(TIME SENSITIVE) Story Research -- Looking for Aquisition Librarians to Interview

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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005
From: Jenny McCune <jennymccune_at_imt.net>
Subject: Story Research -- Looking for Acquisition Librarians to 
Interview

I'm a freelance writer on assignment for the monthly newsletter of the 
Publishers Marketing Association (PMA). The PMA is a trade association 
for independent publishers. The PMA's web site is 
http://www.pma-online.org 
 
I am researching a story on the Library of Congress' CIP program. CIP 
stands for Cataloguing in Publication. A CIP record is a bibliographic 
record prepared by the Library of Congress that facilitates book 
processing for libraries and book distributors. 
 
Currently self-published works are not part of the CIP program. This 
has independent publishers upset since they feel that many self-
published titles would be of interest to library patrons. The author 
John Grisham has self published books. Steve Covey (as in Seven 
Habits...) has also self published.
 
Rather than "guess" at how acquisition librarians feel about this I 
would like to get comment to the following questions:
 
1) Do you use CIP bibliographic information to help purchase titles? 
2) Does a book not having CIP data inhibit its being purchased by a 
library? Why or why not?
3) If you do not use CIP data in selecting books for purchase, what 
information do you use (i.e. reviews, catalogues, etc.)
4) As an acquisition librarian how do you feel about self-published 
books as a category? 
 
Thank you, Jenny McCune, phone: 406-586-7044.

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