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From: Hart, Brian <Brian.Hart>
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 17:02:36 -0500
I hate to say it, but I do not really know what CIP is, how it is put together, what part it plays in cataloging. How does the LC go about creating it? Is it put in some books, and not all? Is it only some fiction books that don't receive it? I have no stance in the discussion going on right now, because I really do not fully understand it. Any basic info. given would be a help. Thanks
hart?kota County Library-Galaxie
Message----From: Sue McGown [mailto:smcgown at sjs.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 12:28 PM To: Miriam Budin Cc: Subscribers of ccbc-net Subject: Re: [ccbc-net] CIP
I agree with Miriam's comments. I would like to see LC continue to provide CIP information. It is is useful and worth keeping. I think LC can do a better job than individual publishers in providing this information and I do hope it will continue.
Sue McGown Librarian, St. John's School Houston, TX smcgown at sjs.org
Miriam Budin wrote:
attention. I believe that the situation, though lousy, may not be quite as dire as her message suggests--if we act to correct it. Congress, there was a tremendous backlog of children's titles at LC and the omission of summaries and assigning of adult, rather than juvenile, subject headings to non-fiction titles
( control. They have been handling juvenile non-fiction this way for the past several months. (Did you notice?) It is supposedly a temporary solution to the overload of work. will resume. That begs the question, does LC lack catalogers with expertise in juvenile cataloging? (Else why use adult subject headings?) Have they lost staff? Are they replacing t h allow publishers to write the summaries of their own books. This "opportunity" has apparently been extended to a few publishers who are supposed to write the summaries, without hype r are accustomed. It is unclear to me who would be doing the writing (presumably not librarians), who would be supervising their efforts, and how closely, and with what potential remedie s in conjunction with those adult subject headings--would have a deleterious effect on our ability to do subject and keyword searching. independent libraries in the county share a computerized catalog and circulation system and make use of the central cataloging department which, in the past year, has been decimated by budget c terrific, but they are stretched extremely thin. I can change Dewey Decimal classifications at my library, if I choose, but I cannot change CIP summaries or subject headings. find that there is a historic continuity of expression and a recognizeable, detached, professional point of view to the LC cataloging. I'm concerned that this standard would be jeop a publishers. Publishers have their own, varying perspectives and aims, which are not always in concord with those of libraries and librarians. for non-fiction juvenile materials and hope that the Library of Congress will return forthwith to using juvenile subject headings. I am particularly leery of the prospect of LC losing c on...
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Received on Tue 04 May 2004 05:02:36 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 17:02:36 -0500
I hate to say it, but I do not really know what CIP is, how it is put together, what part it plays in cataloging. How does the LC go about creating it? Is it put in some books, and not all? Is it only some fiction books that don't receive it? I have no stance in the discussion going on right now, because I really do not fully understand it. Any basic info. given would be a help. Thanks
hart?kota County Library-Galaxie
Message----From: Sue McGown [mailto:smcgown at sjs.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 12:28 PM To: Miriam Budin Cc: Subscribers of ccbc-net Subject: Re: [ccbc-net] CIP
I agree with Miriam's comments. I would like to see LC continue to provide CIP information. It is is useful and worth keeping. I think LC can do a better job than individual publishers in providing this information and I do hope it will continue.
Sue McGown Librarian, St. John's School Houston, TX smcgown at sjs.org
Miriam Budin wrote:
attention. I believe that the situation, though lousy, may not be quite as dire as her message suggests--if we act to correct it. Congress, there was a tremendous backlog of children's titles at LC and the omission of summaries and assigning of adult, rather than juvenile, subject headings to non-fiction titles
( control. They have been handling juvenile non-fiction this way for the past several months. (Did you notice?) It is supposedly a temporary solution to the overload of work. will resume. That begs the question, does LC lack catalogers with expertise in juvenile cataloging? (Else why use adult subject headings?) Have they lost staff? Are they replacing t h allow publishers to write the summaries of their own books. This "opportunity" has apparently been extended to a few publishers who are supposed to write the summaries, without hype r are accustomed. It is unclear to me who would be doing the writing (presumably not librarians), who would be supervising their efforts, and how closely, and with what potential remedie s in conjunction with those adult subject headings--would have a deleterious effect on our ability to do subject and keyword searching. independent libraries in the county share a computerized catalog and circulation system and make use of the central cataloging department which, in the past year, has been decimated by budget c terrific, but they are stretched extremely thin. I can change Dewey Decimal classifications at my library, if I choose, but I cannot change CIP summaries or subject headings. find that there is a historic continuity of expression and a recognizeable, detached, professional point of view to the LC cataloging. I'm concerned that this standard would be jeop a publishers. Publishers have their own, varying perspectives and aims, which are not always in concord with those of libraries and librarians. for non-fiction juvenile materials and hope that the Library of Congress will return forthwith to using juvenile subject headings. I am particularly leery of the prospect of LC losing c on...
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