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Guidelines For The Future – Sharing Best Practice For National Bibliographies In A Digital Age

25 June 2015 – nwilson

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 were founded. At the IFLA Bibliography Standing Committee’s Warsaw satellite meeting to the IFLA 2012 Congress a new web based resource was […]

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‘National Bibliographies Transformed: Matters Relating to the Legal Deposit of Electronic Resources’ – The Bibliography Section Open Session at IFLA WLIC 2015

25 June 2015 – nwilson

In addition to its section meetings, the Bibliography Section has organised an open session during the 2015 Cape Town conference addressing the legal deposit of electronic resources and the challenges it can pose to national bibliographic agencies. In many countries the scope of legal deposit is being extended to include electronic resources. […]

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German National Library Offers Over 11 million MARC21 Records Under CC0 Open License

6 August 2013 – nwilson

11.5 million free bibliographic data items now available from the German National Library in MARC 21 format All the bibliographic data of the German National Library offered under “Creative Commons Zero” conditions are available free of charge as a complete package in MARC 21 format for free use. Included are […]

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Bibliography in a Digital Age IFLA Satellite Meeting Warsaw, 9th August 2012

17 August 2012 – nwilson

A satellite meeting of the main IFLA Conference in Helsinki took place in Warsaw on 9th August 2012, kindly hosted by the National Library of Poland. The purpose of the event was to share: experiences, techniques and challenges in the creation and management of national bibliographic services and to begin […]

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Categories: Advocacy Issues, Business Models, Conferences, General, History & Background, National Bibliographies in the Digital Age, Organisation & Administration, Scoping Issues, Service Options, Standards Issues and Technology Issues | Closed

Call For Papers from the IFLA Bibliography SC

11 January 2012 – nwilson

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 […]

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Bibliography on Swiss History (BSH) now available online

31 October 2011 – nwilson

Dear Sir / Madam, Dear Colleagues We are pleased to inform you that all issues of the Bibliography on Swiss History (BSH) are now available online. The BSH volumes 1913-1974 have been scanned, OCRd, structured and uploaded to the retro.seals.ch site under the heading “DDC-940: History of Europe”. The digitization […]

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The British Library announces new free data options

22 September 2010 – nwilson

The British Library has announced that it is going to offer two new ways for libraries and researchers to access its bibliographic data including the British National Bibliography. These are: A free Z39.50 service for libraries to selectively download records in MARC21 Bulk data sets in XML (RDF/DC) for researchers […]

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