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Children's Core Collection: A Selection Guide (WilsonWeb) Remote access available Full text available NEW!
Formerly Children's Catalog, this selective listing of fiction and nonfiction works, story collections, picture books, magazines, and web resources recommended for readers from preschool through sixth grade. Entries provide complete bibliographic data, price, subject headings, a descriptive annotation, evaluative quotations from a review (when available), and citations to additional reviews.

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) Full text available
Provides an extensive array of information about more than 900,000 children's books, video and audio recordings, film strips, and other children-focused media. Records come with all of the official cataloging data, subject terms, and annotations. In addition, CLCD contains more than 130,000 critical reviews of thousands of children's books, ranging from the earliest baby board books to novels and nonfiction for young adults, and an average of more than 1500 new reviews are added to the database monthly. Includes award information and placement on Best Books lists.

Fiction Core Collection: A Selection Guide (WilsonWeb) Remote access available Full text available NEW!
Designed for collection development, selection, readers' advisory, and general reference, this selective listing delivers information on thousands of works of fiction for adults, either written in or translated into English. Entries provide complete bibliographic data, price, a descriptive annotation, notes about related works, evaluative quotations from a review (when available), and citations to additional reviews.

Graphic Novels Core Collection: A Selection Guide (WilsonWeb) Remote access available Full text available NEW!
For collection development, readers' advisory, curriculum support, and selection and purchasing, this database highlights approximately 2,000 recommended titles with descriptive and evaluative annotations (including review excerpts and awards the title has won), plus cover art. Standards for rating material by age appropriateness are strictly applied, plus all titles are searchable by author, title, subject, genre, and grade level.

Middle and Junior High Core Collection: A Selection Guide (WilsonWeb) Remote access available Full text available NEW!
Formerly Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog, this is a selective listing of thousands of fiction and nonfiction works (including CD-ROMs) for children and adolescents in grades five through nine to help with collection development, curriculum support, selection, readers' advisory, and general reference. Entries provide complete bibliographic data, price, subject headings, a descriptive annotation, evaluative quotations from a review (when available), and citations to other reviews.

Nonbook Materials Core Collection: A Selection Guide (WilsonWeb) Remote access available Full text available NEW!
Selective listing of electronic resources, audiobooks, video recordings, sound recordings, games, simulations, and much more for collection development, readers' advisory, and curriculum support, highlighting resources for schools and public libraries. Searches are possible by document type, author, title, subject, genre, and grade level. Annotations include review excerpts and awards. Cataloging information is provided for all items.

Public Library Core Collection - Nonfiction: A Selection Guide (WilsonWeb) Remote access available Full text available NEW!
Formerly Public Library Catalog, this lists the most highly recommended reference and non-fiction books for adults to aid in collection development, selection, weeding, readers' advisory, and general reference. Entries provide complete bibliographic data, price, subject headings, a descriptive annotation, evaluative quotations from a review (when available), and citations to other reviews as well as information on electronic editions of works where available.

Senior High Core Collection: A Selection Guide (WilsonWeb) Remote access available Full text available NEW!
Formerly Senior High School Library Catalog, this is a selective list of more than ten thousand fiction and nonfiction books, CD-ROMs, and curriculum-related material recommended for young people in grades 9 through 12 to aid in collection development, readers' advisory, and curriculum support. Entries provide complete bibliographic data, price, subject headings, a descriptive annotation, evaluative quotations from a review (when available), and citations to other reviews.


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NOVEL Database NOVEL (New York Online Virtual Electronic Library) is a statewide virtual library provided free to the public by the New York State Library. It is currently a pilot project funded through a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant to the NY State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

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