Find the Right Books. Make Better Decisions. Support Every Reader.
CLCD gives librarians, educators, schools, and universities a trusted place to discover, evaluate, teach, and manage children’s and young adult literature. Search more than 1.3 million titles and bring professional reviews, awards, age guidance, reading information, collection tools, and powerful discovery together in one platform.
CLCD Enterprise Version 8
Version 8 strengthens CLCD as a decision-support platform by combining trusted professional content with new Curated AI Insights, enhanced age and grade guidance, clearer context, and faster workflows.
AI Traffic Light Indicators
Quick visual guidance to help identify titles that may need closer review at different age and grade levels.
AI Review Summaries
Fast context from professional reviews, including sentiment, recurring themes, word maps, and notable observations.
Enhanced Age & Grade Guidance
Multi-parameter guidance designed to provide a more complete view of age appropriateness.
Nuance Guidance
Additional context that helps explain why a title may deserve closer attention.
Faster Discovery
Search, filtering, navigation, and workflow improvements that help users reach relevant titles sooner.
Award Analysis
Coming soon: deeper insight into award recognition patterns and what they may reveal about a title.
Included at no additional cost for the first six months: Version 8’s new AI-driven capabilities are free during the introductory period. Afterward, they are planned to be available as an optional low-cost add-on.
One Trusted Database. Three Ways to Use It.
CLCD’s products are built on the same deep children’s literature database while giving each audience the tools and experience that fit its work.
Enterprise PreK–12
Our most comprehensive platform for academic institutions, public libraries, schools, and professionals who need depth, precision, and flexible research tools.
- Advanced Search across 50+ fields
- Professional reviews, awards, age guidance, and title-level context
- Collaborative Reading Lists and saved searches
- Local Collection Management and OPAC linking
- Version 8 Curated AI Insights and decision support
QuickFind PreK–12
A visual discovery experience for schools and public libraries that makes it easy for students, educators, librarians, and patrons to find books by topic, age, award, and more.
- 375 general topics across 37 super topics
- 225 STEM topics across 22 STEM super topics
- Age bands from early childhood through teen
- Advanced Search and Award Search
- Local collection filtering and reading lists
Class-Shelf Plus
A purpose-built classroom collection management system that helps districts upload, review, approve, and share classroom libraries with far less manual effort.
- ISBN scanning and bulk title uploads
- Role-based workflows for district, school, media, and teacher users
- Traffic Light guidance and Sensitive Materials markers
- Guided approval designed to reduce manual review
- Community visibility for approved classroom collections
Why Professionals Choose CLCD
Independent Professional Content
Evaluate titles using professional reviews, awards, bibliographic data, age guidance, and other evidence—not sales copy alone.
Depth Beyond Discovery
Move from finding a book to understanding it, comparing it, building lists, supporting instruction, or making a collection decision.
Tools for Real Workflows
Use advanced filters, collaborative lists, local collection tools, exports, OPAC links, challenge alerts, and administrator controls.
Decision Support, Not Decision Replacement
New AI-assisted tools help surface context and focus attention while keeping professional judgment and local policy at the center.
Built for the People Who Work with Children’s Literature
Universities & Colleges
Support children’s literature, education, and library science programs with a professional research environment students can use for coursework and future practice.
- Build text sets and thematic reading lists
- Study professional reviewing and award recognition
- Explore age, grade, topic, format, and reading-program data
- Teach collection development and title evaluation
Public Libraries
Give Children’s and Teen Services teams a centralized resource for readers’ advisory, collection development, programming, and title evaluation.
- Discover titles across ages, genres, topics, and awards
- Use Local Collection Management to focus on your holdings
- Support book challenge review with professional evidence
- Collaborate through shared lists and saved research
Schools & Districts
Help teachers, librarians, media specialists, and administrators discover books, evaluate age appropriateness, and manage collections with greater consistency.
- Support curriculum and classroom text selection
- Evaluate titles using reviews, age guidance, and award history
- Respond to title questions with stronger context
- Extend oversight to classroom libraries with Class-Shelf Plus
The Information You Need, Together in One Place
- Professional reviews from leading review sources
- Award winners, honors, nominations, and award history
- Best Books and recommended-title lists
- Age and grade guidance
- Accelerated Reader and Scholastic Reading Counts information
- Subjects, genres, topics, formats, and bibliographic data
- Challenged Book Alerts and supporting title information
- Collaborative Reading Lists and saved searches
- Local Collection Management and catalog linking
- Curated AI Insights in Version 8
Owl Tip: Choosing the Right CLCD Product
Start with Enterprise when you need deep research and evaluation tools, QuickFind when you want visual discovery for readers and students, and Class-Shelf Plus when your district needs classroom library oversight.
See What CLCD Can Do for Your Institution
Whether your priority is research, teaching, readers’ advisory, collection development, classroom library oversight, or responding to title questions, CLCD can be configured around the way your institution works.
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