Scope of the CIP Program



The CIP program limits eligibility to titles that are most likely to be widely acquired by the nation's libraries. These titles must be forthcoming monographs that include a U.S. place of publication on the title page. They must also be published by a U.S. publisher that maintains editorial and production offices in a U.S. city with a staff capable of answering substantive bibliographic questions that may arise during the cataloging process. The following are ineligible:
Books that are already published. Books without a U.S. city as place of publication on the title page. Books paid for or subsidized by individual authors. Books published on demand. Books published by firms that have published books by fewer than three different authors. Books for which a Library of Congress control number has been preassigned. E-Books (i.e. books published in electronic format). Computer files. Serials. Gift books. Most travel guides. Mass market paperbacks. Music scores. Most microforms. Certain textbooks. Vest pocket editions. Audiovisual materials including mixed media. Some volumes of some multipart sets. Instructional materials. Ephemeral and/or consumable materials. Translations except Spanish. Single articles reprinted from periodicals and other serials. Books whose title pages include words with diacritics occuring in modern Western European languages are eligible for Electronic CIP. Books with non-Western European diacritics are ineligible for Electronic CIP but may be submitted as conventional (paper) CIP applications.
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