Wilson Core Collections
Core Collections is a comprehensive guide for building and maintaining well-rounded collections of nonfiction and fiction books. Each Core Collection contains authoritative recommendations that are vendor and publisher neutral, and all titles are chosen by librarians.
Each collection includes thousands of titles, updated monthly. The collections include:
- Fiction Core Collection: Perfect for libraries navigating the vast adult fiction market.
- Nonfiction Core Collection: Guidance for adult nonfiction collections, including plays and poetry.
- Children’s Core Collection: Collection-development and curriculum-support resource for school libraries and children’s departments.
- Middle & Junior High Core Collection: Recommended for school libraries and children’s and teen collections.
- Senior High Core Collection: Covers young-adult books and adult books with teen appeal for teen departments and high-school libraries.
- Graphic Novels Core Collection: A format with a complicated mix of age levels, themes, storylines, series, and different arcs that play into a larger story.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, EBSCO’s LISTA is the oldest continuously produced database covering librarianship, classification, and information management. It indexes nearly 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings.
Niche Academy
WorldCat
This database contains the bibliographic citations of all material cataloged by libraries worldwide that are members of OCLC, the Online Computer Library Center. It includes records representing books, manuscripts, internet resources, maps, software, musical scores, films and slides, periodicals, sound and video recordings, and more in 400 languages. Updated daily, the 179 million records encompass material ranging from 1000 BC to the present day.
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