Selected Web sites for Collection Development

Books (and other formats):

Amazon.com

Barnesandnoble.com

U.S. Government Online Bookstore

 U.S. Government Publications-Bernan

Borders.com

ISBN Search
Enter a book's ISBN or UPC and select an online bookstore.

WorldCat -  Over 50 million records of books, films, Web resources, and other material owned by libraries worldwide

Book Reviews:

Amazon.com

Barnesandnoble.com

Favorite Teenage Angst Books

New York Times Book Review (need to complete free registration first)

Reader's Robot

TeenLit.com Book Reviews

Foreign Language:

Alapage--French

Casalini Libri--Italian

Harrassowitz--German

Latin American Bookstore--Spanish

Microforms:

UMI (Bell & Howell)

Primary Source Microfilm

Chadwyck-Healey

Music:

CDconnection.com
The entire current catalogs of all  U.S. major labels, plus many independent labels and imports.

CDNOW.com

Out-of-Print Sites:

abebooks.com
Source for searching and locating out-of-print books.  5300 booksellers.  15 million titles listed.

Alibris
Warehouse and network of out-of-print dealers.

Bibliofind
Searchable inventory of over 10 million out-of-print books offered by thousands of booksellers.

Video and Film:

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Internet Movie Database

Movies Unlimited

PBS Videos:  http://www.shoppbs.org

WorldCat (through OCLC FirstSearch). Access is limited to St. Michael's (MIKENET ) users.  A good source for bibliographic information for hard-to-find videos and films.

 

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