January / February 2001 Vol. 33, no. 1

Thank You for the Good Work with the CIP Program!

David Balatti, Director, Bibliographic Services

Dalhousie University’s Killam Memorial Library and the University of Manitoba’s Dafoe Library, active partners of the National Library of Canada (NLC) in the delivery of the CIP program since the mid-1980s, submitted their last cataloguing records at the end of September 2000. In light of new internal strategic and financial orientations, the National Library has decided to assume responsibilities for Atlantic Canada’s publishers and to extend the mandate of the University of British Columbia Library’s CIP operations to cover British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Territories.

This milestone could not be left unnoticed and warrants full recognition from the NLC as well as from all those in the Canadian library community and book trade. The tireless work of the Dalhousie and Manitoba staff has contributed significantly to raising the visibility of the program over these past years.

Killam Memorial Library joined the program as a CIP agent in 1987 and successfully managed to extend coverage of the CIP program to most of Atlantic Canada’s publishers. During their 13 years of partnership, the Killam Memorial Library staff contributed 3 199 CIP records.

The University of Manitoba’s Dafoe Library joined the CIP program in 1986. The Library’s CIP staff contributed an equally significant number of records to the program, a total of 3 066 over the past 14 years, and assisted in reaching out to a significant number of new publishers from Saskatchewan and Manitoba. They too contributed to the improvement of the early availability and immediate access of authoritative bibliographic records to Canadian libraries and bookstores.

The National Library extends its most sincere appreciation to these two libraries and to their staff for their sustained contribution.