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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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2005
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ720855 |
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- Reach for Reference. Don't Judge a Database by Its Search Screen Safford, Barbara Ripp Databases Reference Materials Childrens Literature Online Searching School Libraries In this column, the author provides a description and brief review of the "Children's Literature Comprehensive Database" (CLCD). This subscription database is a 1999 spinoff from Marilyn Courtot's "Children's Literature" website, which began in 1993 and is a free resource of reviews and features about books, authors, and illustrators. The separate CLCD subscription database has easy-to-read entries based on more than one million MARC records of children's books and media, and materials about children's books, with over 200,000 reviews from more than thirty sources. The database is searchable by many fields: author, title, subject, keywords, ISBN, Lexile codes, genre, and awards. Intended for librarians, teachers, and parents, any computer-savvy fourth grader with some help from the school library media specialist can use this database. The search screen, however, is not intuitive, nor is it easy to follow the suggestions on the screen. It is recommended that users read the search procedure instructions, the recommended "tutorials," and the "frequently-asked questions" section.