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Library of Congress Publisher Descriptions Survey

The Bibliographic Enrichment Advisory Team (BEAT) of the Cataloging Directorate at the Library of Congress is involved in a project to make the publisher descriptions for selected items available on the World Wide Web. Your response to this survey will help in determining how this information is used as well as its usefulness as this project develops. For more information about this project, see the BEAT home page. Thank you for your help.

How did you find this publisher description?
From the link in the catalog record for the book (either at your local library or by searching the LC catalog, OCLC WorldCat, etc.)
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Directly from the description directory on the LC Web site
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Comments: dawi@loc.gov (08/20/01)