LCCAP materials

Summary: Information about and instructions for cataloging materials received via a Library of Congress purchase plan for African resources, known as LCCAP.

General info

• Materials are received in two large shipments per year and unpacked/received/sorted by Acquisitions staff
• LC staff provide printouts of catalog records in each monograph, but not in the serials
  • no other special flags denote these as being LCCAP materials
• Materials are generally routed as follows:
  • Serials → Beth Nugent in Acquisitions
  • Monographs → copy cataloging shelves in CMS
• Individual titles do not have order records
  • Any items sent to T Loc will need to be routed to Kim W. first for an order record

Cataloging treatment

• search Sierra for duplicate titles
  • return any dups to Lisa Smith
• catalog as a normal monograph
  • when exporting from Connexion, no need to include overlay command
• if adequate copy is not available, place item on copy cataloging problems shelf
  • if problem cannot be resolved, route item to Kim W. for order record creation and T Loc-ing