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2016 Call for Papers

The Bibliography Section would like to announce its panel program for IFLA WLIC 2016: Opening the National Bibliography: Transforming Access to Data and Building Connections.
National bibliographies provide a valuable record of the intellectual output of a country and its cultures. Formatting national catalog data to be harvestable, or presenting it as linked data, opens these resources to scholars worldwide. In this panel session, we invite papers discussing how national bibliographies have been made more accessible and the possibilities opened by that accessibility. Papers can address methodology for providing harvestable and/or linked data, how national bibliographies can be used in creating new knowledge, and national bibliographic data can be used in scholarly communication.

Please submit paper proposals of less than 500 words by *10 February 2016* to:

Rebecca Lubas

Please also feel free to ask questions about the scope of your proposal.

Call For Papers from the IFLA Bibliography SC

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”.

International Workshop on the Development and Implementation of Online National Bibliographies in French-Speaking West Africa

Reports 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 presentations as did Genevieve Clavel-Merrin, member of the National Libraries Section Standing Committee and Janifer Gatenby of OCLC.