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9 Decades of Collection Development Expertise:
In Libraries since 1918
"The Ultimate Librarian Cheat Sheets...
Wilson's Core Collections are more valuable than ever...
Are you searching for ways to make sure your library collection is
full of the best resources for your students? One of the easiest and
probably best ways is to match your collection with what has always
been the 'Mother of all Selection Tools,' otherwise known as the H.W.
Wilson Standard Catalogs... For keeping us
on track with what is recommended for our collections, these
databases receive an A+."
See
FULL REVIEW
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Use the Wilson
Core Collections
online with the new
Bowker's Book Analysis System™
Powered by H.W. Wilson’s
Core Collections, Bowker's Book
Analysis System provides automated holdings gap analyses,
eliminating the tedious manual comparisons involved in most
collection development. Subscribers to both the Bowker's Book
Analysis System and the H.W. Wilson Core Collections on WilsonWeb
will be able to view a comparison of core titles with their
library's collection, identifying gaps in their resources and books
they'd like to purchase.
Bowker and H.W. Wilson, two founding fathers serving the library
field, have joined together to create the first online collection
development tool of its kind for school and public libraries. Click
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Senior High Core Collection: A Selection Guide,
17th Edition
Online &
Print
New Print Edition Available!
"Should be found somewhere in every school district as a core
resource for collection building….Highly recommended."
—Teacher Librarian
Highlights over 10,000 books of fiction, nonfiction and collections,
for young adults in grades nine through twelve.
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Children's Core
Collection
Children's
Catalog
Online &
Print
"Recommended to librarians and libraries at all levels…
Easy to use, economical, and makes so much possible for anyone working
with children’s literature and collection development."
—Booklist
Delivers entries for over
13,000 fiction and nonfiction works, story collections, picture books
and magazines.
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Middle and Junior Core Collection
Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog
Online &
Print
"For school librarians, this catalog should be considered a mandatory
purchase."
—American Reference Books Annual
Provides entries for over 10,000 fiction and nonfiction works, and collections, appropriate for
readers in grades five through nine. Entries also include select
review sources and other professional aids for librarians and school
media specialists.
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Public Library Core
Collection: Fiction
Fiction Catalog
Online &
Print
"An essential selection and readers’ advisory tool for most
academic and public libraries."
—American Reference Books
Annual
Highlights over 8,000
works of fiction for adults, including both established and
contemporary works written in (or translated into) English.
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Public Library Core Collection:
Nonfiction
Public Library Catalog
Online &
Print
9 Decades of Collection Development Expertise:
In Libraries since 1918
"This bibliography continues to live up to one of its earlier titles,
as a ‘standard’ catalog guiding general readers and librarians to useful
classic and new books."
—American Reference Books Annual
Note:
Public Library Core Collection: Nonfiction, 13th Edition, will be
available November, 2008.
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Created with the input of
librarians, each Core Collection is a guide to thousands of books, plus
review sources and other professional aids for librarians and school
media specialists.
The Wilson Core Collections are powerful aids to:
In print:
the Core Collections offer a full four-year service for one low price, with a
clothbound volume and annual paperback supplements covering newly
published titles.
Online: A subscription to the Core Collections on WilsonWeb offers fast,
convenient searching by keyword, subject, title, author, and other
access points, plus a host of other important benefits.
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Develop and maintain the
optimal collection for your library. |
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Information about new titles in a wide range of subjects helps you
decide what to purchase, replace, or discard. Descriptive annotations
and evaluative quotes from reviews, plus notes on editions available,
awards, publication history, and series titles help you decide what
new titles are right for your collection. |
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Turn here for
purchasing information and bibliographic data. |
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Accurate information for acquiring new resources and integrating them
into your collection—publisher, price, ISBN, suggested Dewey Decimal
classification, and more. |
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Advise readers and
educators with authority. |
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Up-to-date subject headings help you address any inquiry with the
appropriate books, or find relevant material via the analytical
entries for parts of books. |
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Develop curricula. |
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Identify materials appropriate for classroom use
whatever the subject, with informative descriptions of a wide
range of books and electronic resources. |
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Created with input from
noted librarians. |
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Representing diverse geographical areas, experts familiar with the
special needs of each type of library choose titles for each of the
Core Collections. |
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