Content tagged Best practices

We are pleased to announce a new Symposium on Robotics and AI in the Libraries in the Education Sector. This follows a highly successful pre-conference on robotics with the International...

Event - 4 July 2021

Tags: AI, Automation, Best practices, Big data, Change management, Information technology, Robotics, South Africa, Symposium, User experience, Information Technology

In particular, we show filmstrips to children as part of our entertaining and learning activities Miracles of Fairytales. Meetings for children from age 4 to 8 last 50 minutes each and take...

News - 9 June 2021

Tags: Best practices, Capacity building, Children, Cultural heritage, Education, Education and training, Information literacy, Lifelong learning, Russian Federation, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

This document lists all articles in a single document. Pictures to the articles are not always included in this compilation.   Latest News: Short Report on the Safer Internet...

Informational Page - 23 May 2021

Tags: Best practices, Capacity building, Children, Collection development, Cooperation, Cultural heritage, Democracy, Digital divide, Digital inclusion, Digital libraries, Digital resources, Disaster management, eBooks, Education, Education and training, Electronic collections, Guidelines, International cooperation, Internet access, Library as place, Library collections, Library outreach, Library services, Lifelong learning, Networking, Reading, Success stories, Young adults

By Salomon Hellman, Librarian, Stockholms stadsbibliotek, Sweden In 2018 we released the IFLA Guidelines for Library Services to Children aged 0-18, a completely revised version of the...

Informational Page - 23 May 2021

Tags: Best practices, Children, Guidelines, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

By Claire Stuckey, Children's Librarian retired, Central Coast Council – Gosford, Australia With this programme the Libraries for Children & Young Adults Section is...

Informational Page - 23 May 2021

Tags: Advocacy, Best practices, Capacity building, Children, Collection development, Cooperation, Cultural heritage, International cooperation, Library collections, Library outreach, Library services, Literacy, Networking, Reading, Success stories, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

Interview by Naoko Nakajima Koseki (Chief Planning and Cooperation Division, International Library of Children's Literature, National Diet Library, Japan) to Nicoletta Gramantieri (Biblioteca...

Informational Page - 23 May 2021

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Best practices, Children, Collection development, Democracy, Digital divide, Digital inclusion, Education and training, Library as place, Library outreach, Library services, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

By Ms Siti Aisyah Binte Abdul Nasir, Deputy Head (Children & Teens) | Programmes and Exhibitions, Archives and Libraries Group, National Library Board, Singapore In Singapore, the...

Informational Page - 22 May 2021

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Best practices, Capacity building, Children, Conceptual models, Digital libraries, E-learning, eBooks, Education, Education and training, Internet access, Library as place, Library collections, Library outreach, Library services, Lifelong learning, Social inclusion, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

Following our satellite meetings on advocacy organised for Berlin in 2017 and Kuala Lumpur in 2018, Government Libraries Section held a final satellite meeting on this theme in Rome in August 2019...

News - 4 November 2020

Tags: Advocacy, Best practices, Government information, Italy, Government Libraries

The IFLA/ UNESCO Public Library Manifesto has been an important achievement since it was first ratified in 1994. The Manifesto proclaims UNESCO's belief in the public library as a...

News - 23 March 2020

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Best practices, Cooperation, Democracy, Development, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Freedom to read, Information society, Knowledge management, Libraries for development, Library and information profession, Library and information science education, Library as place, Library collections, Library outreach, Library services, Members, Policy, Social inclusion, Society, Public Libraries

Our documentary heritage represents humanity’s ideas, imagination, innovation and cultural expressions – it is the memory of the world. We must act to preserve this heritage, and also...

News - 19 March 2020

Tags: Advocacy, Best practices, Conservation, Cultural heritage, Digitisation, Policy, Preservation, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

The new 2019-2020 Action Plan for the National Libraries Section has been agreed and is now available through our Publications page. Highlights include proposed work on the sharing of...

News - 24 January 2020

Tags: annual plans, Benchmarking, Best practices, Communities of practice, Digital preservation, strategy, National Libraries

Call for papers In keeping with the thematic focus of the next World Library Information Congress, "Inspire, Engage, Enable and Connect", the IFLA SIG Relindial...

News - 16 January 2020

Tags: Best practices, Cooperation, Cultural heritage, Cultures, Dialogue, Human rights, Multicultural populations, Peace, Religions, Social inclusion, Religions: Libraries and Dialogue

Since begining of 21st century IT development have brought new forms of e-books and complex objects for renewed and enhanced user / reader experience. These innovative cultural...

News - 13 January 2020

Tags: Access to information, Accessibility, Best practices, Development, Digital divide, Digital inclusion, Digital libraries, Digital preservation, Digital repositories, Digital resources, Digitisation, Library collections, Preservation

Climate change forces all of us to face the reality that we will see major shifts in our economic models, our physical landscapes, our energy systems, and resource management more generally....

News - 10 January 2020

Tags: ATINA SIG, Best practices, Cultural heritage, Disadvantaged persons, Disaster management, Disaster relief, Displaced persons, E4GDH SIG, Human rights, Immigrants, Indigenous peoples, International cooperation, Multicultural populations, Peace, Refugees, Risk assessment, Women’s issues, Women, Information and Libraries

Recorded at the National Library of Technology in Prague, Czech Republic, from Wednesday, October 9, at 10:00 CET, until Friday, October 11, 2019, at noon CET. More at https://ilds2019....

Publication - 12 November 2019

Tags: Access to knowledge, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Benchmarking, Best practices, Big data, Conferences, Cooperation, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Czechia, Data management, Digital divide, Document delivery, eBooks, Electronic document delivery, eLending, eLending for Libraries, Interlibrary loans, International cooperation, Networking, Open access, Research support, Document Delivery and Resource Sharing, Videos

Published on behalf of the IFLA Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section’s Standing Committee, this freely-accessible eBook is a testimonial reflecting the state-of-the-art in the...

Publication - 4 November 2019

Tags: Access to information, Benchmarking, Best practices, Big data, Conferences, Cooperation, Copyright, Copyright exceptions and limitations, Digital divide, Document delivery, eBooks, Electronic document delivery, eLending, eLending for Libraries, Intellectual property, Interlibrary loans, International cooperation, Library collections, Open access, Publications, Research support, Scholarly communications, Statistics and evaluation, User experience, Conference proceedings, Document Delivery and Resource Sharing

In today’s digital age, there is a plethora of entertainment options available to capture a child’s attention. Many children and youth are hooked on social media and technology, hence...

