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New Online Educational Resource for Today's Young Learners Now Available at NAME OF LIBRARY
[NAME OF LIBRARY] offers Kids InfoBits to support students in kindergarten through grade five with research and homework help

City, State, Month, Day, Year – [NAME OF TOWN] residents and their children can now access Kids InfoBits, a free, online educational resource for elementary school-aged children, to aid with homework and research needs. Designed with student and teacher feedback, Kids InfoBits features a modern, visually-engaging and easy-to-navigate interface to helps kids gain confidence with database searching.

“We are excited to offer Kids InfoBits to our young library users,” said [NAME OF LIBRARY DIRECTOR]. “The resource gives them easy and safe access to information on a variety of topics and will help them develop twenty-first century research skills.”

Kids InfoBits, from Gale, a Cengage Company, provides access to reference content, magazines, newspapers, maps, charts, graphs and more than 13,000 searchable images. Included are tools to enable search and discovery, cite, provide text translation in over 20 languages including Arabic, Spanish, French and ReadSpeaker text-to-speech functionality, which plays translated text.

In addition to offering easily searchable content covering the most studied subjects, other features of Kids InfoBits include:

·  Continuously updated content, appropriate for elementary school students.

·  Indexed, searchable content—including books, magazines and news.

·  Fun and important facts with connections to current and past events.

·  More than 1,700 kid-friendly charts and graphs and nearly 600 high-quality educational videos.

·  Filter by content level and streamline search results based on basic, intermediate or advanced learning levels.

·  Popular subject categories covering Animals, Arts, Geography, Health, Literature, People, Social Studies, Technology and more.

Reliable and geared to fit the needs of today's young learners, Kids InfoBits addresses the way kids learn and conduct research – and makes it fun.

The platform also provides seamless user login, after authentication to Gale products, using Google Account and Microsoft Office 365 credentials, plus access to G Suite for Education and Microsoft tools including Drive, Docs, OneNote, and OneDrive.

[NAME OF TOWN] residents can access Kids InfoBits on any device by visiting the library’s website [INSERT LINK].

For questions or more information, please contact [LIST YOUR LIBRARY CONTACT].

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