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Announces an Agreement with bigchalk.com
The Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database Company, LLC (CLCD) has just signed an agreement with bigchalk.com, inc. for brokering subscriptions to the CLCD database—a collection for school librarians/media specialists, teachers, children's librarians and those in academia responsible for library science, education, and school media specialists programs. The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database is a web-based reference service consisting of over 500,000 MARC-compatible bibliographic records and more than 35,000 reviews. The bibliographic records cover a wide range of materials from picture books to young adult literature. The database is updated monthly with more than 500 new MARC records and approximately 300 reviews. These reviews come from several sources including Kirkus, VOYA, KLIATT, The ALAN Review, Resource Links, Parent CouncilÒ and Children's Literature. Additional book review sources, as well as multi-media reviews including CD-ROM, educational software and videos are being added to the service. Bob Asleson, former president of R.R. Bowker, who directs the marketing of CLCD’s extensive database for its owner and founder Marilyn Courtot says, "we are excited that bigchalk.com will help us continue our program to give librarians and teachers inexpensive access to the broadest possible range of reviews for children’s books and related materials." bigchalk.com, is an education destination for the entire K-12 learning community. The company was formed when Bell & Howell Company and Infonautics, Inc., agreed to combine their K-12 business units. bigchalk.com provides students with the resources that they need to conduct thorough research, access curriculum and collaborate with peers. bigchalk.com enables teachers to gain access to strong research and instructional tools for curriculum integration, and the largest collection of staff development information available on the Internet. Finally, bigchalk.com gives parents the information that they need to feel connected to their child’s school and instruction on how they can best participate in their child’s education. bigchalk.com ensures that all of the learning tools that it selects for its site strictly adhere to one core mission: to continually enhance and improve the educational process for everyone. Currently, bigchalk.com’s core learning products are used in more than 40,000 schools across the country and include: The Electric LibraryÒ ; ProQuestÒ for K-12; SchoolLife.net; WebEd; bigchalkCommunity; and MediaSeek. More information on bigchalk.com can be found at http://www.bigchalk.com. The CLCD collection is a reference product that can also be used for collection development, cataloging and current awareness. It provides an excellent tool for preparing reading lists, bibliographies and finding that one ideal item that will solve a unique reading or educational need. The CLCD Company is a sister business to Children’s Literature which publishes an international monthly newsletter and hosts a prominent web site for children’s book reviews written by more than 150 nationally respected reviewers, author interviews, and links to hundreds of related features and sites. In addition to its newsletter and web site, Children’s Literature established the Children’s Literature Choice List which annually recognizes 150 children’s books of excellence chosen from among the 3,000 books that the newsletter’s reviewers receive each year. For more information about the CLCD database visit www.childrenslit.com or call 1-800 469 2070 or visit us at the Texas Library Association in Houston (April 11-14) and The American Library Association in Chicago (July 8-11). ###
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