H.W. Wilson Announces Nonbook Materials Core Collection
New Selection Guide in the Core Collections Series Focuses on
Quality and Value Beyond the Bookshelves
New York, New York, April 22, 2008
As multimedia transforms the worlds of learning and recreation,
H.W. Wilson has announced a practical new guide for librarians
concerned with building an up-to-date, useful, and well-rounded
collection of materials beyond the bookshelves. New in the WilsonWeb
Core Collections family of databases,
Nonbook Materials Core
Collection: A Selection Guide highlights more than 2,300
electronic resources, videos, sound recordings, audiobooks,
educational games, and periodicals recommended for various types of
libraries. The database also presents an abundance of professional
materials. All resources highlighted in Nonbook Materials Core
Collection have been selected by a team of experts.
Valuable for collection development, readers'
advisory and curriculum support, Nonbook Materials Core
Collection allows searching (and cross-searching) for materials
by a wide range of useful parameters, including media type, reading
level, subject, title, publication year, author, publisher, keyword,
and more.
Users can limit any search to a "short list" of
the most highly recommended titles. Special limiters also allow you
to retrieve just entries for fiction, nonfiction, or biography,
and--since the database grows with frequent updates--a "What's New"
limiter lets you find only what's been added in the last week,
month, year, or since the last time you checked.
Entries include descriptive and critical
annotations that offer insight into both quality and content of
resources, and cover art (if available) gives librarians a
first-person "feel" for the work. Strict standards are applied to
rating materials by age appropriateness. Review excerpts are
featured and entries note any awards the work has won. Cataloging
records are provided for all items.
The database can link to the library's OPAC, for
an instant check of holdings for any item cited.
Nonbook Materials Core Collection searches
seamlessly with other Wilson Core Collections and other Wilson
databases. The H.W. Wilson Core Collection Selection Guides also
include Public Library Core Collection: Fiction (formerly
Fiction Catalog); Public Library Core Collection: Nonfiction
(formerly Public Library Catalog); Children's Core
Collection (formerly Children's Catalog); Middle and
Junior High Core Collection (formerly Middle and Junior High
School Library Catalog); Senior High Core Collection
(formerly Senior High School Library Catalog), and the new
Graphic Novels Core Collection, hailed as a "valuable tool" by
Booklist, "representative of the highest quality and most
popular examples of current graphic publishing."
Free 30-day trials of Nonbook Materials Core
Collection are available. Register at
www.hwwilson.com/trial.
About H.W. Wilson
Since 1898, independent publisher H.W. Wilson has provided
researchers with references produced with unmatched editorial
integrity. More than 60 H.W. Wilson databases--indexes, abstracts,
full text resources, plus the acclaimed Retrospective
Collection--meet the research needs of customers around the globe.
From the long-popular
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature to today's
widely-praised Biography
Reference Bank, H.W. Wilson products are created for
librarians, by librarians. Over 150 Wilson editorial staff members
with MLS or MLIS degrees--multi-lingual trained librarians and
subject specialists--build the Wilson references each day.
Contact:
Roseward Sky
Phone (800)
367-6770, x2272
Email:
rsky@hwwilson.com
Frank Daly
Phone: (800) 367-6770, x2312
Email: fdaly@hwwilson.com
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