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H.W. Wilson's renowned collection development guides, Core Collections, are available as four-year ongoing subscriptions. Each subscription provides a substantial, library-bound guide including thousands of recommended titles in its first year. In the three years that follow, paperback supplements (also containing thousands of recommendations) are delivered annually.

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	Recommended to librarians and libraries at all levels….Easy to use, economical, and makes so much possible for anyone working with children's literature and collection development.
Booklist

	An essential selection and readers' advisory tool for most academic and public libraries.
American Reference Books Annual

	The 'Mother of all Selection Tools', otherwise known as Wilson's Core Collections.
School Library Journal

	Should be found somewhere in every school district as a core resource for collection building. Highly recommended.
Teacher Librarian

H.W. Wilson's Core Collections (previously Standard Catalogs) have been collection development, readers' advisory and cataloging bibles since 1918. These exhaustive resources are also valuable tools for collection maintenance and curriculum support. Richly enhanced records provide a wealth of useful information. All entries include complete bibliographic data as well as price, subject headings, annotations, grade level, Dewey classification, cover art, and quotations from reviews. Many entries also list awards, best-book lists, and starred reviews.

Uniquely Valuable
There is nothing quite like Wilson Core Collections. The accumulated expertise of our selectors, and the unquestioned reputation of these collections, is invaluable. Core Collections are universally recognized as impartial and expert aids to collection development that assist and reinforce the judgment of librarians everywhere. Selection to a Wilson Core Collection is strong support to any challenged purchase.

Subscriptions
Core Collections, are available as four-year ongoing subscriptions. Each subscription provides a substantial, library-bound guide including thousands of recommended titles in its first year. In the three years that follow, paperback supplements (also containing thousands of recommendations) are delivered annually. Past editions are, of course, available.

For more detailed information on individual Core Collections series, click the "More Info" button next to its title.

Senior High
CORE COLLECTION

One volume, 1,500 pages
Three supplements, 250 pages each
List Price: $255

Wilson's Senior High Core Collection (18th Edition, 2011) is a guide to over 8,000 books plus review sources and other professional aids for librarians and school media specialists. The Collection is a selective list of fiction and non-fiction books recommended for grades 9 through 12. It includes analytical entries for parts of books, a list of recommended periodicals for high school libraries, and a list of recommended electronic resources.

Children's
CORE COLLECTION

One volume, 2,317 pages
Three supplements, 400 pages each
List Price: $210

Wilson's Children's Core Collection, (20th Edition, 2010) is a guide of approximately 10,000 books covering fiction and nonfiction works, story collections, picture books, graphic novels and magazines recommended for readers from preschool through grade six. It also includes review sources and other professional aids for librarians and school media specialists, plus professional literature for children's librarians, both periodicals and books.

Fiction
CORE COLLECTION

Public Library
CORE COLLECTION: NONFICTION

Middle & Junior High School
CORE COLLECTION

One volume, 1,595 pages
Three supplements, 200 pages each
List Price: $290

This Collection is a selective list of over 10,000 fiction and non-fiction books recommended for children and young adolescents (grades 5 through 9), along with review sources and other professional aids for librarians and school media specialists. It includes analytical entries for parts of books, a list of recommended periodicals for middle and junior high school libraries, and a list of recommended electronic resources.