Auto-Graphics Partners With Children's Literature Comprehensive Database Company, LLC, to Provide Record Enrichment for its SchoolCAT(TM) Cataloging Product.POMONA, Calif. -- Enables Comprehensive, Well-Informed Literary Selection to K-12 School Librarians, Teachers, and Parents Auto-Graphics, Inc. (Pink Sheets:AUGR), a pioneer and leading provider of library automation solutions for over 35 years, today announced a partnership with the Children's Literature children's literature, writing whose primary audience is children. See also children's book illustration. The Beginnings of Children's Literature The earliest of what came to be regarded as children's literature was first meant for adults. Comprehensive Database (CLCD CLCD Cleidocranial Dysplasia CLCD Children's Literature Comprehensive Database CLCD Center for Leadership, Citizenship and Democracy (University of the Philippines-Diliman) CLCD Cleidocranial Dysostosis ), an Internet-based acquisition, research, and reference service, to provide content enrichment enrichment Food industry The addition of vitamins or minerals to a food–eg, wheat, which may have been lost during processing. See White flour; Cf Whole grains. solutions for SchoolCAT(TM), Auto-Graphics' cataloging product serving K-12 school libraries. SchoolCAT subscribers now have the option to directly purchase these value-added services A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls and fax transmissions. and receive the product's expanded capability, including access to an additional one million quality MARC records. Librarians, teachers, and parents can now fully examine CLCD materials prior to making a purchase, ensuring that K-12 students receive the highest quality literary resources possible. With CLCD, SchoolCAT now provides subscribers with access to reviews, reading measurement scores, links to author/illustrator information, best book list entries, Horn Book Guide ratings, awards, honors & prize entries, state/provincial reading lists, correlations to SOLs, and curriculum tools. In addition, librarians, teachers, and parents can view over 300,000 reviews of children's books, multimedia, audio books, and more, from 35 sources. CLCD content also includes over 400,000 entries that identify national, state, and international awards back to the first Newbery award issued in 1922; more than 100 best books lists; and all state/provincial reading lists. "We are delighted to partner with Auto-Graphics to provide numerous quality reviews, MARC records and access to nearly 700,000 value added Value Added The enhancement a company gives its product or service before offering the product to customers. Notes: This can either increase the products price or value. listings to improve the service offerings for Auto-Graphics' SchoolCAT product," stated Marilyn Courtot, President of CLCD. "CLCD provides SchoolCAT with record content enrichment to help teachers, librarians, childcare providers, and parents make appropriate literary choices for children and young adults." "This product collaboration expands our SchoolCAT offering from a powerful cataloging tool to a comprehensive literary selection tool, helping to positively impact the quality of K-12 education," stated Paul Cope, Auto-Graphics' President. "The measurement parameters of programs such as Accelerated Reader Accelerated Reader (AR) is a daily progress monitoring software assessment in wide use by primary and secondary schools for monitoring the practice of reading, and it is created by Renaissance Learning, Inc. , Degrees of Reading Power, Lexile, and Reading Counts are incorporated into the bibliographic records, ensuring that school librarians have the most complete information possible." About the Children's Literature Comprehensive Database The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) is an Internet based acquisition, research, and reference service that offers 1,000,000 downloadable MARC records and more than 300,000 reviews of children's materials from 35 sources such as VOYA VOYA Voice of Youth Advocates VOYA Voyageurs National Park (US National Park Service) , Kirkus, Booklist, and ALAN. CLCD also contains 400,000 entries for awards, prizes, state and provincial reading lists, and 110,000 author/illustrator links -- all full-text searchable -- 37,000 book jackets Noun 1. book jacket - a paper jacket for a book; a jacket on which promotional information is usually printed dust cover, dust jacket, dust wrapper jacket - an outer wrapping or casing; "phonograph records were sold in cardboard jackets" , and much more. For more information, please visit the CLCD home page at http://www.childrenslit.com. About Auto-Graphics, Inc. Founded in 1950, Auto-Graphics provides a wide variety of library software services to clients who create, manage, publish, and access information using the Internet. Auto-Graphics has been a technology innovator for over 55 years, playing a leading role in translating the rapid developments in computer and data processing data processing or information processing, operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and computing) performed upon data in accordance with strictly defined procedures, such as recording and summarizing the financial transactions of a technology into advanced products and services used by more than 5,000 libraries in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . For more information, please visit www.auto-graphics.com. |
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