Background The British Library is developing a version of the British National Bibliography which it will make available as Linked Open Data. The initial offering includes published books with future releases extending coverage to include serial publications, multipart works, integrating resources, kits and forthcoming publications. The first subset of the British National Bibliography, covering books […]
Read moreThe Library of Congress, the National Agricultural Library, and the National Library of Medicine have issued a statement from the Executives of the three libraries regarding the Report and Recommendations of the U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee on the implementation of RDA—Resource Description & Access. The full Report and Recommendations will be available prior the […]
Read moreThe Library of Congress has issued a statement ‘Transforming our Bibliographic Framework’ in which it announces a new collaborative initiative to be led by Associate Librarian of Congress for Library Services, Deanna Marcum to look at the issues involved in migrating from MARC to new bibliographic metadata formats. As part of its work the LC will: Determine […]
Read moreThe IFLA Working Group on Guidelines for Subject Access by National Bibliographic Agencies – including membership from the IFLA sections on Classification & Indexing, Bibliography, Knowledge Management, and Cataloguing has created a set of draft Guidelines which is now available for worldwide review at: http://www.ifla.org/en/node/1707
Read moreReports from this workshop, held in Bamako, Mail, November 22-27, 2010, are now available on the IFLA ALP website at http://www.ifla.org/node/5378. ALP (Action for Development through Libraries Programme), the Bibliography Section and the National Libraries Section, along with many other organizations, provided support for the workshop. Françoise Bourdon, member of the Bibliography Section Standing Committee, made […]
Read moreThe Spanish translation of “National Bibliographies in the Digital Age” is now available as a PDF on the Bibliography section of the IFLA web site. Many thanks to Francisca Movilla López, Chief of Spanish Bibliography Section, Biblioteca Nacional for managing the translation process.
Read moreby Hanne Hørl Hansen, Bibliographic Consultant, DBC as The last couple of years, discussions have been going on in Denmark whether to include internet resources in the traditional national bibliography. Can a national bibliography be selective instead of exhaustive? How do you find and select the right resources to include since having an overview of all […]
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