Cataloger at Large

About Me

I am the owner of an independent publishing company, DRT Press, specializing in books about adoption and families.

I earned my M.S.L.S. (Master of Science in Library Science) degree in 1996 from the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. My undergraduate degree is from Bates College, where I graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with a B.A. in English, in 1990. My first job as a professional librarian was as a reference librarian and cataloger at a private junior college. That's over eight years of experience working in libraries. Add that to the two I've been in business and you get ten years creating cataloging data.

I started my Cataloger-At-Large service when it became obvious that the independent publishing community needed quality CIP blocks at a reasonable price. Since the Library of Congress generally will only supply free CIP data blocks to those publishers who have published at least three books (by at least two authors), many of the growing number of small publishers have been forced to look elsewhere for their cataloging needs.

My goal is to provide quality CIP blocks to the independent publisher at a reasonable price while maintaining a high level of service and quality.

serving the independent publishing community since 2004

P.O. Box 427, Pittsboro, NC 27312

www.cipblock.com * abashista@cipblock.com