Informational Page - 4 August 2019

Tags: Automation, Best practices, Capacity building, Children, Reading promotion, Singapore, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

Loving the Rural Community Children with Open Spaces for ICT in Nigeria: Prospects and Challenges The incorporation of Information & Communication Technology (ICT) to enhance children...

Informational Page - 4 August 2019

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Best practices, Children, digital gap, digital skills, Digitisation, Education, empowerment, Internet access, Nigeria, Social inclusion, Young adults

Digitization and online tools provide opportunities for school librarians to actively include their users in creating new library collections. One such example is Digital Collection of Students...

Informational Page - 4 August 2019

Tags: Best practices, Children, Collection development, Digital inclusion, Digital libraries, digital skills, Digitisation, Education and training, Electronic collections, empowerment, Lifelong learning, school libraries, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

Dear colleagues, We are delighted that many of our section members will be able to join us for the 85th IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) in Athens, Greece, and...

Informational Page - 4 August 2019

Tags: Best practices, Children, Digital inclusion, Digitisation, Electronic collections, Information literacy, Information technology, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

Do You Have Pride in Your Library? The IFLA LGBTQ Users Special Interest Group is collecting information from libraries around the world on the LGBTQ+ resources, services, spaces,...

News - 7 July 2019

Tags: Benchmarking, Best practices, Guidelines, LGBTQ librarianship, LGBTQ library outreach, LGBTQ library resources, LGBTQ library services, LGBTQ library services. LGBTQ library programming, Libraries for development, Performance indicators, Statistics and evaluation, surveys, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users (LGBTQ)

IFLA’s Standing Committee on Libraries for Children and Young Adults is seeking articles for our next newsletter about youth services librarianship and best practices from around the world...

News - 20 March 2019

Tags: Best practices, Children, E-learning, Electronic collections, Electronic resources, eLending, Freedom of information, Information literacy, Information policies, Young adults

In keeping with the thematic focus of the next World Library Information Congress, “Libraries: Dialogue for Change”, the IFLA SIG Relindial propose a session. It will be organised on...

News - 11 January 2019

Tags: Best practices, Collection development, Communications, conflict, Conservation, Cultural heritage, Democracy, Dialogue, Education, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Heritage, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, Peace, Religion, RELINDIAL, resentment, Social inclusion, Society, Sustainability, Religions: Libraries and Dialogue

Call for Papers: Programme Session Standards and Best Practices Relating to Serials, Continuing Resources and Scholarly Communications Sponsored by: IFLA Serials and Other...

News - 8 January 2019

Tags: Best practices, Cataloguing, Digital preservation, Serials

The IFLA Audiovisual and Multimedia Section, joined by the IFLA Preservation and Conservation Section and the Strategic Programme on Preservation and Conservation (PAC), invite interested...

News - 7 January 2019

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Accessibility, Archives, Audiovisual and multimedia resources, Best practices, Collection development, Conservation, Cultural heritage, Data management, Digital humanities, Digital libraries, Digital preservation, Digital resources, Electronic resources, Information technology, Library and information profession, Library collections, Open source, Preservation, Resource discovery, Risk assessment, Society, Usability

2014-2015 IFLA LGBT SIG Annual Report

Publication - 2 January 2019

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Accessibility, Acquisitions, Advocacy, Best practices, Cataloguing, Censorship, Collection development, Communications, Communities of practice, Conferences, Disadvantaged persons, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Freedom to read, Human rights, Immigrants, Indigenous peoples, Information society, LGBTQ library services, Libraries for development, Library and information science education, Library as place, Library collections, Library outreach, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, Net neutrality, Peace, Resource discovery, User experience, Women’s issues, Young adults, Annual reports, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users (LGBTQ)

2015-2016 IFLA LGBT SIG Annual Report

Publication - 2 January 2019

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Accessibility, Acquisitions, Advocacy, Benchmarking, Best practices, Cataloguing, Censorship, Collection development, Communications, Communities of practice, Disadvantaged persons, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Freedom to read, Guidelines, Human rights, Immigrants, Indigenous peoples, LGBTQ library services, Libraries for development, Library and information science education, Library as place, Library collections, Lifelong learning, Marginalised populations, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, Net neutrality, Peace, Performance indicators, Resource discovery, Social inclusion, User experience, Women’s issues, Young adults, Annual reports, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users (LGBTQ)

2016-2017 IFLA LGBT SIG Annual Report

Publication - 2 January 2019

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Accessibility, Acquisitions, Advocacy, Benchmarking, Best practices, Cataloguing, Censorship, Collection development, Communications, Communities of practice, Disadvantaged persons, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Freedom to read, Human rights, Immigrants, Indigenous peoples, LGBTQ library services, Libraries for development, Library and information science education, Library as place, Library collections, Lifelong learning, Marginalised populations, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, Net neutrality, Peace, Performance indicators, Resource discovery, Social inclusion, User experience, Women’s issues, Young adults, Annual reports, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users (LGBTQ)

Click here for the complete 2018-2019 IFLA LGBTQ+ SIG Action Plan. Objectives of Professional Unit 2018-19: 1. Provide guidelines for LGBTQ+ library services and collections around...

Publication - 26 December 2018

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Accessibility, Action plans, Advocacy, Benchmarking, Best practices, Disadvantaged persons, Freedom of expression, Freedom of information, Freedom to read, Guidelines, Human rights, Immigrants, Indigenous peoples, LGBTQ library services, Libraries for development, Library and information science education, Library as place, Lifelong learning, Marginalised populations, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, Net neutrality, Peace, Performance indicators, Resource discovery, Social inclusion, User experience, Women’s issues, Young adults, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users (LGBTQ)

IFLA DDRS Standing Committee would like to challenge the interlending and document supply community to consider strategies for contending with an increasingly complex global information...

Event - 7 December 2018

Tags: Access to information, Best practices, Change management, Conference, Conferences, Cooperation, Copyright, Czechia, Document delivery, Electronic document delivery, Interlibrary loans, International cooperation, Resource discovery, Document Delivery and Resource Sharing

Hot topics session at IFLA Congress, Kuala Lumpur 2018 Slides from Hot Topics sessions, IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2018, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...

Informational Page - 15 October 2018

Tags: Academic and Research Libraries, Best practices, Hot Topics

Dear Colleagues, it was nice to see so many of you at World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Colleagues from all over the world came...

Informational Page - 4 August 2018

Tags: Advocacy, Best practices, Children, Children's libraries, Conferences, Cooperation, Guidelines, Lifelong learning, Literacy, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

The Art Libraries Section of IFLA, in collaboration with the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, is organizing a one-day conference that focuses on the documentation of global...

