Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN)
$299
Planning to market your book to libraries?
A Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN) is a unique number associated with your book's Library of Congress bibliographic record. Printed on your copyright page, it helps libraries and book dealers identify the record and can make cataloging and processing your book easier.
If library marketing is part of your publishing plan, adding an LCCN during production ensures you don't miss the opportunity to include it in your book.
Eligibility requirements and important information about what an LCCN does and does not provide are explained below.
Prepare Your Book for Library Cataloging
If libraries are an important audience for your book, an LCCN is worth considering during publication. It provides a recognized control number that libraries and book dealers can use when identifying and processing your book's bibliographic record.
A Control Number for Your Book's Bibliographic Record
The Library of Congress Control Number identifies the bibliographic record associated with a book. Through the Library of Congress Preassigned Control Number (PCN) Program, an eligible forthcoming book can receive its LCCN before publication.
The assigned number is printed on the copyright page of your published book. Libraries and book dealers that obtain the book can use the LCCN to help identify its bibliographic record and facilitate their own cataloging and processing.
We Handle the Pre-Publication Process
Your LCCN Appears on Your Copyright Page
Once assigned, the Library of Congress Control Number is included with the bibliographic information in your book.
Especially Useful When Libraries Are Part of Your Plan
An LCCN is Not the Same as CIP Data
This service uses the Library of Congress Preassigned Control Number (PCN) Program to obtain an LCCN for an eligible forthcoming book. The separate Cataloging in Publication (CIP) Program provides full pre-publication cataloging data and has different eligibility requirements. An LCCN obtained through the PCN Program should not be confused with a CIP Data Block.
Don't Miss the Pre-Publication Window
If an LCCN is important to your library marketing plans, select this option before your book is published so Outskirts Press can obtain the number and include it on your copyright page.