On-Site Workshops

Want to turn everyone on your team into a resource guru? Bring a qualified instructor to your library or classroom. Train-the-trainer on-site workshops deliver the advantages of group motivation, hands-on practice, and face-to-face feedback. We can even customize a course for you!

Interested in an on-site workshop? Contact your Gale Representative.

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Business Resources Jobs & Career Resources Health & Wellness Resources Home, Hobbies & Entertainment Resources Homework Help Sessions

Training Sessions for Your Business Resources

Helping Small Business Owners Find Their Customers

In these economic times, it’s very important that local small business know how to reach their customers and find new ones. This workshop will demonstrate how to use your Business Gateway to help small businesses market themselves and find new customers.

Resources:

  • Demographics Now
  • Small Business Resource Center

What you’ll walk away with:

  • A thorough understanding of the content in Demographics Now and Small Business Resource Center
  • Tips and tricks for searching these resources
  • Tools to help small business owners develop a marketing plan

 

Know the Companies You’re Investing In

Do you have patrons who come in everyday and use ValueLine?  Do those patrons know other resources in the library can help them?  Are other patrons interested in doing a little of their own investing instead of relying solely on their 401k?  This workshop will provide you with the skills to support your patrons with their investing needs. 

Resource:

  • Business Insights: Global

What you’ll walk away with:

  • A thorough understanding of the financial content in Business Insights: Global
  • Tips and tricks for searching these resources

 

Small Businesses and Your Library

Reach out to your business community and offer them support like none other!  Learn how to provide successful solutions for small businesses and other professionals through your Business Gateway resources.  We’ll help you develop a program to offer your small business community or add ideas to slot into your current outreach programs.

Resources:

  • Small Business Resource Center
  • Demographics Now

 What you’ll walk away with:

  • A thorough understanding of Small Business Resource Center and Demographics Now
  • Efficient search strategies for Small Business Resource Center and Demographics Now
  • Programming ideas for your small business community

Training Sessions for Your Jobs & Career Resources

Apply Now!

Learn to use the features in Career Transitions that enable patrons to apply for a job. Provide instruction and confidence focusing on the needs of jobseekers by exploring the Tips & Advice sections, application tool, and all of the valuable preparatory tools within Career Transitions.

Resource:

  • Career Transitions

What you’ll walk away with:

  • An understanding of how to use the tools found in Career Transitions
  • An understanding of how to locate job postings and information on respective careers
  • The ability to begin a job search and secure an interview
  • The ability to create an eye-catching resume and cover letter
  • An understanding of the importance of following-up
  • The skills necessary to negotiate with potential employers 

 

Build a Resume that Packs a Punch

Learn to use tools in the Jobs & Career Gateway to build a great resume. Address resume questions by focusing on the needs of the job seeker, and explore resume tools and advice in Career Transitions and Testing & Education Reference Center (TERC), all while gaining savvy in the current job market.

Resource:

  • Career Transitions
  • Testing & Education Reference Center

What you’ll walk away with:

  • The ability to navigate Career Transitions and TERC
  • The ability to evaluate the current job market
  • The ability to create a resume and effectively organize the information
  • The ability to create a more effective cover letter

 

College to Career

In today’s job market, internships are indispensible. Help college students who plan to join the job market by explaining the benefits of your library’s career-focused resources, including the college Tips & Advice sections, practice tests and test books that can be accessed with Testing & Education Reference Center (TERC), and additional valuable preparatory tools in Career Transitions and Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL).

Resource:

  • Testing & Education Reference Center
  • Career Transitions
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library

What you’ll walk away with:

  • An understanding of how to access and navigate Career Transitions, TERC and GVRL
  • An understanding of how to increase employment chances
  • Knowledge of the best places to seek help
  • A better understanding of internships
  • Practice in preparing for interviews
  • An understanding of how to use networking to your advantage

 

Find Your Dream Job

Finding yourself in the transitional place of finding a job or career can be daunting. Take out the intimidation with Career Transitions which enables jobseekers to identify new opportunities based on current skills, occupational knowledge and interests.