News - 13 May 2018

Tags: Access to information, Best practices, Conferences, Cultural heritage, Library collections, Art Libraries

If you would like to translate the poster into your own language, please contact Gill Hallam for a copy of the template (email: gillian.hallam1(@)bigpond.com). English...

Publication - 22 September 2017

Tags: Best practices, Posters, Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning

Libraries have a central role in preserving and promoting cultural heritage. Without their work, our communities would be poorer and weaker. As set out in IFLA's Statement on Preserving...

Publication - 3 August 2017

Tags: Best practices, Conservation, Cultural heritage, Cultural Heritage topic, Preservation, Procedures, Guidelines, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

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Event - 11 July 2017

Tags: Best practices, Congress, IFLA 2017, Open Session, Asia and Oceania

The purpose of organising workshops is to connect library professionals working in agricultural libraries globally and to make them aware about the best practices in the field of information...

Informational Page - 20 February 2017

Tags: Best practices, Agricultural Libraries

Theme: “Library associations in solidarity with civil society” The IFLA Management of Library Associations Section invites proposals to be presented at a two-hour session at...

News - 6 December 2016

Tags: Associations, Best practices, Call for Papers, civil society, Democracy, IFLA 2017, Information policies, Library outreach, MLAS, Policy, Social inclusion, Society, Management of Library Associations

Join us in Bergen, Noway next August for our satellite meeting 'Managing Change: Library Transitions' and hear from practitioners around the world about best practice examples...

Event - 2 December 2016

Tags: Best practices, Management and Marketing Section, Norway, Satellite Meeting, Public Libraries

Section launches a new project: Collecting and displaying Best Practices for library services for children and young adults. The Best Practices may be events, reading promotions, campaigns...

News - 16 August 2016

Tags: Best practices, best practices, projects, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

Good ideas for better libraries – share your experience! How do I reach out to teens? How can I improve the story telling hour at my library? I want to engage parents in...

Informational Page - 28 April 2016

Tags: Advocacy, Benchmarking, Best practices, Children, Communications, Events, Library marketing, Library outreach, Reading, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

Last year IFLA Section published a collection of articles about sports in libraries. Now we’re taking a wider perspective: in this issue we’re viewing the impact libraries can...

Informational Page - 18 January 2016

Tags: Best practices, Children, Newsletter, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

Libraries throughout the world have a strong history of responding to natural disasters and humanitarian crises providing a welcoming environment, a place of refuge for body and soul, and...

News - 12 October 2015

Tags: Best practices, Europe, refugees, Public Libraries

The report from the Project Working Group Meeting on Best Practice for National Bibliographic Agencies in a Digital Age, held April 2015, London, is now available  

News - 18 August 2015

Tags: Best practices, Bibliography

Only 15 days remain until entries in the 2015,  Systematic Public Library of the Year Award  close on 15 June 2015. The prize will be awarded to a library that has...

News - 2 June 2015

Tags: Best practices, Denmark, Public Libraries

IFLA Satellite Conference in Paris 2014 - Review of a participant The Satellite Conference organised by the Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section & School Libraries Section...

Informational Page - 1 June 2015

Tags: Best practices, Conferences, Literacy, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

IFLA LGBTQ Users SIG CFP 2015 Developing Equitable Access for LGBTQ Library Users                   According to...

News - 16 December 2014

Tags: Access to information, Acquisitions, Advocacy, Best practices, Censorship, Communities of practice, Cooperation, Cultural heritage, Disadvantaged persons, Freedom of information, International cooperation, Marginalised populations, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, Social inclusion, Society, Success stories

Queer Library Alliance: Global Reflections and Imaginings Call for Papers Editors: Rae-Anne Montague and Lucas McKeever  Publisher: Library Juice Press International...

News - 16 December 2014

Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Best practices, Communities of practice, Cooperation, Cultural heritage, Disadvantaged persons, Freedom of information, International cooperation, Marginalised populations, Minority groups, Multicultural populations, Social inclusion, Society, Women’s issues, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning Users (LGBTQ)

IFLA recommends the adoption of subject classification schemes for arrangement of the national bibliography. Classification schemes may be directly related to the subject scheme used or...

Page of a Book - 15 September 2014

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MACS (Multilingual Access to Subjects) is a collaborative project involving the British Library, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Swiss National Library...

Page of a Book - 15 September 2014

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Subject indexing schemes express concepts in a way that is language-dependent. Multi-national initiatives to promote the interoperability of subject indexing across language barriers can involve...

Page of a Book - 15 September 2014

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IFLA recommends provision of subject access to national bibliographies. The IFLA Classification & Indexing Section has developed specific guidelines which have been made available in printed...

Page of a Book - 15 September 2014

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Standards for authority files were often part of national cataloguing rules like AACR2 or RAK in the past. With the development of RDA as an internationally used cataloguing rule set, RDA...

Page of a Book - 15 September 2014

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Authority control is an expensive process. Various international initiatives exist with the objective of reducing the cost of authority control through co-operation. Such initiatives also...

Page of a Book - 15 September 2014

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The NBA is responsible for “establishing the authoritative form of name for its country’s authors, both personal and corporate, and authoritative lists of its country’s authors,...

Page of a Book - 15 September 2014

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The scope of the national bibliography should be reflected in the scope of the authority file. Thus, NBAs that include journal articles in the national bibliography should include the authors and...

Page of a Book - 15 September 2014

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Authority control (or access point control) refers to the normalisation of controlled access points (headings) and the provision of alternative and related access points. Authority control...

Page of a Book - 15 September 2014

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As a successor to the widely used AACR2, the new international code Resource Description & Access, RDA has been designed. Based on FRBR, RDA was developed to enable the description of any...

Page of a Book - 15 September 2014

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National cataloguing rules provide guidance on the selection and construction of access points and may cover other aspects of cataloguing, such as authority control, about which ISBD is silent...

Page of a Book - 15 September 2014

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Whereas the ISBD is the standard that determines the data elements to be recorded, it is not an instruction manual itself. Most cataloguing rules that were developed by national bibliographic...

Page of a Book - 15 September 2014

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Comprehensive level: Denotes assignment of extensive metadata for description and access Explicitly conforms to published content standards but there is no commitment to...

Page of a Book - 10 September 2014

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Enhanced level description: Indicates that the basic resource has been supplemented by assignment of some metadata May not explicitly indicate the content standards used...

Page of a Book - 10 September 2014

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Authoritative level description: Denotes the highest level of metadata assigned to a resource Offers the most flexible support for resource discovery Includes (...

Page of a Book - 10 September 2014

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Basic level description: Assumes no metadata have been assigned to the resource, either by the bibliographic agency or by the source Is likely to include web resources...

