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XXV Anniversary Annual Conference of the Russian Library Association, May 2021

3 June 2021 – Pat Riva

The XXV Anniversary Annual Conference of the Russian Library Association took place in Petrozavodsk (Karelia) in May 2021. The Forum gathered delegates from different regions of Russia and foreign countries. The main theme of all the events of the congress is Library 2030: Building the Future Today. Three fundamental goals […]

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Bibliographic Information in Digital Culture, 3rd International Bibliographic Congress, April 27-30, 2021

3 May 2021 – Pat Riva

This III International Bibliographic Congress was organized by the State Public Scientific and Technical Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPSTL SB RAS), Novosibirsk. It follows the first congress held in 2010 at the Russian National Library and the second in 2015 at the Russian […]

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ISNI in Quebec

8 March 2021 – Pat Riva

Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) announced joining the ISNI network as a registration agency (RA) for Quebec on 3 July 2019 (press release-French). At the Congrès des professionnel.le.s de l’information (CPI) held 2-6 November 2020, three members of the project team presented their implementation of ISNI services: “BAnQ, […]

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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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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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Providing JAPAN/MARC in MARC21 format

6 January 2012 – oshiba

The National Diet Library, Japan (NDL), adopts the MARC21 format for the JAPAN/MARC, a machine-readable form of the Japanese National Bibliography, from January 2012. At the same time, the NDL shifts character set for bibliographic records to Unicode for international use. From January 2012, it is also possible to download […]

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Linked Open BNB Preview Now Available

15 July 2011 – bibliography

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 […]

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