CLCD 4.0 Beta Now Available to Member Subscribers

We’re excited to bring you CLCD 4.0 Beta! We’re busy tying up loose ends and tweaking the database. We’d love your opinions and thoughts as we bring it all together. You can provide input via the FEEDBACK link at the top right in Version 4.0. If you’ll be in Chicago for the ALA Midwinter Conference please stop by and say hi! We’ll be in booth #1915.

Beta/Playground rules:

1. We are working through the final stages of a major data merge. What you see today may not be what you see tomorrow.  But, still let us know your thoughts.
2. No data stored in CLCD Beta 4.0 (Reading List, Saved Searches etc.) will be carried over to the release edition.
3. We are aware of and working on search filtering issues.
4. Use your current CLCD.com credentials to login into

Visible changes will be:

1. Unified/Merged Book Detail Records

Provides a more comprehensive view of each title and combines multiple publications of the same title into one view

Shows progression of variant publications through time, along with cover art, reviews, reading level and publication information

2. Improved Search Results Ranking

• Weighted more appropriately on all the fields so that accurate results bubble to the top
• Ability to sort in ascending and descending order (author, title, Lexile and publication date)

3. Introduction of icons for awards and reviews in the left Search Results panel

4. Coming Soon

• Grade Range limiters
• Addition of Awards & Prizes Database (Acquired from Children’s Book Council)
• Google Book Previews
• NetGalley Links for available titles

Under the hood changes:

1. New Server Platform

   • Infinitely scalable (for inclusion in State and Regional Databases)

2. New Database & Engine

   • Designed to more easily add new content sources
   • Ability to fine-tune search results ranking as the CLCD database and content grows and changes
   • Facilitates easy addition of new professional Review Sources
   • Facilitates daily and/or weekly content updates
   • Facilitates easy connectivity with Discovery Systems

3. New flexible layout options for ILS and Book Vendor partners.

Features and functionality that you’ll find in CLCD 4.0 are a direct result of feedback from our Advisory Board as well as from you, our member-subscribers. Be on the lookout for new and exciting content and features as we move forward. And as always, we look forward to serving you.

Sincerely,

Bill Payne
Vice President, Marketing & Sales
888-611-2523 x32

P.S. As always, we welcome your comments, via feedback on our website or via Email, Facebook, or Twitter.