FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Marilyn Courtot CLCD Company, LLC (301) 469-2070 1-800-508-5782 marilyn@childrenslit.com CLCD PARTNERS WITH NSTA RECOMMENDS June 20, 2006 - The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database Company, LLC (CLCD) is pleased to announce that reviews from NSTA Recommends are now available at the CLCD. NSTA Recommends reviews high-quality books, software, kits, and videos that serve as useful science teacher resource materials for grades K-College. An experienced teacher in the appropriate subject and grade level reviews each resource for scientific accuracy, classroom usefulness, and overall value. That draft commentary is edited and enhanced by a leading science educator. Marilyn Courtot, President of The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database Company, LLC, remarks, "We are extremely happy to include the reviews from NSTA Recommends. It is essential today for librarians, teachers and other professionals working with children's and young adult books and other materials to know the titles they can rely on for accuracy, clarity and the ability to immerse the reader in the subject matter. We know our subscribers are looking for more reviews on science-related software and videos. These reviews from the National Science Teachers Association are a wonderful enhancement to CLCD." Well over 2,000 NSTA Recommends product and book reviews from the last five years will appear in the CLCD database, and NSTA is adding many more reviews each month. NSTA Recommends is an online review service that is the premier source for thoughtful, objective recommendations of science teaching materials. NSTA has identified a panel of outstanding science educators who serve as the backbone of the system. NSTA Recommends lets teachers tell teachers about the most helpful science resources available for grades K-College. About the new agreement with CLCD, David Beacom, Publisher of NSTA Online says, "Through this partnership with The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD), the audience for NSTA Recommends reviews will expand even further, putting top quality resources in the hands of more science educators." About The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD), is an Internet based acquisition, research, and reference service, offering more than one million MARC records and over 200,000 reviews of children's books, multimedia, audio books, etc. from 33 sources including The ALAN Review, Booklist, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, CCBC Choices, The Five Owls, The Horn Book Guide, Audio Reviews, Inis, KIRKUS Reviews, KLIATT,, Resource Links, Science Books & Films and VOYA. Subscribers can search for specific titles, authors, subjects and see the associated reviews, prepare annotated lists/bibliographies, and locate and download MARC records. CLCD also contains jacket images and has thousands of links to author and illustrator web features. In addition to the review data, the CLCD database has information about thousands of books that have been recognized as having particular merit. There are over 260,000 entries identifying these select books. National, state and international awards back to the first Newbery in 1922. There are over 60 best books lists, plus all state reading lists. The reading measurement parameters of the Accelerated Reader, Degrees of Reading Power, Lexile and Reading Counts have been incorporated into the basic bibliographic record for each evaluated book. The CLCD is on the web at www.childrenslit.com About the NSTA The Arlington, VA-based National Science Teachers Association is the largest professional organization in the world promoting excellence and innovation in science teaching and learning for all. NSTA's current membership includes more than 55,000 science teachers, science supervisors, administrators, scientists, business and industry representatives, and others involved in science education. For more information, please visit the NSTA home page at www.nsta.org. ###