Page of a Book - 10 September 2014

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The NBA’s responsibility to create extensive records of its national imprint as recommended by the 1977 Paris conference and affirmed by the 1998 Copenhagen International Conference on...

Page of a Book - 10 September 2014

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Library metadata most commonly describes items – documents in any physical form, treated as an "entity”. The item forms the basis of the bibliographic description. If a national...

Page of a Book - 10 September 2014

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Collection-level description (sometimes also: archival description) consists of metadata describing a collection as a whole, in contrast to item-level description (manifestation description in...

Page of a Book - 10 September 2014

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A basic decision upon metadata requirements has to be made concerning the unit described. Does the metadata of a national bibliography pertain to a collection, to an item, or even to parts of...

Page of a Book - 10 September 2014

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Compatibility of cataloguing rules is as essential as compatibility of formats. While formats govern the structure of metadata, cataloguing rules govern its content. Two events marked the...

Page of a Book - 10 September 2014

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A primary function of the national bibliography is the accurate bibliographic description of the works it contains. Rules for the creation of bibliographic descriptions have evolved in...

Page of a Book - 10 September 2014

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Adherence to content standards ensures consistency in the published bibliography. Content standards specify: Which information is to be recorded How it is to be...

Page of a Book - 10 September 2014

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SPARQL (Simple Protocol and RDF Query Language) is a query language for RDF based databases commonly used in linked data initiatives.

Page of a Book - 30 July 2014

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SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organisation System) provides a model for describing controlled vocabularies, such as thesauri, classification schemes or taxonomies. The Library of Congress and Biblioth...

Page of a Book - 30 July 2014

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OWL (Web Ontology Language) is designed to enable machine processing of the content of information. OWL explicitly represents the meaning of terms in vocabularies and the relationships between...

Page of a Book - 30 July 2014

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RDF (Resource Description Framework) provides simple semantics for describing resources and the relationships between resources, on the Web. Representations encoded in RDF are machine readable and...

Page of a Book - 30 July 2014

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The Semantic Web is a vision of the Web in which machines automatically process the content of information. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) publishes recommendations, which serve as...

Page of a Book - 30 July 2014

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BIBFRAME is a new initiative led by the Library of Congress to explore the transition from the long established MARC 21 format via the creation of a new bibliographic data model and vocabulary...

Page of a Book - 30 July 2014

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MODS was created by the Library of Congress’ Network Development and MARC Standards Office together with other interested experts as a multi-function bibliographic element set schema with...

Page of a Book - 30 July 2014

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ONIX is a group of related XML standards for books, serials and publishing rights information. Onix for Books was the first of the standards to be widely adopted by the book trade and was...

Page of a Book - 30 July 2014

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MARCXML is a Document Type Definition (DTD) describing the MARC 21 format in XML. MARCXML is used in many applications at the Library of Congress and in OCLC WorldCat and was designed to assist...

Page of a Book - 30 July 2014

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All mark-up languages are derived from SGML (Standard Generalized Mark-up Language), which was used in the 1980s in professional environments for technical and scientific publishing. Based on the...

Page of a Book - 30 July 2014

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The concept of application profiles emerged within the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative as a way to declare which elements from which namespaces are used in a particular application or project....

Page of a Book - 23 July 2014

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The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set is an ISO Standard (ISO 15836) well known in the Web and library worlds as a cross domain standard that defines 15 data elements for resource description....

Page of a Book - 23 July 2014

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The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is an organisation dedicated to promoting the widespread adoption of interoperable metadata standards and developing specialised metadata vocabularies...

Page of a Book - 23 July 2014

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Many countries have developed national versions of MARC, in order to accommodate local practices. To address this multiplicity of MARC formats, IFLA fostered the development of an international...

Page of a Book - 23 July 2014

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MARC 21 is the product of the integration of USMARC, UKMARC and CANMARC (Canadian MARC). It is the most extensively used MARC format in the world and a de facto standard. It has been designed to...

Page of a Book - 23 July 2014

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UNIMARC was originally designed to be a switching format to enable the wider exchange of bibliographic data. UNIMARC has been developed by a number of countries to become a production format...

Page of a Book - 23 July 2014

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For encoding their printed and audiovisual material most libraries are still currently using MARC (MAchine Readable Cataloging) formats which are applications of the ISO 2709 file standard. This...

Page of a Book - 23 July 2014

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Traditionally libraries have exchanged metadata in domain specific formats such as MARC (MAchine Readable Cataloging) and offered some limited text based download formats to end users. In the...

Page of a Book - 23 July 2014

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While the long established Format for Information Exchange (ISO 2709) enables the efficient transmission of compressed MARC data, other non-MARC text based data formats (e.g. .CSV, XML etc.) lack...

Page of a Book - 22 July 2014

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MarcXchange specifies the requirements for a generalised XML-based exchange format for MARC records. This new XML DTD describes a generalised structure, designed primarily for communication...

Page of a Book - 22 July 2014

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The libraries commonly use specialist formats for the distribution of MARC data based on the ISO 2709 standard that can be easily imported by library management systems.

Page of a Book - 22 July 2014

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In addition to formal naming conventions it is also good practice for NBAs to supply text files as summaries to accompany data files and to document their contents. Such files should ideally...

Page of a Book - 22 July 2014

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Unique file names created in a consistent form should ideally assist both machine and human processing of the files themselves by incorporating elements conveying: File format (e.g. by...

Page of a Book - 22 July 2014

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In the absence of international standards in this area, it is good practice for NBAs to establish, maintain and publicise conventions relating to the naming and labelling of data files supplied...

Page of a Book - 22 July 2014

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This section provides information on standards and best practice relating to the exchange of bibliographic metadata via file transfer including: File naming and labelling Data...

Page of a Book - 22 July 2014

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Unambiguous identification of entities (e.g. persons, corporate bodies, works etc.) will be essential precursors to machine to machine operations and more identifiers are being developed....

Page of a Book - 21 July 2014

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The ISWC (International Standard Musical Work Code) is a standard identifier (ISO 15707:2001) designed to uniquely and accurately identify musical works. It is a permanent identifier which...

Page of a Book - 21 July 2014

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The ISTC (International Standard Text Code) is a standard identifier (ISO 21047) for work expressions rather than their manifestations which are identified by ISBN. Although developed by the book...

Page of a Book - 21 July 2014

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The ISRC (International Standard Recording Code) is a standard persistent identifier (ISO 3901: 2001) for sound and music video recordings. The ISRC can be encoded directly into the product to...

Page of a Book - 21 July 2014

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The International Standard Music Number (ISMN) is well established as an identifier for printed music.

