FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Marilyn Courtot CLCD Company, LLC (301) 469-2070 marilyn@childrenslit.com THE CHILDREN'S LITERATURE COMPREHENSIVE DATABASE OFFERS A NEW 30-DAY INDIVIDUAL SUBSCRIPTION Bethesda MD - September 20, 2002 - The Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) now offers users two ways to subscribe. New this month is a 30 day individual subscription for classroom teachers, reading teachers, students, literacy organizations, museum personnel as well as others who determine that their needs are best met by a short term subscription. It provides unlimited searching and individual use of the database to conduct research, create bibliographies, develop thematic units, or catalog children’s literature materials. “Many teachers have told us that although they are always looking for new books to enhance their curriculum materials, in reality, their schedules permit in-depth focus only a couple times of year. They will certainly benefit from the availability of a 30-day individual subscription, “says Marilyn Courtot, President of the CLCD Company LLC. The 30-day individual subscription is available at $29.95. Each month CLCD adds 1,000 new MARC records and an average of 1,200 new reviews and 1,000 new entries for books, awards, reading list, etc. The annual subscription for unlimited building-wide use is still available at $249.95. Special pricing is available for multiple buildings, school districts and library systems. “Our students and student teachers find the CLCD especially helpful to support their Children's Literature courses. We were delighted to find that the expanded databases have been offered at such a reasonable, affordable price so that students at small colleges like ours can continue to access this growing resource.” Flora S. Lowe, Library Director, Mount St. Clare College, IA About the Children's Literature Comprehensive Database The Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD), located in Bethesda, Maryland, is a web-based service that greatly speeds and simplifies the process of locating information about children’s books, videos, and audio books ranging from the earliest board books to novels and nonfiction for young adults. The database offers full text search capability of approximately 700,000 records in MARC format and more than 100,000 reviews from twenty-one reliable sources. The CLCD database also includes over 160,000 entries identifying titles that were winners from over 200 state, national and international awards, honors and prizes, as well as, 200 best books lists, state reading lists and reading measurement programs. ###