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Get a Library of Congress Number for Your Volume

One of the questions we are frequently asked is, "What is a Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN) and how practice I get one?" A LCCN is distributed for free past the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. and corresponds to a created record in their arrangement that libraries beyond the country tin expect at if they want information on how to catalogue your volume.

If y'all open whatever mainstream book to the copyright page, yous'll find several lines of data on the bottom starting with the words, "Library of Congress Catalogue-in-Publication Information." In add-on to the usual information such as author and championship, you can also observe the LCCN, appropriate subjects, and a Dewey Decimal number. While each different format of your volume requires a different ISBN, you use one LCCN for every format available (ebooks are not eligible). For cocky-published and pocket-size press books, a Preassigned Control Number (PCN) is assigned instead of a LCCN. A PCN is a number assigned to a book before it's published. According to the Library of Congress'south website, "Commencement, the book is reviewed past Library of Congress choice librarians. If the volume is selected for retention in the Library's collections, then a bibliographic record will be created and this record will announced in the Library's online catalog. If the book is not selected for memory, the Library of Congress will not create a catalog tape for the book."

Having a PCN for your book, even if it's non accepted into the Library of Congress'southward regular collection, is still important. As a unique identification number, information technology holds a place for book processing past libraries, book vendors, and the Library of Congress.

Obtaining a PCN as a small press or cocky-published writer is a quick and easy process with two parts.

Registering as a Publisher:

If y'all haven't already, come upward with your own publishing imprint/name. You lot will need this to register with the Library of Congress.
Go to Bowker.com and buy your ISBN(s) as a publisher. You lot will need part of the number for the Library of Congress awarding.
Get to http://www.loc.gov/publish/pcn/ and click on "Open an Account" under the words "Electronic PCN."
Read the data provided then click "Awarding to Participate."
Fill in all the required information and click "submit" at the bottom.
The Library of Congress volition send you lot an electronic mail within a few days to let you know whether you have been accepted into the plan. (The answer will likely be a yeah.)

Registering Your Book

Once y'all're canonical, you are given a login and password with which you tin then go back to http://www.loc.gov/publish/pcn/ and apply for a PCN.
Click on "PCN Application" in the top left-hand corner.
Fill in all the required information for the book you lot're publishing.