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.

Gale Ebooks

A collection of electronic specialized encyclopedias and reference books on a wide variety of subject areas that can be searched individually or as a whole.

Newspaper Source Plus

Full text coverage of major newspapers, videos, and podcasts covering critical news topics.

Novelist K-8 Plus

For readers in Grades K-8, find fiction and narrative nonfiction reading recommendations by book titles, author, genre, series, or key plot points. Ready-to-go read-alike lists for popular titles.

Novelist Plus

Find fiction reading recommendations for all ages. Search by book title, author, genre, or key plot points. Find information about a book series and discussion guides for book groups.

WorldCat.org

Search the catalogs of libraries worldwide through a single portal to identify and locate materials of all types and formats available in libraries and through interlibrary loan.