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all the el e ments when ex am in ing and tran scrib ing the CIP in for ma -
tion and make the nec essary changes.
When a book with CIP in formation is pub lished, the Library of
Congress will up grade the CIP in for ma tion to the full cat a log ing
level and replace the old, in complete, temporary re cord with the new
one. The LC staff com pares the pre pub li ca tion cat a log ing re cord with
the bib liographic el ements in the pub lished book and makes nec es-
sary changes to en sure that the re vised re cord ac curately de scribes
the pub lication and all the phys ical de scription el ements added to the
new re cord. All the CIP re cords and the sub sequent ver ified re cords
are en tered as part of the MARC record da tabase.
Recently, the Li brary of Con gress in stituted a pro gram in which
pub lish ers can trans mit the needed in for ma tion elec tron i cally to the
Library of Con gress, and vice versa. Named ECIP, for elec tronic cat -
a log ing in pub li ca tion, the pro ject pro motes ef fi ciency and re duces
pa per work, with li brar ies as the main ben e fi cia ries.
To ac cel er ate the up grad ing of CIP re cords, the OCLC (On line
Computer Li brary Cen ter) has established an of fice at the Ac ademic
Book Cen ter, staffed with OCLC cat a log ers. Re cently, the OCLC has
accepted the up graded CIP re cords of the Yan kee Ped dler, a book
dealer, as well. Up grading re cords “on-site” at the book ven dors has
added an other el ement of ef ficiency to the pro cess and has re sulted in
wide spread use.
Figure 7.2 is an ex ample of CIP in for ma tion re pro duced from the
copyright page of a book—the first edi tion of this textbook, Cat a -
loging and Clas si fi ca tion for Li brary Tech ni cians. From the ex am-
ple, we can see that in formation on many elements needs to be added.
Still, you will find the main and added en tries, the sub ject headings,
and the ap plicable clas sification num ber, all of which will speed your
cat a log ing pro cess.

Commercial Sources

If re quested, com mercial book ven dors such as Bro-Dart and
Baker & Taylor provide card sets at a min imum fee for all the ma teri-
als or dered from them. The sets are complete with cataloging in forma-
tion and come with the books or other type of me dia. Also, such li brary