SRRT Resolutions 1997: Resolution on Cataloging-In-Publication for Self-Published Materials

Text of 1997 SRRT resolution, adopted at Midwinter Meeting, calling upon the Library of Congress to provide Cataloging-in-Publication data to all requesting publishers regardless of size or number of authors.

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Resolution on Cataloging-In-Publication for Self-Published Materials

Adopted at 1997 Midwinter Meeting

WHEREAS the Library of Congress refuses to provide Cataloging-In-Publication (CIP) data for “books paid for or subsidized by individual authors; books published by a house which published only the works of one author;” and

WHEREAS such titles have become an important segment of the small press movement, covering a broad range of topics and disciplines; and

WHEREAS the absence of CIP entries unquestionably limits the distribution, sale, and processing of self-published works and is so unfair and discriminatory, blocking these materials from a greater readership and wider attention; and

WHEREAS this policy, if in effect in 1885, would have denied a CIP entry to Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass; therefore be it

RESOLVED that the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±app calls upon the Library of Congress to provide CIP data to all requesting publishers regardless of size or number of authors.