Page of a Book - 21 July 2014

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In addition to core bibliographic identifiers such as the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) for books and International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) for journals, other new and...

Page of a Book - 21 July 2014

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The Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a series of characters formulated to uniquely identify a resource, most commonly on the Web and enable interaction with it via common protocols such as...

Page of a Book - 21 July 2014

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The Archival Resource Key (ARK) system is location and protocol independent and is a new approach to persistent identification. It was developed in 2001 by John Kunze for custodians of archived...

Page of a Book - 21 July 2014

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The development of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system was initiated by the Association of American Publishers, and is now managed by the International DOI Foundation. The DOI system of...

Page of a Book - 21 July 2014

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The Handle System, developed by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) is “a comprehensive system for assigning, managing, and resolving persistent identifiers, known as...

Page of a Book - 21 July 2014

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The Persistent Uniform Resource Locator (PURL) was developed and implemented by the OCLC as a naming and resolution service for general Internet resources. It is intended as an interim system to...

Page of a Book - 21 July 2014

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Persistent identifiers are identifiers that can be cited to retrieve digital objects over a long period of time. Such identifiers enable resources to be accurately identified by reconciling a...

Page of a Book - 21 July 2014

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Although the NBN is not yet a formal standard, details of the proposed specification are available. The purpose of the NBN is to enable persistent resource identification and the NBN...

Page of a Book - 21 July 2014

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Library management and other bibliographic database systems commonly assign local system control numbers to bibliographic records however these are primarily for internal database maintenance and...

Page of a Book - 21 July 2014

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An identifier is an association between a string (a sequence of characters) and an information resource. That association is made manifest by a record that binds the identifier string to a set of...

Page of a Book - 21 July 2014

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It is good practice to make announcements relating to service changes, down time or upgrades to system users via all available channels. This could include: Notices on the system home...

Page of a Book - 2 June 2014

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Examples of how national bibliographic agencies have implemented service delivery options to meet the needs of their users can be found in the National Bibliographic Register  

Page of a Book - 2 June 2014

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NBA’s should endeavour to offer some form of help desk support within advertised hours for user queries that cannot be resolved via online help. Help desks should be operated by staff highly...

Page of a Book - 2 June 2014

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Information retrieval systems should ideally be designed in a way to enable the end-user to use them without outside assistance, special documentation or training. However, regardless of the type...

Page of a Book - 2 June 2014

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An important element for NBAs to consider when developing and implementing bibliographic services is how to communicate effectively with users? Communication can take a variety of forms including...

Page of a Book - 2 June 2014

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As national bibliographies are going more and more online, the issue of permanent identifiers for citation and linking is becoming crucial at the international level. Persistent...

Page of a Book - 2 June 2014

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Several licensing options for public domain content and metadata have been developed by organisations such as Creative Commons, offering originators credit and some liability protection. However,...

Page of a Book - 4 April 2014

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While the possible benefits for NBAs wishing to offer linked open data services are significant, the challenges should not be underestimated. These include: The financial impact on...

Page of a Book - 4 April 2014

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Although the learning curve for linked data technologies can be steep, a number of potential benefits have been suggested for libraries and NBAs including: New opportunities for...

Page of a Book - 4 April 2014

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In order to retain their relevance to the wider community and stimulate the wider re-use of bibliographic metadata a number of NBAs have recently begun to offer a range of open data and linked...

Page of a Book - 4 April 2014

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While traditional library metadata is based on a proprietary, document based model, linked data uses a dynamic data based model based on linking simple three part RDF statements ( ‘triples...

Page of a Book - 4 April 2014

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A new option for NBAs wishing to disseminate national bibliographic information has been the creation of free ‘linked data’ versions of their datasets (e.g. the ‘Linked Open...

Page of a Book - 4 April 2014

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      We are excited to announce the second installment of this year’s webinar series “New Librarians Global Connection: best...

Event - 4 April 2014

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The theme of the conference is: Space and collections earning their keep: transformation, technologies and re-tooling The link to the IFLA official announcement page is http://www....

News - 3 April 2014

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All organisations holding customer or user data (e.g. addresses, payment details, passwords etc.) must be aware of their responsibilities for ensuring it is not misused or stolen. NBAs holding...

Page of a Book - 26 March 2014

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Threats to system security involve the ‘hacking’ of online systems by malicious individuals or groups. Threats fall into three main areas: ‘Denial of Service’...

Page of a Book - 26 March 2014

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NBAs offering services to individual or institutional users should be aware of the potential data and system security issues faced by any organisation offering online access. It is outside of the...

Page of a Book - 26 March 2014

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In addition to regular updates, bulk data files may also be provided to: Customers wishing to undertake an offline retrospective conversion of their catalogue and requiring a complete...

Page of a Book - 26 March 2014

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File transfer services are commonly used to offer regular (e.g. weekly, monthly, annual) bulk data files that include all records that have been added, changed or deleted in the national...

Page of a Book - 26 March 2014

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While few NBAs currently use physical media (e.g. tape, disc etc.) to regularly disseminate files of bibliographic metadata, most offer some form of online file transfer service (e.g. via FTP). In...

Page of a Book - 26 March 2014

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One of the most flexible options for accessing a dataset directly is via an ‘Application Programming Interface’ (API).  This allows third party developers to create unique or...

Page of a Book - 26 March 2014

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OAI-PMH (Open Archive Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) is a client/server architecture protocol specification that facilitates the diffusion of metadata e.g.:...

Page of a Book - 26 March 2014

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SRU (Search/Retrieve via URL) is a standard synchronous search protocol for Internet search queries, utilizing CQL (Contextual Query Language), a standard syntax for representing queries. SRW (...

Page of a Book - 21 March 2014

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American National Information Standards Organization Z39.50 is the most popular synchronous search and retrieval protocol used in the library world. It is based on a client/server...

Page of a Book - 21 March 2014

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The requirement to offer access to online bibliographic databases via a user’s local interface was identified some time ago and a number of different search and retrieval protocols have been...

Page of a Book - 21 March 2014

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After a user has retrieved a satisfactory set of results from an online service, they may wish to save them for future reference or manipulation and use within other computer applications. NBA...

Page of a Book - 13 March 2014

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Traditional online systems have long offered users a degree of customisation (e.g. saved searches, preferred display or download formats etc.). These are normally linked to a user’s login...

Page of a Book - 13 March 2014

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In recent years, following the rise of online services such as Amazon, libraries and NBAs have begun to examine ways in which traditional catalogues can be enhanced via linking bibliographic...

