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the same ti tle al ready in the da tabase, cat aloged by the Li brary of
Congress. The lo cal li brary code or sym bol is then en tered and the
cat a log ing is done.
In 1996, the Li brary of Con gress started a co operative ar rangement
called Pro gram for Co op er a tive Cat a loging. Cur rently, the mem ber -
ship, made up of mostly li braries with large collections, to tals 340.
Membership con tributes not only to the orig inal MARC re cords for
monographs (books) and se rials; but also to name au thorities, sub ject
au thor i ties, and clas si fi ca tion pro pos als. As a re sult, the bib lio graphic
records from the MARC tapes that are dis played on the screen may not
have orig inated from the Li brary of Con gress, but from a par ticipating
in sti tu tion. Li braries uni ver sally ben e fit from this vast da ta base of
high-qual ity cat a log ing.

Cataloging in Publication (CIP)

In most books pub lished in the United States, cataloging in forma-
tion can be found on the copy right page, which is the back of the title
page. This is called Cataloging in Pub lication, a pro ject started by the Li -
brary of Con gress in 1971. Over one mil lion CIP re cords have been pro -
cessed, and 4,500 Amer i can pub lish ers cur rently par tic i pate in this
program. Un der the agree ment, be fore a book is pub lished, the pub lisher
sends the gal ley proofs, or gal ley sur rogates, such as ti tle page, copyright
page, se ries page, ta ble of con tents, and sam ple chap ters to in dicate sub -
ject cov erage, to the Library of Con gress. The Li brary of Con gress cat a-
logs the ma terial within ten days and sends the cataloging in formation
back to the pub lisher so that the bib liographic re cord can be in cluded and
printed on the copyright page of the book when the book is pub lished.
This pro ject ben e fits the li brar ies enor mously be cause the in for ma tion
comes si multaneously with the book, and no fur ther search ing for cat a-
log ing in for ma tion is nec es sary. Uti lized prop erly, CIP is the best
source for copy cat aloging.
Because the cataloging is done be fore the book is pub lished, in for-
mation on the full de scription of the book, such as pag ing and other
physical de scription, can not be in cluded. Also, when the book is pub -
lished on a later date, the ti tle, subtitle, and the date of publication
may be changed. The copy cat aloger must be very careful in check ing