Cataloging
Timely, accurate cataloging is essential for speeding your acquisitions into circulation and for ensuring precise, consistent access within your own catalog. Ingram Library Services combines an authoritative bibliographic database with customized services to meet the individual specifications of your library.

We provide access to full-level MARC records through BookMARC®, our proprietary cataloging database. BookMARC includes the complete Library of Congress MARC database (with more than eight million bibliographic records), as well as tens of thousands of entries created by Ingram's MLS-degreed catalogers. It also contains LC Name Authority and Subject Authority records; our MARC records reflect the latest LC-recognized contributor, uniform title, series, and subject and geographic headings. We are a NACO participant, the first vendor to have been accorded that honor.

In addition to creating original MARC records, Ingram catalogers also upgrade CIP and other lower-level records. Ingram cataloging is in accordance with all national rules and standards, including the latest editions and versions of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, MARC21 Format, OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards, Library of Congress Classification Schedules, Dewey Decimal Classification, Sears List of Subject Headings, and Library of Congress Subject Headings. Our cataloging is consistent with LC rule interpretations and cataloging practices as established and reported in LC’s Cataloging Services Bulletin.

Accelerated Reader®, Scholastic Reading Counts!™, review citations, awards, and target-audience information can be added to MARC records.

Want to know more?
For more information about our cataloging services, contact your account manager.

 

Processing
Ingram Library Services provides more than 100 different processing options for books and audiobooks that can be customized to your requirements. Most orders can be turned around in three to 10 business days. Mylar®- and Kapco®-only orders ship in as little as two days.

Ingram also provides durable, prebound options that help ensure titles issued in paperback have a long circulation life.

Processing options

Pre-Binding Services
Ingram helps protect the investment you’ve made in your collection by offering pre-binding services for paperback books. Pre-binding converts paperbacks to hardback, ensuring the books you order have a longer life.

• Strong, double-fan adhesive binding
• Archival quality endpapers and adhesives
• Flex-board reinforced spine
• Flannel-cloth binding reinforcement
• Digitally reproduced graphics
• Nylon lamination film
• Durable binder’s board cover