Resource:

  • Career Transitions

What you’ll walk away with:

  • An understanding of how to access and navigate Career Transitions
  • An understanding of how to evaluate the current job market
  • The ability to assess interests and experience
  • An understanding of how to search for jobs and match experience to new careers
  • The skills to build resumes and cover letters

 

Speak the Language(s) of Today’s Job Market

Provide ideal assistance by learning to navigate Powerspeak Languages, a self-paced, self-guided language-learning tool, and uncover the most popular languages in today’s workforce. The resource’s “virtual guide” demonstrates the first steps in mastering the language of your choice. At the same time, an in-person facilitator will show how to explore Powerspeak Languages and provide the skills needed to learn a new language. Experience the language-learning power of Powerspeak Languages and increase opportunities in today’s global job market.

Resource:

  • Powerspeak Languages

What you’ll walk away with:

  • An understanding of how to access and navigate Powerspeak Languages
  • A better understanding of the most popular languages in North America
  • Skills to help your patrons see that mastering languages makes them more marketable
  • Skills to help your patrons decide the right language to learn
  • An understanding of how to set up a free account within Powerspeak Languages
  • The ability to develop a language-learning timeline

Training Sessions for Your Health & Wellness Resources

Food Can Be Your Friend!

In today’s world no matter your age, size, shape, religion, political orientation or ethnicity, we have one thing in common. We need food to survive! So what should we eat with all of the options out there!? In this session we will provide the opportunity to understand the food-related content that is available within the resources that the library is providing. We will provide the opportunity to get hands-on with the resources to explore and setup diet plans using Rosen Teen Health & Wellness! Additionally, we will identify useful periodicals and create RSS feeds that will continue to provide attendees with information for years to come!

Resources:

  • Rosen Teen Health & Wellness
  • Health & Wellness Reference Center
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library
  • InfoTrac Collections

What you’ll walk away with:

  • An understanding of how to access and navigate a variety of resources
  • A better understanding of food-related diseases and conditions
  • The opportunity to create a diet plan using Teen Health and Wellness and continue your education on diet and nutrition using RSS feeds in a variety of resources
  • An understanding of how to support all of these resources and how to utilize them to confidently answer difficult questions that are received at the reference desk
  • Library staff members that attend will leave with an understanding of how to conduct these sessions in their own branches as a successful and important community outreach initiative.

 

You May Not Be an MD… But…You’re Still an Expert!

Have you ever received a medical question at the reference desk? Do you sometimes find it difficult to answer these questions with confidence because you’re not a physician?

In today’s world where information is available at our fingertips at all times, 88% of individuals visit an online source for medical information before going to the doctor…additionally, 88% of individuals visit an online source for medical information after going to the doctor! This is because we all have a desire to be informed. You are experts on locating and providing information and in this session we will explore all of the incredible medical information that you have access to and find ways to access this information quickly and provide it effectively!

Have no fear, these patrons are coming to the right place, and you have the information they need…even if you don’t know you do yet!

Resources:

  • Rosen Teen Health & Wellness
  • Health Reference Center Academic
  • Health & Wellness Reference Center
  • InfoTrac Collections
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library

What you’ll walk away with:

  • An understanding of how to access and navigate a variety of resources
  • An understanding of when to use which resource for what
  • An understanding of how to quickly find information to effectively answer some of the most popular and common medical questions
  • An opportunity to ‘Be the Expert’ as we explore these resources based on real patron-questions in a project based learning activity that has a contest component
  • An understanding of how to locate and utilize helpful support tools
  • Confidence…and the ability to more easily and effectively navigate these resources to identify the most useful information for yourselves and your patrons

Training Sessions for Your Home, Hobbies & Entertainment Resources

Supporting Book Clubs in Your Library

Do book clubs regularly use your library for meetings or support? Would you like them to? This workshop is designed to help you start and support book clubs held in your library whether it’s virtually or in person. 

