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NLM Participates in "Electronic Cataloging in Publication"
(E-CIP) Program
New System Will Speed Processing of Bibliographic
Data
On September 15, 2000, NLM catalogers put 21st century library
technology to work and produced their first electronic cataloging in
publication (E-CIP) records. "Participation in the E-CIP program
will shorten the time it takes to make NLM's bibliographic data for
forthcoming U.S. publications available to the biomedical library
community," notes Christa Hoffmann, Head of NLM's Cataloging
Section. "And for the first time we also will be able to provide
table of contents data for some books in this program."
This event is the outcome of cooperative efforts between Library
of the Congress Cataloging in Publication Division, the NLM
Cataloging Section, involving each respective library's automated
systems staff. The E-CIP process is an extension to the Cataloging
in Publication (a.k.a. CIP) program that serves the nation's
libraries by providing cataloging for books in advance of
publication. Publishers participating in the CIP program submit the
full text of eligible publications to the Library of Congress (LC).
LC forwards biomedical- and health sciences-related text to the
NLM for creation of the bibliographic record. Once the bibliographic
record (known as CIP data) is created for each publication it is
sent to the publisher who in turn prints the record on the verso of
the title page. In the E-CIP program, pre-publication galleys are
submitted in SGML format and transmitted via the Internet to LC.
Biomedical and related health sciences publications are
automatically forwarded to NLM where the appropriate records are
created and transmitted to LC via ftp. This process eliminates
mailing and handling paper and accelerates the availability of CIP
records by several weeks. In the coming year, NLM plans to assist
the Library of Congress in publicizing this program to the
biomedical publishing community. |
