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Literature Resource Center

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Overview

Literature Resource Center is the world's most current, comprehensive and reliable online literature database, with content that supports interdisciplinary approaches to the humanities, information literacy, and the development of critical thinking skills. Its rich critical, biographical, and contextual content supports literary criticism and interdisciplinary approaches to literature. Researchers at all levels will find the information they need on authors and their works in all genres and disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world.  

Target Audience: Grades 9-12

Content Connections:  English/Language Arts

 

Standards Alignment

Literature Resource Center content supports Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts/Reading: Literature and BCPS English/Language Arts curricula. 

 

Content & Features

 

Up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. 

  • More than 160,000 complete entries from two award-winning series – Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography –for in-depth biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information on authors’ lives and works 
  • Literature criticism, biographies, topic and work overviews, news, primary sources, literary works, images, links to audio and interviews, and reviews
  • Entries on 135,000 authors, from Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Authors New Revisions, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism and other sources.
  • More than 850,000 full-text articles, essays and reviews from 390 journals and magazines.
  • More than 75,000 selected full-text critical essays and reviews from Contemporary Literary Criticism, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, as well as Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism and Children's Literature Review.
  • More than 11,000 overviews of frequently studied works, from sources including Gale's For Students series, Literature and Its Times and Characters in 20th-Century Fiction.
  • More than 30,000 full-text poems, short stories and plays.
  • More than 8,500 interviews.
  • More than 6,000 links to web sites and 4,000 portraits.
  • The ability to identify authors and works that share characteristics.
  • Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature.
  • New and updated material is added continuously. Materials from forthcoming volumes of Gale's literature series are added throughout the year, along with full-text journal articles and web sites. 

 

Learning Supports & Tools

  • Search by Person, Name of Work, or Keywords.  
  • Limit search results by publication date, century, publication title, or content type: biographies, literary criticism, multimedia, primary sources & literature works, reviews and news, topic and work overviews. 
  • Read Speaker text-to-speech technology, available on every page, supports struggling readers, those with auditory learning preference, visually impaired, and English language learners.
  • MP3 Download allows students to listen to and revisit entire articles outside of class/school using thier own technology devices
  • Translation-on-demand and font size adjustment technology support diverse communities and differentiated learning.
  • Students can bookmark, download, share, cite, email, print, or save content to a list for later.
  • Pre-formatted source citations at the bottom of each article. Export citations to NoodleTools.
  • Highlight & take notes; Sign In with Microsoft Office to export articles with highlights/notes to OneDrive 
  • Lexiles/Reading Levels are not currently provided in LRC; however, you can use a Lexile Analyzer to find the Lexile measure.  
  • Tools for Students:  Literary Index | Glossary of Literary Terms | How to Write a Term Paper | Citing Information from Gale Databases
  • Gale's AccessMyLibrary School Edition Mobile App

 

Tutorials & Guides 


  • Using GALE's Literature Resource Center - Basics
 
  • Using GALE's Literature Resource Center - Searching 
  • Using GALE's Literature Resource Center - Documents


 

GALE Tools video tutorials (tools included in all GALE databases):

 

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