Lunch and Learn: Utilizing Gale Primary Sources for Research and Teaching

This session will highlight specific features within the Gale Primary Sources platform that center around building primary source literacy. It will cover interdisciplinary connections with content and features to support primary source literacy and investigation. A variety of collections will be explored such as Power to the People: Counterculture, Social Movements, and the Alternative Press, Archives of Sexuality and Gender, Political Extremism and Radicalism, and Environmental History and more.

Attendees will:

• Gain exposure to primary source digital collections that can be helpful to specific departments/disciplines
• Navigate the library’s website to find Gale resources quickly
• Integrate Gale materials directly into courses
• Investigate Learning Centers within Gale Primary Source collections which include course materials that can be downloaded, reused, and modified by instructors and students
• Explore key features and tools built within the Gale platforms that support varying research pursuits

Bring your own laptop if you wish to follow along or explore on your own during the session. Lunch will be provided by Gale. Registration is limited to 25 participants. Please sign up using the registration form.

Sara Tarpley, Director, Academic Engagement & Outreach, at Gale is the presenter.