National Bibliography Research Articles

Indian National Bibliography: Past, Present and Future

This article discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the bibliographic coverage of the Indian National Bibliography, with its multiplicity of languages and scripts, and compares INB with a number of prominent bibliographies around the world. The Indian National Bibliography is affected with the disease of sluggishness in publication and incomplete coverage. The author describes the application of ICT and the level of success that INB has achieved with regard to its timeliness and comprehensiveness. The publication's workflow uses a customized version of the library system Libsys, version IV, with transliteration using diacritical marks and GIST (Graphics and Intelligence based Script Technology) to overcome language problems. The Central Reference Library, Kolkata, which compiles the bibliography, is currently working towards implementation of UNICODE and discarding GIST to facilitate international cooperation and data exchange. The author examines a number of aspects of the bibliography's production, with special emphasis on remedial measures to be followed to improve currency and coverage.

Polska bibliografia narodowa bieżąca na tle tendencji europejskich – obserwacje z początku wieku

The article presents Polish current national bibliography against a background of national bibliographies in: Czech Republic, France, German, Great Britain, Lithuania, Slovakia Sweden and Russia. The analyze concerns: general selection criteria, numbers of series, sort of bibliographic records, schedule of print series, forms of publications and institutions in charge of current national bibliographies.

Współczesna prasa mniejszości etnicznych w Polsce w przestrzeni społecznej – wybrane obszary

The author has discussed some of the problems of journals edited by ethnic minorities in Poland between the years 1989-2007. He has taken and described the most important tittles from a wide range of at least one hundred such journals. The author then showed on what scale these periodicals were registered in the national bibliography. Finally he has given several examples of library stocks (universities and public libraries), which are still collecting these ethnic minority journals. It appears that the number of these titles are very little.

The National Libraries of the Countries of the Francophonie: A Comparative Study

The International Organization of the Francophonie (Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, OIF) which developed over the last decades of the twentieth century brings together, as of 2008, 53 State and government full members and 13 observer members, spread out over five continents. The Répertoire des bibliothèques nationales de la Francophonie, which is in its third edition (2008), presents index cards on every national library, or library fulfilling such a role, of each member or observer country. After presenting an overview of the International Organization of the Francophonie, this article looks at the creation of the national library in each country, legal deposit and national bibliography. Then, communication (websites) and international relations (membership of IFLA) are addressed. Of the 63 countries surveyed, only 9 countries do not have a national library, although the majority of these nine countries have another institution – a national documentation centre, public or parliamentary library or national archives – that normally fulfils the functions of a national library. It must be recognized that there is a large disparity between the national libraries of developed countries in Europe and North America and those in developing countries of sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Antilles. In some sub-Saharan African countries, the national library has only a nominal existence.

The Joy of Finding Periodicals "Not in Danky"

This essay examines the seminal reference tool, African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998), edited by James P. Danky. It provides background on the creation of this highly acclaimed volume and demonstrates its usefulness in building a research collection of rare periodical literature in African American history and culture. It also documents efforts to build such a collection at Emory University.

Serving the bibliographic needs of scholars in Tanzania: a case study of the Tanzania Library Services Board

Introduction What difference does up-to-date bibliographic information make in a poor developing country like Tanzania? The honest answer is none at all, if it is not possible to go beyond the bibliographic reference to the actual item itself. For many African scholars, browsing through a bibliography is like looking at goods in a shop window: pointless without the ability and means to acquire what is on display. That said, bibliographies are of great value to scholars in institutions with libraries that do possess the means to build up and maintain good collections. This is an overview of the bibliographic needs of Tanzania’s scholars, and of some of the issues that they and their libraries face. In particular, I discuss: the need for bibliographies, the bibliographic needs of scholars, how well their needs are addressed, the state of national bibliographies, what more can be done to make African scholarship available in Europe and America, the roles for libraries in Africa, and the way forward. The essay uses the specific case study of the Tanzania Library Services Board (TLSB). TLSB is a national-cum-public library system that, at the moment, operates a national library, and a network of nineteen regional and fifteen district libraries. This system serves quite a number of scholars, and publishes the Tanzania National Bibliography (TNB). The case study includes findings from a small survey of scholars who visit the library, and from TLSB staff. TLSB statistics and other library and documentary sources support the analysis.

Building bridges, building a bibliography of Australian children's fiction in German translation 1854–2007

This paper traces the process of creating a comprehensive bibliography of Australian children's novels translated into German. The exchange of literature between two cultures has often been expressed using the phrase, “books serve as bridges,” drawing on the idea that translation enables readers to access information that would otherwise be inaccessible. Building national bibliographies of translated literature is crucial to the recognition of existing bridges between cultures; the examination of a large body of national literature in translation allows for a deeper insight into some of the specific demands of translating literature for children, noting the prevailing trends and/or changes over time. In a wider context, the bibliography confirms the number of translations of Australian children's literature into German and points to a range of trends pertaining to any clear preference for the translation of works by certain Australian authors, as well as for the translation of particular genres, themes, and so on. The compilation of this bibliography formed the basis of a larger study into the translation of Australian children's fiction in German translation.

Review: Black and minority ethnic people are more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act 1983—no clear evidence why

Question: Compared with White people, how frequently are people from Black and Minority Ethnic groups detained under the Mental Health Act 1983? Outcomes: Rates of compulsory detention under the Mental...

National Bibliographies: The Chinese Experience

The printed version of the China National Bibliography was first published in 1987 and ceased to be published in 1994. It is replaced by the online services provided by the National Library of China. Because of the present situation of legal deposit policies in China, the national bibliography has narrow coverage. There is another kind of ‘national bibliography’ with wider coverage, but not done by librarians. In China, there are also problems of different forms of name authorities and different MARC records. The National Library of China is considering a National Union Catalogue to improve the national bibliographical services.

