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National Library News |
André Paul,
Acquisitions and Bibliographic Services
What could I read this month? What’s new on the market? Let’s look it up. ...Let’s see... Hum!
Canada’s Founding Debates: A Conversation with the Founders, edited by Janet Ajzenstat. Published in October by Stoddart in Toronto. $50.
Ah! Another interesting one...
Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush, by Lael Morgan. Published in North Vancouver by Whitecap Books. $16.95.
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Where can you find information, at your fingertips, about new Canadian publications on the market? – on the Forthcoming Books Web site. This free service of the National Library provides monthly updates on material just released or to be released in the next few months. Forthcoming Books lists items submitted by any of the 1 600 commercial publishers participating in the Canadian Cataloguing in Publication (CIP) program. Also, four provincial governments participate in the CIP program and submit information on all their major government publications. Once their pre-publication data concerning a future publication has been processed through the CIP program, the resulting cataloguing description is listed in Forthcoming Books to alert readers and booksellers throughout the country and overseas.
Want more information? The author, title, editor and price of the publication are all included. The site also provides an indication of the subject(s) covered through the subject headings assigned to the item. A four-digit number indicates in which month the editor expects to publish the item.
The Web site <http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/forthbks/efbintro.htm> provides two means of locating the items within each monthly issue: the alphabetical listing of specific subjects, and the more structured approach of the Dewey decimal classification system. Under each of these finite categories, i.e., the specific Dewey classes, the publications are listed in alphabetical order by author or title. For your convenience, adult and juvenile materials are listed in separate sections.
For those who like browsing in a bookstore, this Web service may not be the answer. But for those who like surfing and making discoveries on the Net, or who simply don’t have the time to shop around, this interesting early-awareness service will amaze you!
For more information on Forthcoming Books, please contact
David Balatti
Director, Bibliographic Services
Acquisitions and Bibliographic Services
Telephone: (819) 994-6882
Fax: (819) 997-7517
E-mail: david.balatti@nlc-bnc.ca