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The selective list presented in Public Library Core Collection: Fiction features classic and contemporary works of fiction recommended for a general adult audience, written in or translated into English. The best authors and their most widely read works in literary and popular fiction, old and new, are listed, including mysteries, science fiction, fantasy, Westerns, and romance. Public Library Core Collection: Fiction provides entries for individual novels and analytic entries for novellas and novels contained in composite works. You will find more than 8,000 titles listed, with entries providing complete bibliographic data, price, descriptive annotations, and evaluative quotations from a review when available. Use the information for collection development and maintenance, readers' advisory, and general reference.

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An online subscription to Public Library Core Collection: Fiction brings you all the rich content available in the print edition with the convenience of enhanced online search capabilities. Search over 8,000 entries (nearly 1,000 analytical entries for parts of collections or anthologies) in one easy-to-use database.
 

Search by:

• Keyword

• Publication Year

• Title

• ISBN

• Subject

• ISSN

• Publisher

• Document Type: Books, Book Chapter, CD-ROM

• Author

• Dewey Decimal Classification Number

Additional features, available exclusively in the online version, make Fiction Catalog even more valuable for collection development and curriculum support:

• Entries link to additional review excerpts from Wilson’s Book Review Digest Plus database.

• Retrieve records in machine-readable MARC format.

• Instantly check your library’s holdings via a link to your OPAC.

• Search descriptive and critical annotations for specific words.

• Search simultaneously with other Wilson Core Collections or other Wilson databases, including Readers’ Guide.

• Now updated continuously on WilsonWeb—no need to wait for annual printed updates to get the latest information on new books.

Online Format: Annual subscription. Contact us for pricing or to request a free trial.

Order now and you receive the hardcover main volume (2006) now, and three annual paper supplements in 2007, 2008, and 2009.

A print subscription to Fiction Catalog, 15th Edition brings you entries for more than 8,000 books in the main volume (2006), and more than 2,400 new titles in annual paperbound supplements published 2007 through 2009.

Each volume includes the following:

• Author Alphabet This section lists works of fiction in alphabetical order by the last name of the author or by title, if it is the main entry.

  The following bibliographical information is provided:

  • Author

  • Out-of-Print Status

  • Title

  • Reprint Publication Data

  • Publisher

  • ISBN

  • Date of Publication

  • Library of Congress Number

  • Notes Regarding Sequels

  • Illustration Note

  • Publication History

  • Price

  • Contents of Story Collections

   

• A descriptive summary and, in most instances, an excerpt from a review conclude the entry. References are made from variant forms of authors’ names, from names of joint authors, and from names of editors or compilers of short story collections.

• Analytical entries, are identified by the word "In," are made for parts of composite works. Analytical entries heighten the usefulness of Fiction Catalog by expanding access to the library’s collections.

• Title and Subject Index. Each book is listed under title, followed by the name of the author under which the entry for the book will be found. You can also find books listed under their main subjects or themes, and under headings for genre, form, or literary technique, with specific headings for persons, places, events, historical periods, lifestyles, and legendary characters. Subject headings and subject cross references are printed in capital letters.

Print Format: 15th Edition, Four-year service

(Includes hardcover volume plus four annual paperbound supplements)
◘ $240 ($270 outside the U.S. and Canada) 
◘ ISBN 0-8242-1055-7
◘ Hardcover volume: 2006, 1,317 pages
◘ Paperback supplements: 2007, 2008, 2009, each approximately 170 pages
 

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