FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Marilyn Courtot CLCD Company, LLC (301) 469-2070 marilyn@childrenslit.com CLCD HITS THE 100,000 MARK Bethesda MD - September 20, 2002 - CLCD Company, LLC announces that its Children's Literature Comprehensive Database now contains over 100,000 reviews of children's book and media materials. In addition to the most current reviews, CLCD has added backlist reviews from a variety of its sources. Booklist reviews for the past ten years, files from CCBC Choices since 1996, and the Horn Book Audio reviews from 1998 are included. More than 1,200 reviews and 1,000 MARC records are added monthly. These reviews cross all publishers' lines and provide information on both trade and series titles focused for the school and library markets. "We are pleased to be at the forefront of offering this important resource of both current and retrospective reviews to children's literature professionals," stated Marilyn Courtot, President of the CLCD Company. "The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database is the answer to time, space and budgetary constraints. What used to take hours to research is now available in minutes. Librarians and media specialists can now access reviews as they are augmenting or weeding their collections. When books are challenged, they can turn to the CLCD and quickly retrieve the necessary information. With more than 160,000 entries for awards, prizes, best book lists and the like, CLCD allows easy access to this material for anyone conducting research in the children's book field. In addition, the multiple reviews provide varied perspectives and assist in locating hard-to-find reviews of series and small press books," Courtot added. The CLCD Company offers a free trial at its website, www.childrenslit.com. Subscriptions are now available in several ways. A single annual subscription, which provides unlimited searching and use of the data for twelve months, is priced at $249.95. Special pricing for multiple buildings, school districts, or library systems is available. Individuals may subscribe for a 30-day period, priced at $29.95. About the Children's Literature Comprehensive Database The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) is a web-based service that greatly speeds and simplifies the process of locating information about children's books, videos, and audio books ranging from the earliest board books to novels and nonfiction for young adults. The database offers full text search capability of approximately 700,000 records in MARC format and more than 100,000 reviews from twenty-one reliable sources. ###