Here's the cool thing Tony Shamoun from Gale showed me at the SAMM Vendor Fair. They've got a cool widget that allows you to add a PowerSearch box to your website. Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library added the PowerSearch search box to their home page and saw their usage increase by twenty times. Yes, that’s right… twenty! Simply visit http://access.gale.com/pse, enter your location ID (found at the end of the URL when you access your Gale databases), and voila! – you instantly have the HTML code you need to add to your page to make a search box appear. You can customize the box to fit your website’s color scheme. This will easily draw attention to all your resources and make searching library databases as accessible as Google. If you want to expand PowerSearch to search your catalogue and other vendor databases, you can.
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