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WilsonWeb CX Edition — New Enhancements

The next generation of WilsonWeb has been enhanced. Join Ron Miller, Director of Product Management, as he discusses the enhancements, including "text to speech" for full-text articles, expansion of the "My WilsonWeb" parallel account capabilities, and a new social networking component for Current Issues databases.

Saturday: July 11 at 2:00 pm

Sunday: July 12 at 9:30 am and 4:30 pm

Monday: July 13 at 10:30 am and 4:00 pm

Tuesday: July 14 at 11:30 am

Current Issues: Environment

Dan Firrincili, Product Manager, will explain how the new Current Issues: Environment takes the award winning Current Issues: Reference Shelf Plus series into a new focus on a wide range of environmental topics. Its graphic interface will appeal to students and young researchers. Come see why its predecessors were named Library Journal's Best References in 2007 and 2008.

Saturday: July 11 at 10:30 am and 3:30 pm

Sunday: July 12 at 3:00 pm

Monday: July 13 at 2:00 pm

Tuesday: July 14 at 9:30 am

Wilson Art Suite — New Enhancements
Join Gray Young, Director of New Content Management, as he talks about enhancements to the Wilson Art Suite of products — new images and additional search parameters in Cinema Image Gallery; outstanding Library of Congress collections added to Art Museum Image Gallery — African-American Photographs, Japanese Fine Prints —
pre-1915, Lomax Collection and more; and links to online e-journals in Avery Index.

Saturday: July 11 at 9:30 am

Sunday: July 12 at 10:30 am and 3:30 pm

Monday: July 13 at 10:00 am and 4:30 pm

Tuesday: July 14 at 10:30 am

Biographies — New Enhancements
H.W. Wilson has been profiling the history makers and newsmakers since 1940.  Gray Young, Director of New Content Management, will discuss how changes to the update process and expansion of WilsonWeb's ReadSpeaker "text to speech" converter, and language translations to Wilson's biography databases make these products the premier choice for biography research.

Saturday: July 11 at 10:00 am

Sunday: July 12 at 11:00 am and 4:00 pm

Monday: July 13 at 9:30 am

Tuesday: July 14 at 11:00 am

Research and a Retrospective Database
Your faculty and students expect digital access to all material. Wilson's Retrospective Databases are online, easy-to-use, historical research tools for studying business, economics, politics, law, and other fields. Mark Gauthier, Vice President of Wilson Indexing Services, discusses the process of producing the Wilson retrospective databases and how these unique databases complement your collection.

Saturday: July 11 at 2:30 pm

Sunday: July 12 at 10:00 am

Monday: July 13 at 11:00 am

Facts About the Presidents, 8th Edition

Join Ray Barber, Special Consultant, Core Collections, and Dan Firrincili, Product Manager, as they tour the new edition of Facts About the Presidents with a quiz of Presidential facts.

Saturday: July 11 at 11:30 am

Sunday: July 12 at 11:30 am

Monday: July 13 at 11:30 am and 3:30 pm

100 Years of Core Collections (Standard Catalogs)

The Wilson Core Collections assist librarians in collection development, collection evaluation, and maintenance. The series consists of seven databases that are also published as print volumes: Public Library Core Collection: Non-fiction; Fiction Core Collection; Senior High Core Collection; Middle & Junior High Core Collection; and Children's Core Collection; and two that are Web-only: Graphic Novels Core Collection and Nonbook Materials Core Collection. The bibliographic records in these databases are greatlt enhanced with useful information: book jacket images; information about best lists and starred reviews; reading level recommendations; and book reviews (including many reviews in full text). Ray Barber will discuss the varied content of these databases and the new interface that makes them searchable in many ways unique to the online experience.

Saturday: July 11 at 11:00 am

Sunday: July 12 at 2:30 pm

Tuesday: July 14 at 10:00 am

Sears List of Subject Headings on WilsonWeb

The Sears List of Subject Headings, a standard thesaurus for small and medium-sized libraries of all types since 1923, is now available on WilsonWeb. A simple, intuitive, user-friendly interface makes this file available in a whole new way. Ray Barber will demonstrate the special features of Sears online and show how subject cataloging with Sears headings is now easier than ever.

Saturday: July 11 at 4:00 pm

Monday: July 13 at 3:00 pm

Tenth Book of Junior Authors & Illustrators

The year 2009 marks the 75th anniversary of The Junior Book of Authors, the first volume of it kind to celebrate the people who create  books for young people. Join Connie C. Rockman, editor in discussing the selection process for the 10th edition.

Saturday: July 11 3:00 pm

Sunday: July 12 at 2:00 pm

Monday: July 13 at 2:30 pm

Database Previews & Demonstrations