1 Jun 17:54
Re: The LC CIP Program
CIP records are indeed very helpful for libraries, vendors and publishers alike. I think that the organizational restructuring going on at LC that Gene K. described doesn't mean that CIP records will go away. It might just mean that the processes for producing them will take different routes and forms. One of the recommendations of the WG for the Future of Bibliographic is to use bibliographic data early on in the publishing cycle which is what the CIP program is already doing. The current workflow has publishers send full-texts of their eligible publications to LC and then LC catalogers create CIP records for these which publishers print on the verso of the title page and which are also distributed to large libraries, bibliographic utilities and materials/content vendors for upgrading and/or redistribution. But with the more dynamic nature of digital publishing that we have now, we also need to have a matching dynamic workflow where pre-pub or pre-print bibliographic data can be captured/harvested and edited/upgraded as the content goes through the full digital publishing cycle. Perhaps the organizational structure at LC that previously handled the CIP operation isn't flexible enough for all the changes in publishing life cycles that libraries have to deal with now and in the coming years. Glenda Claborne Unemployed Librarian *********************************************************************** E-mail AUTOCAT listowners: autocat-request@... Search AUTOCAT archives: http://listserv.syr.edu/archives/autocat.html Selected AUTOCAT commands: http://www.cwu.edu/~dcc/Autocat/options.html By posting messages to AUTOCAT, the author does not cede copyright(Continue reading)
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