Document Library: Standards: ISBN-13

ISBN-13: For Libraries....

CIP Program Policy in Regard to Implementation of ISBN-13

Prior to October 2004, the CIP Division will not include ISBN-13s either in distributed CIP records or non-distributed ibc (initial bibliographic control) Preassigned Control Number records.

For books processed through the CIP program prior to October 2004 projected to be published during the interim period (January 2005 through December 2006), publishers themselves are encouraged to add ISBN-13s to the CIP data printed in the book according to the IIA implementation guidelines. ISBN-13s that appear in the published books will be added to CIP bibliographic records upon receipt of the books at LC.

Beginning Oct. 1, 2004, for CIP bibliographic records and other bibliographic records, LC will group pairs of 10 and 13 digit ISBNs by manifestation in repeated MARC 21 020 fields, the ISBN 13 preceding the associated ISBN-10.

Beginning Oct. 1, 2004, the CIP Division has agreed temporarily to adopt the style for printing ISBN pairs recommended by the IIA implementation guidelines (i.e., printed on separate lines one pair beneath the other) rather than following the standard style for printed CIP data (i.e., printed one after the other as part of a single paragraph of the CIP data, each instance of an ISBN separated from the preceding instance by a space-dash-space).

Beginning October 1, 2004, although all ISBN pairs provided by publishers will be input into the CIP bibliographic record, to accommodate publisher title page verso space concerns, no more than two ISBN pairs will be provided in the CIP data supplied to publishers to be printed on the verso of the title page. To indicate that additional ISBN pairs are present in the bibliographic record beyond those provided in the printed CIP data, "[etc.]" will be printed on the line under the last ISBN provided in the data. The standard paragraph style will be retained in instances when a publisher provides only ISBN-10s.

Upon full implementation of ISBN-13 ca. January 2007, anticipating that publishers will supply only an ISBN-13 for each manifestation, the style for printing multiple instances will revert to that of standard printed CIP data (i.e., one after the other as part of a single paragraph of the CIP data, each instance of an ISBN separated from the preceding instance by a space-dashspace). All ISBNs provided in the CIP bibliographic record will be included in the CIP data.

In conjunction with updates to the CIP application form, BISAC will also work with the Network Development and MARC Standards Office at LC to facilitate updates to the MARC record format.