Acquisitions Resources (Incl. Collection Development & Serials):

  1. African American Booksellers
  2. African American Literature Book Club
  3. AuthorChats.com (features Live Chats with Authors of Children's Books)
  4. Banned Books Online
  5. BookBrowse.com (publishes Chapter Long Excerpts from Most of the Current Bestsellers, plus Excerpts from Hundreds of the Best Recent Fiction & Non-fiction Titles)
  6. BookFinder.com (Search for New, Out of Print and Used Books)
  7. The BookHive (Guide to Children's Literature & Books)
  8. BookPage (Book Reviews)
  9. Books In Print® (BIP; For Subscribers Only)
  10. Books-On-Line (Search by Subject, Author, Title or Keyword)
  11. BookSpot (Book Reviews, Reading Lists, Best Sellers, Authors, Publishers & Book Stores)
  12. Bookwire (Bestseller Lists & Reviews)
  13. Choice Reviews Online (for Subscribers)
  14. Collection Development (incl. Policies)
  15. Computer Companies (Hardware, Software & Other Online Resources/Services)
  16. Federal Express (FedEx)
  17. Go On Girl! Book Club (National Reading Group for Black Women)
  18. Information Today, Inc.
  19. The Librarian's Yellow Pages
  20. Library Automation Vendors
  21. Library Equipment, Furniture & Supplies (Vendors)
  22. Mosaicbooks.com (Showcases the Latest in Black & Hispanic Literature)
  23. The Online Guide To African American Books (incl. Reviews)
  24. Publishers, Jobbers, Bookstores & Information Vendors
  25. PubList.com (Directory of More Than 150,000 Publications & 8000 Newspapers; Ulrich'sT International Periodicals Directory)
  26. The Sisters and Brothers of HotLanta Book Club
  27. SOLINET
  28. Software and Database License Review
  29. Today's Book Club (by Today Show on NBC)
  30. UPS
  31. Visibooks (Computer Books for Visual Learners)
  32. SEE ALSO Cataloging Resources
  33. SEE ALSO Reference Services (incl. Online Catalogs & Databases)
  34. SEE ALSO Other Library Resources (incl. Libraries)

Collection Development (incl. Policies & Weeding):

  1. Collection Development at Univ. of Kentucky Libraries
  2. Collection Development & Evaluation Section (CODES)
  3. Collection Development of Electronic Resources at Yale Univ.
  4. Collection Development Policies for Government Documents (a List of Various Sites, plus Links)
  5. Collection Management Manual at Univ. of Florida Libraries
  6. Weeding (Why?)

Library Equipment, Furniture & Supplies (Vendors):

  1. Archival Products
  2. Brodart Co.
  3. Demco Online
  4. Displays for Schools, Inc.
  5. Eiki International, Inc. (Projection & Display Technology)
  6. Gaylord Brothers
  7. Highsmith Inc.
  8. International Library Furniture Co.
  9. Kapco Library Products
  10. LibraryTools.com (Training Tools for Libraries; LC Easy Software)
  11. Shelving Direct
  12. Texwood Furniture Corporation
  13. Vernon Library Supplies
  14. Windmill Distribution Limited
  15. SEE ALSO Retailers (incl. Department Stores)

Publishers, Jobbers, Bookstores & Information Vendors:

