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=Brooklyn Latin High School Library= =Collection Development=

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to the Library Collection Development Wiki. I'm using this wiki to help us decide on which databases, electronic books and print books we want to purchase for Brooklyn Latin HS Library. I will be meeting with you at school in the fall but I thought this would provide you with easy access to some of the resources I'm arranging up for your review. Below I have listed trial subscriptions for online databases. I thought we could start with Encyclopedia Britannica and Thompson Gale Resources and add others in the fall. I highlighted a few of the Thomson Gale databases that I wanted you to give particular attnetion, but please browse through other specialized ones that interest you - their collection is huge.

There is also a Brooklyn Latin account in Follett Library Resource's Titlewave. This is large database of books for K-12 in which you can browse titles by keywords, reading level, subject, number of reviews, etc. and place them into a list for purchase. I showed it to Alex and I'm sure he would be happy to brief you on it if you are at summer school one day and I'll show it to you in the fall.

If you would like to share your opinions and ideas about these resources, please click on the Discussion tab on top of this page.

Thanks, Pam

Encyclopedia Britannica:
(ID and password are in your email) Britannica Online School Edition – **[|http://www.school.eb.com]** Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol – **[|http://spanish.eb.com]**

Thomson Gale Resources:
(ID and password are in your email) For aaccess to all Gale atabases - http://trials.gale.com/k12/ Once you are in the databases, be sure to look at these:
 * The Student Resource Center** – This is the premiere foundational database covering all curriculum topics and containing detailed information on a broad range of subject areas. It comes in 3 different levels – Bronze, Silver, and Gold. Obviously Gold being the highest and containing the most reference content.
 * Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center with Critical** **Thinking** – Based on the award winning set from Greenhaven Press called Opposing Viewpoints with added a curriculum focus.
 * Biography** **Resource** **Center** – Contains over 450K biographies on 350K people.
 * Gale Virtual Reference Library** – **eBooks** – Here you can view cross curricular eBooks that are currently loaded. Just click on this database and once you are in there you will see subject areas like Art, Literature, Science, History, etc. Just click on anyone of those and it will give you a list of eBooks under that subject that you can click on and view.

Follett Library Resources Titlewave
http://www.titlewave.com/ (ID and password are in your email)