Resource:

  • Books & Authors

What you’ll walk away with:

  • A better understanding of how to use Books & Authors to support book clubs
  • Tips for using Web 2.0 tools to share information and drive discussion in book clubs
  • The ability to promote and blog about your book clubs using Books & Authors

 

Travel, Gardening and Entertaining! Oh, My!

How often do you help patrons with their next vacation? Or put in their garden?  Or plan a dinner party? Probably pretty often! But do you ever use electronic resources? Several Gale resources can support these types of needs. Let’s make sure you and your patrons can take advantage of them! 

Resources:

  • Culinary Arts Collection
  • Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Collection
  • Hospitality, Tourism & Leisure Collection
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library

What you’ll walk away with:

  • A thorough understanding of the content in your Gale InfoTrac resources
  • Tips and tricks for searching these resources
  • Web 2.0 skills to reach out and raise awareness and usage of these resources
  • Programming ideas for your patrons 

Homework Help Sessions

College Planning

This two hour session will look at all of the amazing tools available in Testing & Education Reference Center  (TERC) and how to use those tools with students and parents who are looking to apply to and fund a college or graduate school education. Attendees will have time to create their own accounts and specially design them so that they will be the most help when assisting and demonstrating the resource to patrons. Outreach ideas will also be discussed and practiced including how to write a press release for your community for this resource. 

Resource: 

  • Testing & Education Reference Center  (TERC)

What you’ll walk away with:

  • The ability to help students of all ages and/or their parents research colleges and apply for funding assistance
  • A greater fluency and comfort level with TERC tools
  • The ability to conduct education sessions for TERC and how to  reach out to communities that need  the most help
  • Three key groups to target for outreach with this tool
  • One press release or other document that announces this tool to the community
  • Comfort with conducting Patron Training Sessions

 

Google vs. Gale

This three hour session will teach attendees how to work with students to get them away from just Googling for their homework and get them to use the correct research methods to write their papers and work on research projects. Conducting outreach programs and practice sessions will be discussed.

Resource: 

  • In Context Resources

What you’ll walk away with:

  • The ability to identify key database features and tools to highlight in Patron Training Sessions for Youths
  • A greater fluency and comfort level with database content and search strategies
  • The ability to conduct one training session on the Gale databases for youth groups
  • The knowledge to conduct youth group sessions
  • Online resources and strategies for conducting Community Outreach

 

Scouting with eResources

This three hour workshop will teach librarians and library staff how to conduct training sessions for Boy and Girl Scout troops. Attendees will learn some of the best database features to highlight when working with students. Strategies for reaching out to young learners will also be discussed. Part of the sessions will be spent on practicing presentation skills with peer evaluation.

 Resource:  In Context Resources

What you’ll walk away with:

  • The ability to identify key database features and tools to highlight in patron training sessions for Youth
  • A greater fluency and comfort level with database content and search strategies
  • The ability to identify online resources and strategies for conducting community outreach
  • An understanding of how to conduct Boy and Girl Scout meetings and how to obtain merit badges
  • Comfort with conducting patron training sessions

 

Working with Homeschooling Parents

This three hour session will work with librarians and outreach specialists to train them on the Gale online resources available to help homeschooling parents work with their students. Attendees will gain a greater awareness of the challenges facing homeschooling parents and some of the solutions the Gale resources can provide. Attendees will then learn how to best utilize the databases, and how to explain them to both student and adult learners.  

Resources:

  • Biography In Context
  • Opposing Viewpoints In Context
  • US History In Context
  • World History In Context

What you’ll walk away with:

  • A better use and understanding of the online resources available for homework assignments
  • The ability to map database content to national and state curriculum
  • Skill to conduct college level research and teach students how to write high level research papers
  • The skills to help homeschool parents educate their children on  these resources

 

 

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