Cassidy Cataloguing Contributes to WorldCat

Cassidy Cataloguing Services, Inc., located in Harrison, New Jersey, provides contract cataloging and technical services to many law firms, bar associations, educational institutions, publishers, special and corporate libraries worldwide.  

Cassidy Cataloguing has attained a reputation for high quality cataloging in the law and business library community.  

 One of the many services offered by Cassidy is Publishers Cataloging-in- Publication (PCIP).  Within this program, a publisher who is not eligible to participate in the LC CIP program may contract with Cassidy for creation of PCIP.  Cassidy Cataloguing provides PCIP for print and non-print formats.  You can read more about their PCIP program at:  http://www.cassidycataloguing.com/PublisherCIP.htm

 Cassidy is now contributing these PCIP records to WorldCat.  As a result, cataloging for these titles will be available in WorldCat prior to a library’s acquisition of the title.  This enables OCLC member libraries to do copy cataloging rather than costly original cataloging.

 PCIP prepared by Cassidy looks very similar to LC CIP.  When added to WorldCat the Cassidy PCIP records will be set at encoding level (Elvl) M, which is the OCLC code for batchload records that are less than full level.  This encoding level may be upgraded by any member library with a full cataloging authorization.  Doing such an upgrade earns the library an upgrade credit.  The records contain an incomplete 300 field, much like the LC CIP records do.  Other than the information that is not available pre-publication, the records are quite complete.  They contain complete LC and Dewey classification numbers as well as LCSH and LC subject headings for children’s literature as appropriate.  Most of the juvenile titles include summaries as well.

 When a Cassidy record is added to WorldCat, a 938 field is added to the MARC record that contains the vendor code CASS.  This code is indexed; vendor records are searchable in Connexion using the vendor index (Vendor (vn:) in the dropdown menu).  Some examples of the PCIP records contributed by Cassidy to WorldCat are OCLC numbers: #105058162; #105055433; #105058322; #105055198

 For more information on Cassidy Cataloguing Services, see their website at:
http://www.cassidycataloguing.com

 For a list of all partners contributing records through the Vendor Record Contribution Program, see the list here.

(2007 05 23)