Copyright renewals for 1978
Copyright renewals cataloged in 1978, but not in the
electronic database system, will be available from
this page. A few renewal registrations, delayed in
cataloging, fit into this category. Most
renewals in 1978 or
later are in the Library of Congress' online copyright database--
see this page for instructions.)
The following types of renewal records will be available here.
(We have not yet checked for the existence of late catalog entries
in other categories.)
- Books and Pamphlets (6 pages)
- Periodicals (2 pages)
To see if a book can go online, you may have to check
not only the "Books" category, but also the "periodicals"
category, if parts of the book first appeared in a periodical,
and the "artwork" category if you want to scan any of the
illustrations. If the book is a play, check the "Drama" category too.
Copyright renewals also exist for music, film,
commercial prints, and certain other categories. We have
no immediate plans to digitize these, since we're mainly
interested in book renewals at this point. If you want to
digitize these, though, contact onlinebooks@pobox.upenn.edu.
A guide
to abbreviations used in the records
is now available. Other introductory
information may be available soon.
Renewals for Books and Pamphlets
The following page images are available (all GIFs):
- January - March:
- April - June:
- July - September:
- Page 2197 (portion listing renewals; 2 entries)
- (None were recorded in the October-December issue)
Renewals for Periodicals
The following page images are available (all GIFs):
- Part 1 (January - June):
- Part 2 (July - December):
The images above were scanned from simple
photocopies of bound volumes by John Mark Ockerbloom.
More images, and text or HTML transcriptions,
gladly accepted. Images should be in GIF, JPEG, PDF, PNG,
or TIFF form, and not much bigger than 500K per page. Mail to
onlinebooks@pobox.upenn.edu for more details about how to get them to me
(please don't send any images by email unless I ask for them!)
