Databites

One of the exciting changes to the updated Gale Databases is the ability for your patrons to login and set up individual user accounts. Your patrons can save search strategies or search results over the course of a semester (or longer!) and set up alerts or RSS feeds. They can also create folders into which search results can be sorted by topic and accesssed from any location. These are wonderful tools, especially for students who are working on semester-long projects!

Check it out!
Questions? Call or email me at 413-665-9898 Ext 125 or skeech@wmrls.org
Shirley Keech

New Infotrac Password as of July 10!

For libraries that use cookie authentication to access the Gale databases, the password will be changing on July 10 and you will need to re-set the password at each workstation in your library.

If all the computers in your library have a static IP address, you are unaffected by this and do not need to do anything!

You will soon receive a letter that includes the confidential password that you will use to re-authenticate your workstations. Under the terms of the state’s licensing agreement with Gale, this password is for use only by library staff responsible for database access and is not to be shared with other staff or with patrons.

If you have questions, feel free to contact Shirley Keech at skeech@wmrls.org or 413-665-9898, Ext 125.