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Gale Receives Platinum in 2025 Fashionable Library Awards from LibraryWorks for the Fourth Consecutive Yr


FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. – Gale, a part of Cengage Group, is happy to announce that it has obtained 4 platinum awards in LibraryWorks’ eleventh annual Fashionable Library Awards (MLAs) for its grownup studying and youth massive print assets. The MLAs have been created to acknowledge the highest services within the library business in a very unbiased format. That is the fourth consecutive 12 months Gale has been acknowledged by the MLAs for product excellence.

“Being acknowledged for the fourth 12 months working is a testomony to Gale’s unwavering dedication to modern studying assets,” mentioned Paul Gazzolo, senior vice chairman and basic supervisor at Gale. “Buyer motivation is on the coronary heart of every thing we do to supply the perfect accessible studying and studying experiences for learners of all ages. This recognition is extra validation that our merchandise proceed to interrupt limitations and attain new heights in training, and we’re thrilled to obtain such an honor.”

Services have been submitted to LibraryWorks within the fall of 2024 and despatched to greater than 90,000 librarians at public, Okay-12, tutorial and particular libraries. Solely clients skilled with these merchandise/providers of their amenities have been permitted to guage them, leading to a very unbiased rating. 

Every decide scored the merchandise on a numeric foundation from 1-10, primarily based on a sequence of questions concerning performance, worth, customer support expertise and total satisfaction.

Gale’s 2025 MLA platinum award winners embody:

  • Gale Presents: Peterson’s Check and Profession Prep (platinum award): gives a complete set of instruments to help people on their academic {and professional} journeys. Whether or not for highschool college students getting ready for standardized assessments, working adults looking for profession modifications, or these pursuing additional training, the platform supplies assets for fulfillment.

“That is the perfect database relating to school and profession preparation for teenagers that we use at our library! It has so many assets and the patrons like it!” –MLA decide

  • Gale Presents: Excel Grownup Excessive Faculty (platinum award): A 21.5-credit, self-paced on-line highschool completion program that permits public libraries to supply accredited highschool diplomas to adults who want to put together for entry into the workforce, additional their careers, or attend faculty.

“Our patrons have overcome important challenges to realize their objective of incomes a highschool diploma by way of the Gale Presents: Excel Grownup Excessive Faculty. I can’t emphasize sufficient simply how impactful this program is and the way it improves the lives of our graduates. Gale has helped our library system additional our mission to supply providers which have a very constructive impression on our group.” –MLA decide

  • Thorndike Press – Youth Giant Print (platinum award): A viable studying intervention software, comparable in measurement as normal print with the identical cowl artwork. These books have been confirmed to enhance decoding, enhance comprehension, and scale back nervousness in creating, below-grade-level, and rising bilingual readers.

“Thorndike Giant Print books for youth have been instrumental in serving to me attain college students who’re scuffling with studying, college students who don’t get pleasure from studying and college students who haven’t any points with studying! These books are for ALL my college students, and since they’re so accessible, ALL college students can get pleasure from them and reap the advantages. I couldn’t extremely advocate them sufficient.” –MLA decide

  • Gale Presents: Udemy (platinum award): Public libraries can join patrons to just about 30,000 on-demand video programs for upskilling or reskilling in enterprise, expertise, and private improvement. 1000’s of programs are taught by native audio system in 14 totally different languages, serving to libraries attain their numerous communities.

“(Our) Public Library is proud to supply Udemy Enterprise as a priceless useful resource for our group. It supplies entry to a variety {of professional} improvement programs. It helps equip our patrons with academic instruments in order that they can achieve success of their profession and past.” –MLA decide

Jenny Newman, writer and MLA program supervisor famous, “It’s hardly a shock that Gale continues to attain excessive. The sturdy partnerships they’ve established with libraries are what differentiate and drive their business management. The standard and innovation of their grownup studying and youth massive print assets are really impacting and altering the lives of all learners, preserving the corporate on the forefront of the market.”

About Cengage Group and Gale

Cengage Group, an training expertise firm serving thousands and thousands of learners in 165 international locations, advances the way in which college students study by way of high quality, digital experiences. The corporate at the moment serves the Okay-12, increased training, skilled, library, English language educating and workforce coaching markets worldwide. Gale, a part of Cengage Group, supplies libraries with authentic and curated content material, in addition to the trendy analysis instruments and expertise which can be essential in connecting libraries to studying, and learners to libraries. For greater than 65 years, Gale has partnered with libraries around the globe to empower the invention of data and insights – the place, when and the way individuals want it. Gale has 500 workers globally with its primary operations in Farmington Hills, Michigan. For extra data, please go to  www.gale.com.

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About LibraryWorks

LibraryWorks helps directors to make knowledgeable choices about library expertise, automation and software program, assortment improvement and administration, amenities and furnishings, staffing, buying, and different areas that drive efficient strategic planning and day-to-day operations. Our household of assets can allow you to establish finest practices, monitor developments, consider new services, apply for grants and funding, submit or discover a job, and even get pleasure from some library humor. https://www.libraryworks.com/

In regards to the Fashionable Library Awards program The Fashionable Library Awards (MLAs) is a evaluate program designed to acknowledge elite services available in the market which can assist library administration personnel improve the quality-of-experience for the library consumer and enhance the efficiency of their library techniques. https://www.modernlibraryawards.com/

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