New Ninth Edition of H.W. Wilson's Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog

New Ninth Edition of H.W. Wilson's Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog
New coverage for Both Print and Electronic Editions

New York, New York, November 8, 2005
H.W. Wilson today announced the new Ninth Edition of its acclaimed Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog--including timely coverage of new topics of interest to middle school students and their educators, plus expanded coverage of web resources, periodicals, and graphic novels. Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog presents an up-to-date, reliable core collection of fiction and nonfiction books (and other publications) for readers at grade levels five through nine, plus review sources and other aids for school librarians and media specialists. All titles were selected by experienced librarians familiar with the needs of young people and their educators, representing diverse parts of the country.

This up-to-date reference provides indispensable help with collection development and maintenance, curriculum support, selection and purchasing, and general reference. All content from the new Ninth Edition will also appear on Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog, Electronic Edition on WilsonWeb.

Each entry in Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog offers an abundance of up-to-date information for acquiring new resources and integrating them into a library's collection: publisher, price, ISBN, suggested Dewey Decimal classification, and more. Descriptive annotations and evaluative quotes from reviews--plus notes on editions available, awards, publication history, and series titles--help librarians decide what new titles are right for their library, curriculum, and individual readers.

Besides the just-published main volume, Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog, Ninth Edition delivers annual updates in paperbound supplements through 2008, at no extra charge. The main volume includes entries for more than 6,000 items (plus more than 2,000 analytic entries for sections of anthologies and composite works), and annual supplements will introduce some 2,400 new titles.

New Coverage, New Features
Several new features have been introduced with the Ninth Edition. The list of recommended CD-ROMs in previous editions has been replaced by a list of recommended electronic resources (mostly web-based), reflecting changes in the technology. Entirely new is a list of recommended periodicals, presented in two sections: one a list of journals for teachers, librarians, and media specialists, the other a list of periodicals for children and young adults, with emphasis on their educational value. A third new feature is a selection of recommended graphic novels, chosen by an expert in the field with special attention to propriety for a middle and junior high school audience.

Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog covers a broad spectrum of topics, with special focus on technology, personal values, current social and political issues, and ethnic diversity. New topics of particular importance are cloning and other new technologies, bioethics, terrorism, and politics in the post-September 11th world. The fiction section presents a wide range of literary works of interest to youth and many that are frequently part of in the school curriculum--classics as well as contemporary fiction and genre literature. Among the resources included for the librarian or media specialist are bibliographies, professional journals, and other tools for the selection and evaluation of materials, and the use of the Internet in instruction.

Also Available Online
On WilsonWeb, Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog, Electronic Edition delivers all the content of the Ninth Edition plus an archive from the previous edition. The database also features links to Wilson's Book Review Digest Plus database, links to holdings information via the library's OPAC, continuous updates, and other conveniences of electronic searching. Libraries that subscribe to the electronic edition save 50% on the cost of the print edition.

The Wilson Standard Catalogs also include Children's Catalog, Senior High School Library Catalog, Public Library Catalog and Fiction Catalog. Content from H.W. Wilson's Standard Catalogs will power the new Bowker's Book Analysis System for school and public libraries, providing automated holdings gap analyses, and eliminating the tedious manual comparisons involved in most collection development.