Page of a Book - 13 March 2014

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Search results should enable users to evaluate their relevance as swiftly and easily as possible and inform their continuing search strategy. Typically, results are first listed in a summary...

Page of a Book - 13 March 2014

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A search query normally results in a set of records requiring examination in order to determine their relevance and the system’s interface should facilitate this function. Results must be...

Page of a Book - 13 March 2014

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(via search templates and forms) The combination of search templates together with a forms based interface is user-friendly option which enables inexperienced users to rapidly construct...

Page of a Book - 13 March 2014

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Search ‘command mode’ was historically the first method of query input and use of logical statements together with Boolean operators and extensions (e.g. proximity operators) continue...

Page of a Book - 13 March 2014

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When they have specific information needs, users commonly express these in the form of a query or search statement and much research has concentrated on this area. Users may formulate queries in...

Page of a Book - 13 March 2014

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The interfaces of national bibliographies share many properties of both library OPACs and bibliographic databases in general. Numerous studies of OPAC interfaces and their usage exist including...

Page of a Book - 13 March 2014

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In recent years following the rise in popularity of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices, new delivery options for web based catalogues have developed. Broadly these options fall into...

Page of a Book - 13 March 2014

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The Web is now the preferred means of offering access to a national bibliography. Web access enables data to be regularly updated and can be available to users globally whenever required. The...

Page of a Book - 13 March 2014

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Paper remains widely used and printed national bibliographies can still deliver an effective service. Rising production and distribution costs are however likely to render paper uneconomic in the...

Page of a Book - 13 March 2014

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Print and hybrid options Handheld electronic Online access Mobile options

Page of a Book - 12 March 2014

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A bibliographic format describes the structure that enables cataloguing metadata to be processed by a computer. Numerous bibliographic formats exist both within and beyond the library environment...

Page of a Book - 12 March 2014

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It is essential to be able to encode and present information in the script required by the user. In an increasingly global environment it is not unusual to find multiple scripts present in a...

Page of a Book - 12 March 2014

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Compatibility of formats complements compatibility of cataloguing rules, with formats covering structural issues and cataloguing rules governing record content. The 1961 Paris Principles made...

Page of a Book - 12 March 2014

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Until recently, standards were created within professional communities and aimed to ensure interoperability within those communities. This explains why library standards are not compatible with...

Page of a Book - 12 March 2014

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National bibliographies, particularly electronic national bibliographies, should be designed to facilitate international aggregation. It is extremely important therefore to support...

Page of a Book - 12 March 2014

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Google and Amazon have changed user expectations and behavior with regard to search functionality and have made large result sets and low precision commonplace. However many new systems e.g. those...

Page of a Book - 12 March 2014

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Information retrieval systems enabling retrieval via subject fall into three basic categories: Group 1 indexes works via the actual words used in the document and/or its title and/or...

Page of a Book - 12 March 2014

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User search strategies are inevitably shaped by the ways information can be accessed; either searching for a known item where the author, title or other information is available or searching on a...

Page of a Book - 12 March 2014

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World Wide Web has enabled libraries to make their databases available to a vast world-wide audience. The situation is even more heterogeneous with portals and distributed/federated searching...

Page of a Book - 12 March 2014

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The basic requirements for searching are discussed in the functionality section, however core access points, which should always be supported, are: Author Title...

Page of a Book - 12 March 2014

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This section outlines some areas where requirements are common to all service options implemented by NBAs.    

Page of a Book - 12 March 2014

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Efficient co-operation with publishers and distributors of publications is very important for a successful and sustainable national bibliography for a number of reasons:. Publishers...

Page of a Book - 15 January 2014

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Access to electronic resources is often restricted by contract and by technical protection measures. Contracts issued with digital works may impose conditions on access or constrain access in ways...

Page of a Book - 14 January 2014

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Copyright law protects: The right of creators to be recognised and rewarded for their work; The public interest in freedom of access to information and ideas. The...

Page of a Book - 14 January 2014

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Copyright Digital copyright  

Page of a Book - 14 January 2014

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Promotion of national bibliographies should be targeted at publishers and the book trade community, rights management organisations, media and the general public that could benefit from...

Page of a Book - 14 January 2014

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Canada In Canada responsibility for coordination of the programme resides with the Library and Archives Canada, but the programme is operated through a network of agent libraries providing...

Page of a Book - 14 January 2014

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There is no single model for CIP programmes; each national bibliographic agency is different and the programmes evolve to satisfy local requirements. IFLA conducted a survey of CIP programmes in...

Page of a Book - 14 January 2014

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CIP programmes assist publishers and libraries. For publishers the programme acts as a bridge to the library book buying market For libraries it is an alerting service...

Page of a Book - 14 January 2014

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The IFLA/UNESCO Guidelines for legal deposit legislation suggest that deposit should take place as soon as possible after publication. In addition, the ICNBS recommendation 7 states that "The...

Page of a Book - 14 January 2014

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Norway The Norwegian Act of Legal Deposit of Generally Available Documents of 9 June 1989 came into effect on 1 July 1990. It was one of the first legal deposit acts to include digital...

Page of a Book - 13 January 2014

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"Voluntary deposit" is an agreement by which publishers commit to deposit material with the national bibliographic agency in the absence of a formal statutory requirement. The national...

Page of a Book - 13 January 2014

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Legal deposit as a statutory obligation requires publishers, distributors and, in some countries, printers to freely provide copies of their publications to the national collection. In many...

Page of a Book - 13 January 2014

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Canada The Canadian national bibliography, Canadiana, includes publications from Canadian publishers, by Canadian authors, and on Canadian topics. It was published as a monthly printed...

Page of a Book - 13 January 2014

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An NBA may determine that it is appropriate to offer a mixed portfolio of free and priced services depending upon the resources required to deliver them. For example a basic offering of an online...

Page of a Book - 13 January 2014

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National bibliographic services are offered free of charge in many countries as a public good. The business case being founded on the stimulation free access to information gives to the...

Page of a Book - 13 January 2014

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For any national bibliographic service it is vital to understand the costs and the potential market but it is particularly important if the service is to be supported in whole or part by charges....

Page of a Book - 13 January 2014

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The choice of business model depends on the clients and goals of the national bibliography, the resources available to produce it, and the organisational or political context of the national...

Page of a Book - 13 January 2014

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Efficient co-operation with publishers and distributors of publications is very important for a successful and sustainable national bibliography for a number of reasons: Publishers are...

Page of a Book - 13 January 2014

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Responsibility for national bibliographic control is often distributed among agencies responsible for different types of material e.g. texts may be the responsibility of the national library,...

