read a book by an author that has been critically reviewed, write their own critique of this book, and then compare and contrast their critique to what the ‘professional critics’ present in the CLC’s. It is a wonderful learning experience for our students.”

Using these volumes will become an even greater part of research and learning as a portion of the school’s improvement plan.

“Our focus for our ‘School-wide Improvement Plan’ is on critical thinking,” said Cummings. “We are preparing our students for this by using the Contemporary Literary Criticism and Twentieth Century Literary Criticism research volumes to encourage them to become independent learners and critical thinkers.”

Gale Announces MovieRetriever.com

Gale recently announced the launch of an exciting new open Web product: MovieRetriever.com. MovieRetriever.com combines the unique ratings, reviews and genre categorizations of Gale’s critically acclaimed VideoHound’s Golden Movie Retriever print title with Web 2.0 social tools and user-generated content designed to foster community and engage end-users.

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Gale Celebrates National Library Week with Books & Authors Songwriting Competition

To celebrate National Library Week (April 13-19, 2008), Gale announces a YouTube video contest in which songwriters perform love songs to their favorite book or author. The winning entrant will split a $5,000 Grand Prize with a library of his or her choice. The contest encourages book lovers to literally sing the praises of their favorite books and authors.

The contest comes on the heels of the successful launch of Gale’s new online resource center, Books & Authors. Adapted from Gale's acclaimed What Do I Read Next? print series, Books & Authors is specially designed to complement the browsing habits of today's Web user, integrating easy-to-follow menus that allow consumers to broaden and narrow their searches according to author, title or series, awards and other criteria.

The Books & Authors songwriting competition gives readers a chance to express their love of books in a public forum. Participants may belt out their abiding love for books and/or authors with original lyrics, using original or public domain music. Find complete details at www.gale.com/librareo. Entrants must load their videos to the librareo group on YouTube (www.youtube.com/group/LIBRAREO) before midnight EST on Saturday, May 31, 2008.

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