Nonbook Materials Core Collection

Organizing today’s multimedia resources using time-honored standards

Reflecting the changing landscape of library resources, Nonbook Materials Core Collection covers a range of audiobooks, book reviews, games, periodicals, sound recordings, video recordings, websites, and other electronic resources for guidance in building and maintaining your library’s collection in these areas.

By streamlining the fragmented world of nonbook materials and making recommended titles easy to find, this essential resource saves librarians time and unnecessary expense, while still ensuring that patrons have the best possible research and entertainment tools available to them.

You can search Nonbook Materials Core Collection on its own, or in combination with any other database in the Core Collections series for the fullest possible answers to your query.

Nonbook Materials Core Collection features:

Detailed, descriptive, annotated entries on more than 5,300 recommended resources for school and public libraries, including book review excerpts and awards.
Highlighting of items particularly useful for curriculum support.
An abundance of professional materials, including links to dissertations and websites for professional and library development.
“What’s New” query, allowing librarians to see what has been added to the database in the last week, month, or year, or since it was last checked. The database can also be configured to send daily, weekly, or monthly alerts by email, citing new materials relevant to a given search topic.
Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) ranging, allowing ranges of DDC numbers to be searched, as well as specific numbers.
Recommendation levels, from narrowest to broadest, allowing for narrow or expanded searches.
Indicators for starred reviews, awards, and “Best Lists”.
Regular updates.