[Publib] isbn numbers

[BookBitch]

ISBNs have nothing to do with the LOC.  There are
agencies all over the world that issue the numbers
based on geographic areas.  In the US it looks like
it's Bowker:
http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/index.asp

There is a FAQs page that may help answer your
questions about ISBNs.

I don't know for sure but it was my understanding that
OCLC is an authoritative source for cataloging
information.  http://www.oclc.org/

Hope this helps.

Stacy Alesi
Library Name *Censored*
Boca Raton, Florida
& MLIS student at USF

--- Lisa <lisa.gunter at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a question I have not found a satisfying
> answer for.
> 
> How is it that we have American published books that
> are popular or even not
> popular that have ISBN numbers in them but are not
> cataloged with the
> Library of Congress. I had the idea that the LOC
> assigned those numbers.
> 
> If the LOC does not assign them, who does. And if
> the LOC does not have
> catalog information on a book. What authoritative
> entity does?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Lisa
> QCLMC
> Quinlan, TX 75474
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