Meeting Your Needs

Reliable, accurate, current information in a cost-effective package

FOR BOOK REVIEWS:

   “Although other good products offer children's literature reviews and information, CLCD's searching capabilities surpass them in ease and available qualifiers, making this my first choice for locating reviews or books on a certain topic.”

The Charleston Advisor

   “In our district, teachers are often looking for multiple similar titles to use with small reading groups in the class. CLCD is a great tool to help you find multiple titles with a similar theme on the same or slightly varied reading levels.”

Christine Findlay
CRC Director, Centerville City Schools
Centerville, OH

FOR MULTIPLE VIEWPOINTS:

   “CLCD is the easiest place to find book reviews. Having the full text of many reviews from so many different sources in one place for each title is a great time-saver. I also love the ability to limit by age or grade level. These and other features make CLCD invaluable for teachers, professors, students, and children alike.”

Christina M. Desai
Education Librarian, Morris Library
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL

AS AN EASY-TO-USE RESOURCE LOCATOR:

   “As an assistant professor teaching Children's Literature and working with Education majors, I have found the CLCD to be invaluable. My students find reviews, sources, and other pertinent information. Recently, one of our English majors who is getting ready to student teach had found the names of books her cooperating teacher would be using in the spring. We used the CLCD to find out about the books and to give her a heads up on using them in her teaching practice.”

Judy Bivens
Instructional Resources Center, Waggoner Library and CIT
Trevecca Nazarene University
Nashville, TN

   “By using CLCD, I just prepared a list of fantasy books with some connection to cats for a ten-year-old girl reading just above grade level. Including the searching, selection, looking at some suggested links, copying and pasting into a Word document, arranging the titles, cleaning up the fonts, and individualizing the annotations for the student, it took about twenty-five minutes!”

Barbara Ripp Safford
"Don't Judge a Database by Its Search Screen"
School Library Media Activities Monthly, Vol XXII, Number 2

FOR LITERATURE CIRCLES AND SUMMER READING:

   “Our school is committed to engaging and nurturing the girls' interests in science, technology, engineering and math. The database helps me flesh out areas of the collection that can quickly become dated; by entering keywords, I then find titles to plug the holes in my collection or to fill a new need. Titlewave and Amazon are not as good with their limiters [as CLCD].”

Walter Mayes
Librarian, The Girls' Middle School
Mountainview, CA

FOR A COST EFFECTIVE SERVICE:

   “The amount of funding for our school library was decreased for this school year. I made the decision to renew the CLCD subscription and to not purchase something else. Your product is excellent! I can't image school librarians not having access.”

Carolyn Nilsson
Librarian, Halifax County High School
South Boston, Virginia

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Updated 9/19/11