1. Critique That! GALE Literature Resource Center Literary Reference Center Powered by EBSCOhost Created by Renee Marsala Media Specialist, Wheeler High School 2008

2. GALE Literature Resource Center and Literary Reference Center are two comprehensive databases that provide information on authors, their works, and literary topics.

3. GALE Literature Reference Center

4. Literary Reference Center

5. In these two databases you will find: ► Literary criticisms ► Biographies ► Plot summaries ► Poems ► Short stories ► Reference books ► Periodicals ► Images ► Reviews ► Interviews

6. Exclusive to Literature Resource Center: ► Plays ► Links to websites

7. Both databases have the capability to create a list of people who meet certain criteria such as: ► Gender ► Nationality ► Ethnicity ► Occupation ► Literary Movement ► Genre ► Place of birth/death ► Date of birth/death ► Century

8. Example: (Literature Resource Center)

9. Results:

10. Literature Resource Center also has a “Works Search”

11. While Literature Reference Center has a “Browse Works”

12. Both databases sort results in tabs Literature Resource Center Literary Reference Center

13. Both databases provide a subject list which can be used to narrow results

14. Literature Resource Center has a Tools box which enables the user to: ► Print a clean copy ► Email the document ► Download the document ► Generate a citation in MLA or APA ► Export a citation ► Translate the document into eight different languages

15. Literary Reference Center enables the user to print a clean copy, email the document to themselves, or download the document.

16. If you would like to use either one of the databases off campus ask your friendly librarian for the password

17. Activities: ► 1. Find the full text of a poem by Edgar Allen Poe ► 2. Find a literary criticism of the poem ► 3. Find a biography of Edgar Allen Poe ► 4. Find an image of Edgar Allen Poe

18. Could you find all of this information in both databases or only one? Which database was easier to use? Were there advantages or disadvantages to using one over the other?