The Bibliography Section is making a call for papers for the IFLA WLIC in Helsinki on the theme:
What is a national bibliography today and what are its potential uses?

Proposals may include, but are not limited to the following topics:

• What should be in a national bibliography in the digital age?
• Is our common understanding of the terms “National Bibliography” and “National Bibliographic Agency” drastically changing?
• Official and commercial national bibliographies and the new models of bibliographic information
• Dissemination of national bibliography data and emerging needs arising from the semantic web
• National bibliographies and authoritative data: how to provide trusted data in a national bibliography? (role of authority files, repositories, lists of codes, etc.

E-mail proposals should be sent, no later than February 1st, 2012 to:

Françoise Bourdon
E-mail: francoise.bourdon@bnf.fr,
Grazyna Jaroszewicz
E-mail: g.jaroszewicz@gmail.com and
Miriam Nauri
E-mail: Miriam.Nauri@kb.se

• Please indicate in the subject line “IFLA 2012 Helsinki proposal”.