Publishers' CIP
PCIP: What is it?
PCIP is the acronym for Publishers' Cataloging-in-Publication. Using the same resources as the Library of Congress, our catalogers assign PCIP information to your materials including Library of Congress subject headings and LC and Dewey classification numbers, making your product stand out to librarians. The primary benefit of PCIP is that librarians use the information to quickly catalog materials they are adding to their collections. They can trust that the PCIP information accurately reflects the content of the material when Cassidy Cataloguing Services prepares the block. The results: Faster turn-around time for the publisher, the library, and the end-user.
Why trust Cassidy Cataloguing Services to produce it?
Many publishers hire Cassidy Cataloguing Services to assign PCIP information because of our quick turn-around time and history of top quality. Our speed allows publishers to rapidly alert the marketplace on the publication of a new work.
How does inclusion in a biliographic utility affect me?
Our newest feature, and one that will help both publisher and author alike, is Cassidy Cataloguing's contribution of all PCIPs we create to OCLC's WorldCat and all PCIPs from 2010 to current into SkyRiver. Since the Library of Congress changed their policy regarding PCIP creation Cassidy Cataloguing stepped in, making the process of getting PCIP data to libraries easy and inexpensive.
Advantage for the library
PCIP data will be available on WorldCat or SkyRiver before the library receives the item, allowing a member library to do copy cataloging instead of costly and time-consuming original cataloging on any given item.
Advantage for the author
Authors can enjoy the knowledge that a title's information will get to libraries quickly and correctly. OCLC's WorldCat and SkyRiver are the leading places for members to retrieve new catalog records. Now that Cassidy Cataloging is contributing PCIP records you can rest assured that librarians will get the correct information, and your item will be in the correct location upon arrival.
How long does it take and how much does it cost?
Turn-Around Time
Our cataloging staff takes the time to fully describe the work in question and apply multiple subject headings where appropriate. In most cases our turn-around time is under one week.
Pricing Information
- $150 pre-paid by check or money order for all first-time PCIP submissions.
- $125 for PCIP submissions thereafter. Clients will be invoiced for completed work, net 30. Standard PCIP records include: Author, Title, Imprint, Library of Congress subject headings or Juvenile subject headings, Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress classification numbers, ISBN and/or LCCN when provided by the publisher. Children's literature usually includes a summary.
- $150.00 for PCIP for materials written in languages other than English.
Our standard hourly rate for senior catalogers will apply to any additional work requested for completed PCIP, such as additional subject headings, other classification numbers, standard numbers and other bibliographic information not previously provided to Cassidy Cataloguing. Details of any such work will appear on the invoice.
What we require from PCIP customers
In order to produce a comprehensive PCIP, we ask that customers complete our Information Request Form and provide any other information pertinent to the description of the work, including the title page and verso. We also ask for complete contact and billing information (including fax numbers and email addresses).
PCIP requests may be emailed, faxed, or sent via regular mail. Completed PCIPs can then be emailed, faxed, or sent via regular mail—whichever works best for you.
PCIP Samples
Below is an example of a Cassidy Cataloguing PCIP block. Click on the number next to a component for further information.
1Veenendall, Jennifer.
Arnie and his school tools : simple sensory solutions that build success / Jennifer Veenendall. — 1st ed. — Shawnee Mission, Kan. : Autism Asperger Pub. Co., 2008.3
p. ; cm.4
5ISBN: 978-1-934575-15-4
Includes a brief overview of sensory processing as well as discussion questions.
Includes bibliographical references.
Audience: Ages 5–10.6
7Summary: Arnie uses a variety of tools and materials that provide his nervous system with the additional movement, touch, oral, and heavy work input that he needs to be more successful. He also uses tools to limit sound because he is very sensitive to auditory distractions.
81. Children with disabilities—Education. 2. Sensory integration dysfunction in children. 3. Occupational therapy for children. 4. Children with disabilities—Juvenile fiction. 5. [People with disabilities—Education. 6. People with disabilities—Fiction. 7. Senses and sensation—Fiction.] I. Title. II. Simple sensory solutions that build success.
- This is the first named author of the work.
- The Title Statement's colon denotes a subtitle.
- This imprint information indicates the location, publisher, and year of publication.
- This is the standard entry for a pre-publication Physical Description.
- The ISBN, previously 10 digits long, contains 13 digits as of January 2007.
- The Audience Entry denotes the intellectual level considered appropriate for the title. It is only used for children's books.
- The Summary is an optional component of children's book entries.
- These are the Library of Congress Subject Headings assigned to this title.
- The Library of Congress Classification Number (LCCN) for this title.
- The Dewey Decimal Number for this title. The “—dc22” denotes that it was created using the 22nd edition of the DDC.
- The Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN) or Preassigned Control Number (PCN) for this title.
- The projected publication date, listed in YYMM format.
The samples below represent a range of subjects for which we have created PCIP blocks, but please keep in mind that we can create a block for any book topic!