  1. 21 North Main (Seller of Used, Rare, Out-of-Print & Antiquarian Books)
  2. A.D.A.M. Software, Inc. (Anatomy, Physiology & Radiology Software for Classroom Integration)
  3. Academic Press (Books & Journals)
  4. AddALL Book Search & Price Comparison
  5. Addison Wesley Longman
  6. Advanced Book Exchange (Used, Out of Print, Rare, Antiquarian & Hard to Find Books)
  7. African American Booksellers
  8. African Online Shop (African Books, Music, Films, Fabric & Fashion from Africa)
  9. Amazon.com
  10. Ambassador Book Service (ABS)
  11. Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc.
  12. Arts-Books (Store for Performing Arts)
  13. Baker & Taylor
  14. Bantam Doubleday Dell
  15. Barnes and Noble
  16. Best Web Buys (Search for Books, Music and Videos & Compare Prices at Online Bookstores)
  17. Blackwell's Book Services
  18. BookSense.com (Independent Bookstores)
  19. BookWeb (Guide to Bookstores)
  20. Border's Books and Music
  21. Brodart Company
  22. Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA)
  23. Cambridge University Press
  24. Carolina Academic Press (incl. African & African American Studies)
  25. Chadwyck-Healey, Inc. (Publisher of Innovative Scholarly Reference & Full-Text Databases)
  26. Curious George Goes to WordsWorth
  27. DIALOG Corporation
  28. EBSCO
  29. Eastern Book Company
  30. Emery-Pratt Company
  31. Fatbrain.com (The Internet's Most Comprehensive Professional Bookstore)
  32. Gale Group (incl. Gale Research, IAC & Primary Source Media)
  33. H. W. Wilson
  34. The Happy Bookseller
  35. HarperCollins
  36. Infonautics Corporation
  37. Ingram Library Services
  38. Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)
  39. Knowledge Adventure (Learning Software for Kids)
  40. Lee & Low Books Publishers (Multicultural Literature for Children; incl. African Americans)
  41. LEXIS-NEXIS (Online Legal, News & Business Information Services)
  42. Library Video Company (Educational Videos, CD-ROMs, DVD & Instructional Media Distributors)
  43. Manufacturers' News, Inc. (MNI; Directories, Databases, Etc. of Manufacturers)
  44. Marquis Who's Who
  45. McGraw-Hill Professional Books
  46. NISC: National Information Services Corporation (BiblioLine, CD-ROM Products, Abstract and Index Services, Etc.)
  47. NTC-Contemporary Publishing Group
  48. National Association of Social Workers Press (NASW)
  49. New Intelligence Inc. (Computer-based Textbook; Software for Improving Reading, Writing & Reasoning Skills, Etc.; incl. Interactive American History & Outstanding African Americans)
  50. OVID Technologies, Inc.
  51. photo-eye books & prints (Photography Bookstore & Gallery)
  52. Prentice Hall Publishing Company
  53. Primary Source Media
  54. Project Muse (Provider of Subscription Access to Full-Text of 40+ Scholarly Journals by the Johns Hopkins University Press)
  55. ProQuest Information and Learning (Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch, Etc.)
  56. Quantum Books (a Professional & Technical Bookstore)
  57. R.R. Bowker
  58. Routledge: Military, Strategic and Security Studies
  59. Sage Publications, Inc.
  60. St. Martin's Press
  61. Scholastic Inc. (Publisher & Distributor of Children's Books, Classroom & Professional Magazines, Etc.)
  62. SilverPlatter (Supplier of Bibliographic & Full-Text Databases)
  63. Simon & Schuster
  64. SIRS, Inc. (incl. Full-Text Electronic Databases)
  65. Syndetic Solutions (Provider of Specialized Bibliographic Data to Producers of Electronic Databases)
  66. TMCT (Technology Marketing Corporation; focused Only on the Fields of Telecom/Datacom Convergence)
  67. Textbook Land (Compare College Textbook Prices)
  68. Thomson Publishing Group
  69. UMI (ProQuest Information and Learning, Serials in Microform, Newspapers in Microform, Etc.)
  70. VarsityBooks.com (Speedy Delivery, Discounted Textbooks by Regions, Bestsellers, Etc.)
  71. W.T. Cox Subscriptions Inc.
  72. West Group (Complete Legal Research)
  73. SEE ALSO Acquisitions Resources (Incl. Collection Development & Serials)

African American Booksellers:

  1. African Bookstore (African American Bookstore)
  2. All Africa Books (An Online Bookstore Dedicated to Books about Africa & Africans)
  3. AmberBooks.com (African-American Self-Help/Career Books)
  4. Black Classic Press
  5. BlackBookPlus.com
  6. C&B Books Distribution Center
  7. Cushcity.com (African American Bookstore)
  8. MasterWorks Production (Books, Etc. of the Black Experience)
  9. Nia Publishing Co. Inc. (Bibles, Children Music, Etc.)
  10. Positive Images Online Books, Inc. (African-Centered; incl. K-12)
  11. Shrine of the Black Madonna Bookstore & Cultural Center
  12. Three Dimensional Publishing (Incl. Africentric Clip Art)
  13. Words (An African American Neighborhood Bookstore)
  14. Other African American Owned & Independent Bookstores

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