Page of a Book - 13 January 2014

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While there is agreement that national bibliographic control is the responsibility of the NBA (National Bibliographic Agency) there is no consensus on where the agency should be located. The...

Page of a Book - 10 January 2014

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The national bibliographic agency (NBA) is: "the organizational unit established within a country's library system, which undertakes responsibility for the preparation of the...

Page of a Book - 6 January 2014

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Selective Exclusion of Digital Resources The following categories and formats of digital resources are excluded by some national bibliographic agencies and may be of use to other NBAs...

Page of a Book - 1 November 2013

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Possible Selection Criteria For Digital Resources The following are potential selection criteria that might be applied by a national bibliographic agency when developing its policy for...

Page of a Book - 1 November 2013

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In addition to human users, online national bibliographies can also be accessed directly by computer software applications. Such applications include federated or distributed searching and...

Page of a Book - 1 November 2013

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End-users have not always been considered a priority audience. However, the IFLA Standing Committee affirms the importance of the national bibliography as a key cultural heritage resource and...

Page of a Book - 1 November 2013

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Different national and governmental agencies may use the information contained in national bibliographies to assist their work. Funding bodies - May use the national bibliography for their...

Page of a Book - 1 November 2013

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National bibliographic data can be used to support the management of intellectual rights by collecting societies, in addition to government bodies for the management of lending right remuneration...

Page of a Book - 1 November 2013

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National bibliographies enable publishers (commercial and non-commercial sector, including government and official publishers) to analyse the national market and potential competition....

Page of a Book - 1 November 2013

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The requirements of booksellers and other members of national book trade supply chains can be similar to those of collection development, acquisition or reference librarians in using national...

Page of a Book - 1 November 2013

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Librarians in charge of collection development require national bibliographies (both local and foreign) to: Analyse available publications Select according to collection...

Page of a Book - 1 November 2013

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Require national bibliographies for copy cataloguing and cataloguing support in general (e.g. to identify precedents for similar material being catalogued). Cataloguers therefore need complete...

Page of a Book - 1 November 2013

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Information requirements from the national bibliography Acquisitions librarians require national bibliographies to: Order publications Identify publishers and...

Page of a Book - 1 November 2013

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Key library functions that use metadata from national bibliographies include: Acquisitions Cataloguing Collection development Record Deriving In...

Page of a Book - 1 November 2013

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Selective exclusion of digital resources The following categories and formats of digital resources are excluded by some national bibliographic agencies and may be of use to other NBAs...

Page of a Book - 31 October 2013

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Digital resources include a variety of formats e.g.: Web sites (including blogs/weblogs, integrating resources, and other fast emerging resources) Online databases E-...

Page of a Book - 31 October 2013

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Importance of content Given the overriding importance of the content in determining inclusion, the following criteria may assist in assessing whether a resource is worthy of selection...

Page of a Book - 31 October 2013

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i.e. costs of items included together with their: Cataloguing Storage Supply Preservation In order to mitigate some of the resource implications...

Page of a Book - 31 October 2013

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The following categories and formats of digital resources are excluded by some national bibliographic agencies and may be of use to other NBAs developing or their own selection policies...

Page of a Book - 31 October 2013

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The evolving concept of a national bibliography In 1950 the emphasis was on a detailed description of what kinds of documents should be registered in the national bibliography, but...

Page of a Book - 31 October 2013

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AACR2 - Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd edition.  AACR (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd edition) is a major international standard for the cataloguing of all types of materials...

Page of a Book - 29 October 2013

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2010 A changing context - the IFLA Working Group on Guidelines for National Bibliographies in a Digital Age When examining the history of recommendations relating to the creation and...

Page of a Book - 29 October 2013

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The Scientific Council on Reading of the Department of Education and Culture of the Russian Academy of Education, Research Center for the History of Book Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences...

News - 10 September 2013

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Glossary of terms and abbreviations and useful links A-H | I-K | L-N | O-R | S-Z

Page of a Book - 29 July 2013

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Introduction Recent years have seen national bibliographic agencies increasingly migrate from print, and CD-ROM to online, web based options for the delivery of national bibliographic...

Page of a Book - 29 July 2013

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National Bibliographic Agency Selection & Exclusions Policies Existing NBAs commonly have established guidance and criteria for selecting print and other traditional analogue materials...

Page of a Book - 29 July 2013

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Selection or Exclusion Policies? Each national bibliographic agency is responsible for developing its own selection criteria. The information in the sections below provide examples from...

Page of a Book - 29 July 2013

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[...] Recommendations Recommendation 5 of The International Conference on National Bibliographic Services . (2002, October 1). The final recommendations of the International...

Page of a Book - 29 July 2013

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Introduction The purpose of this section is to introduce the key issues and decisions required when establishing or restructuring an agency with responsibility for exercising national...

Page of a Book - 29 July 2013

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Who uses a national bibliography? While there is good evidence and understanding of the use of national bibliographies in libraries, there is a lack of substantial data on other users. In...

Page of a Book - 29 July 2013

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[...] The national bibliography defined as a bibliographic system or a special national bibliography is relatively new. The phrase "national bibliography" appears in the...

Page of a Book - 29 July 2013

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The changes brought about by the World Wide Web together with the dramatic growth of digital media have called into question many key assumptions on which national bibliography was founded....

Page of a Book - 5 July 2013

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Introduction A critical issue to be considered by a national bibliographic agency (NBA) as it considers the creation and maintenance of its national bibliography is what it should contain...

Page of a Book - 5 July 2013

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[A-H]   [I-K]   [L-N]   [O-R] Contents Purpose and value Organisation Scoping and selection Resource...

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[A-H]   [I-K]   [L-N]   [S-Z] Contents Purpose and value Organisation Scoping and selection Resource,...

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[A-H]   [I-K]   [O-R]   [S-Z] Contents Purpose and value Organisation Scoping and selection Resource,...

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  [A-H]   [L-N]   [O-R]   [S-Z] Contents Purpose and value Organisation Scoping and selection Resource,...

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What is a national bibliography? Contents Purpose and value Definitions Integration into a portfolio...

Informational Page - 11 June 2013

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Possible Selection Criteria For Digital Resources Contents Purpose and value Organisation Scoping and selection Recent...

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Selective Exclusion of Digital Resources Contents Purpose and value Organisation Scoping and selection Recent international...

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Digital Formats Contents Purpose and value Organisation Scoping and selection Recent international recommendations...

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Content Contents Purpose and value Organisation Scoping and selection Recent international recommendations...

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Financial Implications Contents Purpose and value Organisation Scoping and selection Recent international recommendations...

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Selective Exclusion of Digital Resources Contents Purpose and value Organisation Scoping and selection Recent international...

