RDA-L readers, Sometimes CIP for a previous edition is printed. In such cases you can take pertinent data, such as the LCCN (which is invalid, and should be coded so using subfield z, but is nevertheless usable as a search key) and include it in the record for the book in hand. Once I had a Spanish translation of an English-language book for which the Library of Congress had prepared CIP. The translator translated the entire book - CIP and all! For a while I wondered if LC had done it.
- Ian Ian Fairclough - George Mason University - ifairclough43...@yahoo.com
