NEWS RELEASE
Worldwide Books is pleased to announce the launch of its newly formatted
and expanded Web site. Our new site uses the same URL as our former site
(
www.worldwide-artbooks.com), so librarians who have bookmarked our
site will be directed automatically to the new site.
As before, Worldwide's Web site permanently retains records for every
title that has been selected for inclusion in our approval plan program
since the company's founding in 1962, making it an invaluable research
tool for librarians, art historians, curators and students. The site
currently encompasses records for more than 90,000 titles, including
hundreds of forthcoming titles scheduled to be released in spring 2010.
More than 28,000 backlist and frontlist titles are currently in stock and
available for immediate purchase, including many exhibition catalogues
from the 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s that are essentially out of print and
would be difficult to obtain elsewhere. To facilitate purchasing,
searches can easily be structured to omit out-of-print and out-of-stock
titles from search results.
A Fresh New Look and Enhanced Search
Options
The Basic Search option, formerly a separate search
screen, is now incorporated into our home page as a "Quick
Search." This simple search tool is convenient for users wishing to
locate a specific title based on title keywords, artist, author or
ISBN.
The powerful new Advanced Search screen (an upgrade to our former site's
Extended Search screen) includes several new features that will make it
even more useful to librarians interested in efficiently searching or
filtering our monthly list of new titles--or our entire database--to
locate titles on specific topics or themes:
As before, in addition to allowing filtered searches based on the content
of each publication as catalogued by Worldwide's staff (including
artistic medium, historical period, region and country represented,
artist, topic and style), searches can also be filtered based on date of
publication, first venue (for exhibition catalogues), publisher,
distributor and/or series title. Some useful new features of the Advanced
Search screen include:
Type-of-Publication Filter: Towards the bottom of the Advanced Search
screen is a new filter that allows users to either omit or include
certain types of publications from search results (trade titles;
university press publications; catalogues published exclusively by
museums and galleries; etc.).
Special Series Search Option: Although serial publications can often be
successfully located by searching for the series title in the "First
Exhibitor/Publisher/Organizer/Series Title" field, a new feature on
our Web site offers a special pull-down menu that lists dozens of
important biennials, triennials and other types of special serial
publications. This pull-down menu facilitates retrieving titles
associated with a specific recurring exhibition or series, even if the
publisher has not been bibliographically consistent in their citation of
the series title from one publication to another.
Other New Features
Exact-Phrase and Partial-String
Search Options in Addition to Our Traditional Keyword Searches:
In addition to exact keyword searches, users now can also conduct
exact-phrase searches (using quotation marks around a specific phrase) or
partial-string searches (using an asterisk to represent any number of
miscellaneous alphanumeric characters):
Example: "Museum of Modern Art"
(exact-phrase search that could be used in the Title Field or the
Exhibitor/Publisher/Organizer/Series field)
Example: Abstract*
(partial-string search to find all titles that include such words as
Abstract, Abstracted, Abstraction, Abstracting,
etc.)
Multiple Item or ISBN Searches / Results Can Be
Downloaded in Spreadsheet Format
A new, separate search screen now allows users to search multiple
ISBNs or multiple Worldwide item numbers simultaneously. The records
retrieved using this option are displayed in spreadsheet format (in
alphabetical order) for the benefit of users who may wish to copy and
paste the bibliographic information into their own spreadsheet for
further manipulation or sorting, or in order to check the records
electronically against their holdings. Note: the Advanced Search screen
also now allows for multiple ISBNs to be searched simultaneously;
however, when using the Advanced Search screen for that purpose, the
results are displayed in our standard bibliographic format rather than in
spreadsheet format.
Expanded Online Information on Worldwide's
Services
The Web site now provides more complete information on our
Approval Plan programs, including an overview of the program, annual cost
estimates for our standard plans, and a selection-profile worksheet to
assist librarians who may be interested in establishing a new approval
plan.
A new online submission form provides a convenient means for museums and
other publishers to send us timely information on new titles they have
published that might be appropriate for Worldwide to include in its
listings and approval-plan program.
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In the coming months we plan to expand the site even further and will
eventually offer a customer interface that will enable clients to review
their order history and account information online, and to identify
forthcoming titles that are scheduled to be included in their upcoming
approval-plan shipments. In the meantime, we welcome inquiries from
anyone who has questions about the new site, or would like additional
guidance in using the search features. We would be more than happy to
offer one-on-one assistance by phone or by email.
Sincerely,
Kelly Fiske
Mr. Kelly M. Fiske, President
Worldwide Books
1001 West Seneca Street
Ithaca, NY 14850 USA
Phone (607) 272-9200, ext. 16
Fax (607) 272-0239
US & Canadian orders 1-800-473-8146
www.worldwide-artbooks.com