Cataloging in Publication

[Marilyn McCroskey <mam417f@SMSU.EDU>]

AASL Members:

I am Marilyn McCroskey, AASL representative on the CIP (Cataloging in
Publication) Advisory Group for the Library of Congress. I'd like to pass
on some information about CIP. CIP is 30 years old. And CIP is going
electronic! See below.

CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION (CIP)

Cataloging in Publication is a bibliographic record prepared by the Library
of Congress for a book that has not yet been published. When the book is
published, the publisher includes the CIP data on the copyright page,
facilitating book processing for libraries and book dealers. The CIP record
includes bibliographic information about the book and subject headings and
classification numbers assigned by the Library of Congress.

The Library of Congress also distributes these records in machine-readable
form to large libraries, bibliographic services, and book vendors around
the world. Many of these organizations redistribute these records in
products and services designed to alert the library community to
forthcoming publications and to facilitate book ordering.

For more information on CIP, see the Web site:
http://cip.loc.gov/cip/

30 YEARS OF CIP

As a former school media specialist and now University cataloger and
library science instructor, over the years I have appreciated the efforts
of the Library of Congress to provide Cataloging in Publication data in
books. In the days when I typed thousands of catalog cards for materials in
my one-person school media center, I had no other source of cataloging
information but CIP and my own brain. CIP really helped! I know CIP
continues to help schools prepare cataloging records when it is not
possible to purchase MARC records or catalog card sets. At the University,
we use CIP records in OCLC for very new books, and this enables us to get
these books to the shelves quickly.

The LC CIP program is celebrating its 30th anniversary. The new CIP
bulletinboard is: http://www.bulletinboards.com/cips30th

THANKS FOR CIP

Please take a moment to look at the new CIP bulletinboard. The CIP division
works extraordinarily hard to catalog juvenile materials so that school
media specialists can have good cataloging records for their books. A word
of thanks to LC and to your favorite publishers for their partnership in
CIP would be much appreciated. Many such thank-you notes are posted on the
CIP bulletinboard. All of the thank you notes will be gathered together and
presented to CIP publishers attending ALA San Francisco in June 2001 and to
LC staff at the Library of Congress in July 2001.

ATTEND CIP EVENTS AT ALA IN SAN FRANCISCO

Friday, June 15, 2001, 5:00-7:00 p.m.
        Reception to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Cataloging in
Publication Program, hosted by Quality Books, at the San Francisco Marriott.

Monday, June 18, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
        ALCTS program on CIP, Moscone Convention Center, Room 306.
John Celli, Chief of the Cataloging in Publication Division; Craig Van
Dyck, Vice President of Manufacturing, Scientific, Technical, Medical
Publishing, at John Wiley & Sons; and Pat Thomas, 44-year veteran librarian
and Margaret Mann Citation recipient, will trace milestones of the CIP
program and present a new program, New Books. New Books will build on the
CIP program and provide publishers opportunities to post a wide array of
bibliographic information about forthcoming books on the Library of
Congress homepage while enabling readers to request these books directly
from the homepage.

SEND ME YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT CIP

As your representative on the CIP Advisory Group, I'd like to receive your
comments about Cataloging in Publication. I appreciate the opportunity to
serve as AASL representative.

Sincerely,
Marilyn McCroskey

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Marilyn McCroskey
Associate Professor
Head of Cataloging
Duane G. Meyer Library
Southwest Missouri State University
901 S. National
Springfield, MO 65804-0095
Ph. 417-836-4541
Fax 417-836-4764
E-mail mam417f@smsu.edu
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