Hi Ben,
Thank you for bring this record to our attention. This is no longer in the prepublication status because it has been received and undergone CIP verification, which is the process for updating and completing the CIP record to make it a full level record. The edition statement likely came from the CIP data application and was not corrected at the CIP verification stage. So, this record is no longer truly a CIP record in the sense of being prepublication status (encoding level 8) because someone has looked at it compare the published book to the CIP bibliographic record and updated the record accordingly. The verifier did not catch the edition statement, and we can correct that.
CIP is a source of information in that one needs to keep in mind that it is created before the work is finalized and published. I would hope that libraries use it in their workflows as way to identify CIP materials that would have a record for use.
Thanks
Caroline
Caroline Saccucci
CIP and Dewey Section Head and Program Manager
U.S. Program, Law & Literature Division
Acquisitions & Bibliographic Access Directorate
Library of Congress
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Subject: [PCCLIST] CIP as source of information?
Hi,
LCCN 2014031894, OCLC # 894777583
Race talk and the conspiracy of silence : understanding and facilitating difficult dialogues on race / Derald Wing Sue. Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2015]
is a PCC encoding level blank records with a somewhat mysterious 250 field that reads:
250 \\ $a 1.
Looking at the book I can find no source for this edition statement other than the CIP block. I was under the impression that CIP should not be used as source of information, is this incorrect?
Thanks,
Ben
Benjamin Abrahamse
Cataloging Coordinator
Acquisitions and Discovery Enhancement
MIT Libraries
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