Chilton Library

Step-by-step instructions for your auto repair needs. Includes videos and animations, close-up images, wiring diagrams, diagnostic information, and maintenance and specification tables.

Cities of the United States

Provides vital information on 199 of America’s top cities . City-specific profiles organize pertinent facts and data.

Complete Human Diseases and Conditions

A user-friendly, accessible and colorfully illustrated work presents basic resources for understanding diseases and conditions.

Computer Source

Covers many subject areas around computing: electronics, the internet, telecommunications, computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software.

Consumer Health Complete

Comprehensive resources for consumer-oriented health content. Designed to support the needs of patient and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. Covers all areas of health and wellness.

Consumer Reports

Presents articles on health, public safety, marketplace economics and the judicial & regulatory actions that affect consumers.

Consumer Reports Buying Guides

These invaluable guides bring you 2000+ expert reviews, ratings and advice on electronics, home appliances, cars, and more. Plus, you’ll have fingertip access to brand repair histories and shopping strategies to help make the most informed buying decisions wherever you go.

Contemporary Novelists

Includes biographies, bibliographies and critical essays on approximately 650 contemporary writers. Includes nationality and title indexes.

Contemporary Poets

Provides bibliographies and biographical information on 787 of the world’s most important contemporary English-language poets.

Core Collection en Espanol

Core Collection en Español provides impartial collection development guidance, assisting libraries faced with the challenges of growing and establishing a collection for their Spanish-language readers.

Spanish-language titles are recommended for all ages and reading levels and are given one of three recommendation levels, allowing libraries to determine which materials to select based on their community’s needs.

Core Collection: Adult Fiction

The selective list presented in this collection 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.

Core Collection: Adult Non-Fiction

Nonfiction Core Collection (formerly called Public Library Core Collection: Non-Fiction) is a collection development tool for identifying the highest quality nonfiction books for the general adult reader. Tens of thousands of recommendations herein were each selected for librarians by librarians. It includes complete bibliographic data and full textbook reviews from Book Review Digest Plus. Collection development, acquisitions, and reference librarians as well as school media specialists and catalogers can all use this reliable guide to building and maintaining a well-rounded collection of the most highly recommended reference, poetry, plays, and non-fiction books for adults.

Core Collection: Children’s

This rich resource covers fiction and nonfiction works, story collections, picture books, and magazines recommended for readers in preschool through sixth grade. Professional literature for the children’s librarian—both periodicals and books—is also covered. Selected and recommended by collection development specialists, books within the Children’s Core Collection encompass a wide variety of topics, including social sciences, science, math, and reading.

Core Collection: Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels Core Collection highlights recommended titles with descriptive and evaluative annotations, plus cover art.

Features include:

• Comprehensive annotations, including review excerpts and awards the title has won
• All titles searchable by author, title, subject, genre, and grade level
• Applied standards for rating material by age appropriateness
• Cover art
• Important insights into the suitability of each novel

Core Collection: Middle & Junior High

This Collection is a selective list of fiction and non-fiction books recommended for children and young adolescents (grades 5 through 9), along with review sources and other professional aids for librarians and school media specialists. Selected and recommended by collection development specialists in library service to young people, listed books encompass a wide variety of topics for youth.

Core Collection: Senior High

Wilson’s Senior High Core Collection, a selective list of books recommended for young people in grades 9 through 12 is invaluable for collection development and maintenance, reader’s advisory, and curriculum support in the high school library. Senior High School Core Collection lists review sources and other professional aids for librarians and school media specialists.

Core Collections

Core Collections, brought to you by H.W. Wilson company & EBSCO, combines 6 distinct collections that identify the best and most current material available to your library. The seven collections include Graphic Novels, Children’s, Adult Fiction, Adult Nonfiction, Middle & Junior High School, and Senior High. Use these databases to build your library’s collection with any budget. Curated lists of essential, recommended, and supplemental titles are available, as well as full-text book reviews, weeding checklists, and more.