Informational Page - 7 June 2013

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National Bibliographic Agency Selection & Exclusions Policies Contents Purpose and value Organisation Scoping and selection...

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Selection or Exclusion Policies? Contents Purpose and value Organisation Scoping and selection Recent international...

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Recommendations Contents Purpose and value Organisation Scoping and selection Recent international recommendations...

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The program will start with presentations to introduce access technology products, software and devices. Participants will then visit a "Technology Petting Zoo," where people (companies...

Event - 30 May 2013

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Re-use of records & derived cataloguing Contents Purpose and value Definitions Integration into a portfolio...

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Collection development librarians Contents Purpose and value Definitions Integration into a portfolio...

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Cataloguers Contents Purpose and value Definitions Integration into a portfolio International recommendations...

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Acquisitions Librarians Contents Purpose and value Definitions Integration into a portfolio International...

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Computer Software Applications (including federated search, distributed search, data harvesting robots etc) Contents Purpose and value Definitions...

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Rights Management Organisations Contents Purpose and value Definitions Integration into a portfolio International...

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Publishers Contents Purpose and value Definitions Integration into a portfolio International recommendations...

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Libraries Contents Purpose and value Definitions Integration into a portfolio International recommendations...

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End-users Contents Purpose and value Definitions Integration into a portfolio International recommendations...

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Book Trade (& other media vendors) Contents Purpose and value Definitions Integration into a portfolio...

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Agencies Contents Purpose and value Definitions Integration into a portfolio International recommendations...

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The evolving concept of a national bibliography Contents Purpose and value Definitions Integration into a portfolio...

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Persistent themes Contents Purpose and value Definitions Integration into a portfolio International...

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New Factors Contents Purpose and value Definitions Integration into a portfolio International recommendations...

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The 2012 Warsaw Conference Contents Purpose and value Definitions Integration into a portfolio International...

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2010 A changing context – the IFLA Working Group on Guidelines for National Bibliographies in a Digital Age Contents Purpose and value Definitions...

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1998 – 2002 International Conference on National Bibliographic Services (ICNBS) Contents Purpose and value Definitions Integration into a...

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1977 – UNESCO/IFLA International Congress on National Bibliographies Contents Purpose and value Definitions Integration into...

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1950 – UNESCO Conference on the Improvement of Bibliographical Services Contents Purpose and value Definitions Integration...

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  Who uses a national bibliography?   Contents Purpose and value Definitions Integration into a portfolio...

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Use Case - The United Kingdom Contents Purpose and value Definitions Integration into a portfolio International...

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  Contents Purpose and value Definitions Integration into a portfolio International recommendations...

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National Bibliographic Agencies and the role of national libraries Contents Purpose and value Definitions Integration into...

Informational Page - 3 May 2013

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[I-K]  [L-N]  [O-R]  [S-Z] Contents Purpose and value Organisation Scoping and selection Resource, description and...

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Introduction Contents Purpose and value Organisation Scoping and selection Recent international recommendations...

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Contents Purpose and value Organisation Scoping and selection Resource, description and standards Service delivery...

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Establishing the need for a national bibliography Contents Purpose and value Definitions Integration into a portfolio...

Informational Page - 2 May 2013

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On behalf of IFLA, the Public Libraries Section chair Suzanne Payette warmly congratulates and thanks Vít Richter of the National Library of the Czech Republic who coordinated the Czech...

News - 25 April 2013

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Form to capture the metadata of an av media - 2012 (Technische Informationsbibliothek) MODS - Metadata Object Description Schema (Library of Congress) NTM-Metadata-Schema for non-...

Informational Page - 5 September 2012

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At its meeting of 19th August 2011, the IFLA Governing Board set up an Advisory Group to draft Principles of Engagement to be used by IFLA and its members in library-related activities of disaster...

Publication - 22 May 2012

Tags: Advocacy, Best practices, Conservation, Cooperation, Cultural heritage, Cultural Heritage topic, Development, Disaster management, Disaster relief, International cooperation, Library and information profession, Preservation, Procedures, Publications, Risk assessment, Society, Sustainability, Publications

On behalf of IFLA, the Public Libraries Section chair Suzanne Payette warmly congratulates Silvia Stasselova and colleagues from the Slovak Librarians Association for recently completing the Slovak...

News - 1 March 2012

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2011 Best Practices for Government Libraries. e-Initiatives and e-Efforts: Expanding our Horizons has been launched. This year edition includes around 70 articles and communications by more than...

News - 6 July 2011

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The third issue of the FAIFE Newsletter has just been released in preparation for the upcoming IFLA Annual Conference which will take place in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Please enjoy it and...

News - 30 June 2011

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Best practices, Conferences, Freedom of expression, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)

This one-day conference—aimed at library and information professionals in all sectors and at all levels—focuses on providing tools and sharing expertise for library advocacy in the...

Event - 8 April 2011

Tags: Advocacy, Best practices, Conference, Freedom of information, Library and information science education, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)

The full text papers and presentations are already available at the conference website. There are English and Spanish versions.

News - 3 May 2010

Tags: Best practices, Conferences, Spain, Government Libraries

Mid-Term Conference Case Studies in Government Libraries  Museu d'Història de Catalunya 3 Plaça Pau Vila (Palau de Mar building) Auditorium (4th floor) 08003 Barcelona,...

Informational Page - 16 December 2009

Tags: Barcelona, Best practices, Catalonia, Conferences, Conferences, Government libraries, Spain, Success stories, Government Libraries

Australia -  Gosford City Library, Gosford Application Send us your best practice using the form in Microsoft Word format or in PDF format.

Informational Page - 27 May 2009

Tags: Best practices, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

Croatia - The Medvescak Public Library, Zagreb Japan - Fukuoka Prefectural Public Library Netherlands - Public Library Groenlo, Groenlo Application Send us your best...

Informational Page - 27 May 2009

Tags: Best practices, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

Croatia – The Medvescak Public Library, Zagreb Japan – Children's Services, Yokohama City Libraries Japan – Fukuoka Prefectural Public Library...

Informational Page - 27 May 2009

Tags: Best practices, Children, Young adults, Libraries for Children and Young Adults

1) Contact ENSULIB team: ensulib123@gmail.com 2) Direct access to the page of the general  "Environment, Sustainability and Libraries" SIG's mailing list...

Informational Page - 26 May 2009

Tags: Awareness, Best practices, Climate change, Collection development, Conservation, Ecology, Energy savings, Environment, Green, Green living, Library buildings and equipment, Management, Preservation, Sustainability, Environment, Sustainability and Libraries