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Careers
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Continuing its
acclaimed Current Issues series, H. W. Wilson’s
Careers brings you all the career
information you need in a single source.
Careers
will prove to be an ideal resource for high-school students,
vocational college and technical college students, and
anyone considering a career change. It will offer
comprehensive coverage of all aspects of careers and
career-related issues, including: Qualifications, Duties and
responsibilities, Pay scales, Application processes, and
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Cinema Image Gallery
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“A perfect ten. ...The
content is superlative...
Enthusiastically recommended for academic and special
libraries supporting film studies programs and
researchers, as well as for medium to large public
libraries.”—Library Journal |
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Just added—1,700
new images from films released in 2008.
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Coming soon—new
search parameters: Country, Film Subject, Best Costume Design,
Silent (as a genre)
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Coming soon—Links
to motion picture and TV show clips on The Internet Archive
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Approximately 200,000
superior-quality images - substantial quarterly additions - from movie and television
history
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Images link to
biographical profiles and film reviews
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Spans over a hundred
years of cinema
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Practical for
research in film, media, history, costume design, biography,
literature, and more
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All images
rights-cleared for education use
New!
Biography Database Enhancements
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ReadSpeaker “text
to speech” converter for full-text articles! Listen to
articles as streaming audio, or download as MP3s for playback
later.
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Article
translations. Electronic conversion into Spanish, French,
German, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Arabic
and Dutch.
New!
Sears List of Subject Headings
on WilsonWeb
A respected resource
among librarians for more than 80 years, Sears List of Subject
Headings brings small and mid-sized libraries a foundation of
essential, up-to-date headings, together with patterns and examples
for creating new headings efficiently and according to standard. The
new Sears on WilsonWeb database delivers all material from
the 19th Edition in print (2007), an abundance of new headings on
important subjects 2007 through today, plus new headings in regular
updates.
New social networking
links!
Current Issues Databases
New on
Current Issues: Reference Shelf
Plus, Current
Issues: Health, and
Current
Issues: Environment: "Comments" links invite users to share
their own information and insights on the issues with other users of
the databases worldwide.
Online Enhancements
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ReadSpeaker “text to speech” converter for full-text
articles! Listen to articles as streaming audio,
or download as MP3s for playback later.
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New
“My WilsonWeb” profiles. Users can maintain
their own sub-account within WilsonWeb, creating and
managing saved searches, search histories, email
alerts, and RSS feeds.
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Article translations. Electronic conversion into
Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese,
Korean, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, Dutch and now
Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese!
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RSS
feed for new search results. Configure RSS
updates via links on the Search Results or Search
History pages.
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New
“Content Discovery Keys” on Search Results page.
Convenient links launch related searches, allow
users to narrow results by author, subject,
publication year, document type, and database (for
multiple-database searches), or select previous
searches from the Recent Searches listing.
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Language options for WilsonWeb
navigation buttons. New dropdown menu converts
the main buttons from English (the default setting)
into Spanish, French, German, Italian, or
Portuguese.
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Enhanced!
Art Museum
Image Gallery
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New—suggestions for
related searches
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New citation
auto-formatting—MLA and APA options
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New images from
outstanding Library of Congress collections:
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African-American
Photographs Assembled for the 1900 Paris Exposition
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Fine prints: Japanese, pre-1915 Lomax
Collection (images documenting sound recording expeditions
carried out for the LC Archive of American Folk Song)
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World War I Posters (American, Australian,
Austrian, British, Canadian, French, German, Italian and
others supporting the war effort)
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WPAPosters—produced by various branches of
President Roosevelt’s Work Projects Administration to
publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical
productions, and health and educational programs that were
part of the “New Deal.”
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Van Vechten Collection—photographs by noted
author and photographer Carl Van Vechten
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Print News
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New!
Tenth Book of Junior Authors & Illustrators
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Entertaining, insightful profiles of the
authors and illustrators behind popular books for young readers
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Some 200 entries in total
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Lists of works by each author (or illustrator)
provides practical reference for readers advisory
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Many first-person entries: authors and
illustrators speaking directly and naturally to young readers
2008 ● 600 pages
● ISBN 978-0-8242-1066-3 ●
$120 ● $135 Outside U.S. and Canada
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New Edition!
Public Library Core Collection: Nonfiction,
A Selection Guide, 13th Edition
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Practical guide to building and maintaining a
well-rounded collection of reference and nonfiction works for
adults.
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More than 8,000 entries in the main volume, and
more than 2,400 new listings in annual paperbound supplements in
2009, 2010, and 2011
2008 ● 1,445 pages
(main volume) ● Supplements 170 pages
each
ISBN 978-0-8242-1094-6
● $410
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New!
Facts About the Presidents, 8th Edition
Reviewers praise previous editions:
“Catnip for history buffs.”—Forbes
“An essential ready reference source for any
library.”—Choice
“With uniformly designed chapters devoted to each
president, this is the work
to turn to with a presidential query.”—Booklist
Covers the lives, backgrounds, and terms in office
of every American president,
including the inauguration and early
White House tenure of Barack Obama.
Approx. 816 pages ●
ISBN 978-0-8242-1087-8 ● $150 ● $170
Outside U.S. and Canada
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Now Available!
Middle & Junior
High Core Collection
A Selection Guide, 10th Edition
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Covers nonfiction, fiction, and collections for
readers at grade levels 6 through 8, plus review sources and
other professional aids.
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More than 10,000 entries (4,000 more than the
9th Edition). Some 4,000 new titles will be listed in annual
supplements in 2010, 2011, and 2012.
September 2009 ▪
Approximately 1,600 pages (main volume)
▪ Supplements 300 pages each ▪ ISBN
978-0-8242-1102-5 ▪ $290
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Fiction Core Collection
A Selection Guide, 16th Edition
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Covers classic and contemporary fiction for a
general adult audience, written or translated into English.
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More than 8,000 entries in the main volume,
and more than 2,400 new listings in annual supplements in 2010,
2011, and 2012.
January 2010
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1,317 pages (main volume) ▪ Supplements
170 pages each ▪ ISBN 978-0-8242-1103-5
▪ $265
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New in the Reference Shelf Book Series - 2010
Robotics
Examines the history, technology, manufacture, and application
of physical robots. The topics explored include the promise of
nanotechnology and artificial intelligence, among other issues. |
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