[Wactclc-alma] More info about the WSL-brokered Gale package

[Thomas, Kirsti]

Hi folks,

I recently had an email exchange with Hilary Fox at Gale and got some new information you'll probably want to know about:

1)      The permanent support site for the WA State Gale package is https://support.gale.com/wsl/

2)      The  https://www.galepages.com/wa2021 site is a temporary site put together for the contract proposal and will be retired this month (September 2021).

3)      There are more products included in the Gale package than were listed in the "All Resources" list on the https://www.galepages.com/wa2021 site.

      In a nutshell, Gale decided not to show any of the subject-specific Gale OneFile products in the "All Resources" list because there are so many of them. (I have *thoughts* about using the phrase "All Resources" to refer to what's really an incomplete list of resources.)

      To see all the products available to your institution as part of the statewide package, go to the permanent support site and select your institution. This will take you to a list of available products that you can download as an Excel spreadsheet.

      You may also discover (like I did), that not all of the products listed as being available to your institution on the permanent support web site are listed on the invoice you received. For example, we have 38 Gale Onefile products that show up on the list of available products on the Gale support website, but only 2 Gale Onefile products were listed on the invoice we got from Gale.

      This probably means you have a bunch more electronic collections to activate in Alma. If you use Alma acquisitions, you may also need to create new Technical POLs for these electronic collections. Whee.

4)      The Gale invoice has a line item called Gale eBook WA State Library Bundle 1 and a line item called Gale eBook WA State Library Bundle 2 K5. Hilary says "Bundle 1 = 62 Gale Titles - General Reference and DEI/SEL titles. Bundle 2 = 26 K-5 Titles." I've attached an Excel spreadsheet Hilary sent with the titles in Bundle 1 (tab 1) and Bundle 2 (tab 2) so you can check that against any other spreadsheets that are floating around. This list of titles is *not* available on the permanent support website (that I could find).

5)      Hilary confirms that whenever you see Gale eBooks listed as an available product on either the temporary or permanent support websites, that only includes:

a)      a custom collection of reference titles selected by the Washington State Library (part of Bundle 1),
b)      a preselected collection of DEI/SEL titles (part of Bundle 1),
c)      a preselected collection of K-5 titles (Bundle 2).

      The statewide package doesn't give us access to the entire Gale catalog.

It will be ok!

Kirsti S. Thomas
Library Technical Services Manager
Seattle Colleges
kirsti.thomas at seattlecolleges.edu<mailto:kirsti.thomas at seattlecolleges.edu>




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