The Role of the National Library of Korea in the Competitiveness Enhancement of Libraries

The paper describes projects initiated by the National Library of Korea (NLK) with the aim of improving the nation's information competitiveness. The Library set up a library automation team in 1979, working for library automation in Korea generally as well as in the NLK. Firstly, the NLK developed an automation system for the national bibliography, which was collected and catalogued by the NLK. Secondly, the NLK developed the Korean Library Automation System (KOLAS), which has been distributed to both public libraries and government libraries throughout the entire nation. The system enables individual libraries to establish their own databases by downloading the national bibliographic database without performing original cataloguing locally. The NLK has provided libraries with the national bibliographic database on magnetic tapes, CD-ROMs, and online, according to changes in the technology environment. The NLK next developed a cost-effective resource sharing network system by launching the National Electronic Library in collaboration with major Korean libraries. This resource sharing system allows users to access library materials in cyberspace without visiting a specific library. The NLK has also been establishing a contents database for publications published in Korea. As of 2006, the NLK is planning to select outstanding materials from its legal deposit collection and provide links to the selected materials on the official NLK website, helping public libraries to select valuable works from legal deposit publications. With a library management information system introduced in 2005, the NLK can make decisions on open access stock for each reading room after analysing statistical reports for both open and closed stacks. Until now, the collections have been shelved by the year of publication. The library management information system will help library patrons use the library collection more conveniently and will be distributed to public libraries nationwide.

The National Library of Pakistan: an overview

Describes the history and development of the National Library of Pakistan, which was founded in 1949, merged with the Liquat Memorial Library in 1954 and separated again in 1968. The Library moved to its own building at Islamabad in 1988, and opened to the public in 1993. The Library is administered by the Department of Libraries of the Directorate of Libraries and Archives in the Ministry of Education. The prime function of the National Library of Pakistan is to receive, preserve, and maintain the literary heritage of the country under copyright provisions. The annual Pakistan National Bibliography is based on copyright receipts, mainly books. The National Library receives about 66 percent of serial publications and 50—55 percent of books published in the country. Electronic publications are not yet covered by the copyright laws. The Library assigns ISBNs to nearly half of all books published. Library membership and daily readership are very low and services to users very limited. The development of staff and services need immediate attention.

Türkiye’de Devlet Yayınlarının Bibliyografik Denetimi ve Devlet Yayınları Bibliyografyası

In Turkey, the institutions, which produce most publications in terms of publishing activities, are public institutions and establishments. Many public institutions and establishments, founded with laws in order to produce works and services for the public, publish assorted publications in various contents and types with the aim of introducing their own activities, purposes and targets. All these publications are called government or official publications. However, due to being published in limited numbers and distributed in narrower environment than other traditional sources, their access is described as limited sources as well. These characteristics of government publications necessitate being controlled more carefully. For this reason, a special bibliography had been prepared for only bibliographical control of those publications between 1971-1989, but its publication was stopped with the reason that two other important government publications, The Turkish National Bibliography and The Bibliography of Articles in Turkish Periodicals include the government publications. This case affected the control of the publications published by the public institutions and establishments negatively. In the study, producing, access and bibliographic control of government publications in our country are discussed with examples from foreign countries, and proposals particularly for bibliographical control of the government publications are offered.

National Bibliographies of the Post-Soviet Central Asian States

ABSTRACT After briefly summarizing information about the Central Asian countries and their libraries, the authors discuss the challenges facing the national bibliographic agencies there. In Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, the national bibliographies have ceased. In the other three countries, national bibliographic indexes are published, but only in print format, and they do not cover non-print material. Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are actively working to modernize their national bibliographies. Bibliographers in the other countries are ready to move to international standards and automation, but are hindered by logistical and financial problems. They would benefit greatly from assistance by the international bibliographic community.

Creating a National Bibliographic Past: The Institute for Hebrew Bibliography

The mission of the Institute for Hebrew Bibliography (IHB), located at the Jewish and National University Library (JNUL) in Jerusalem from the early 1960s to the present, is to describe all of the books printed in Hebrew characters since the invention of printing to 1960. The ambitious scope of the project was set only after discussions between historians and catalogers. The IHB created two card catalogs, one for bibliographic descriptions, and a second for biographies of Hebrew authors. The release, in 1994, of The Bibliography of the Hebrew Book CD-ROM, followed in 2002 by an Internet-accessible database (updated in 2004), are benchmarks that allow the public to assess the work of the IHB. Technological advances can be used to deliver a clean and easily searchable database only when basic concepts of cataloging/database retrieval have been fully addressed.

한국어 서지레코드에 있어 FRBR 모형의 유용성에 관한 연구

IFLA의 FRBR 모형은 서지레코드에 있어 매우 유용한 모형이다. 이 연구는 FRBR 모형의 저작개념을 바탕으로 국립중앙도서관의 서지레코드에 대한 실증적인 분석을 하였으며, KDC 주류별로 100건씩 1,000건의 서지레코드를 무작위 추출하여 FRBR 모형의 저작유형별 출현빈도를 조사하였다. 분석결과 FRBR 모형을 적용할 경우 유용성이 있을 것으로 예상되는 저작은 단순저작과 복잡저작을 합산한 16.9%로 나타났다. 그리고 서지적 관계가 복잡할수록 유용성이 높게 나타나며, 한 저작에 번역, 개정, 개작, 복제, 해설 등과 같은 다양한 저작유형을 동시에 갖고 있는 저작은 일부 문학류의 고전작품 등에 한정되어 있음을 알 수 있다. 또한 FRBR 모형의 저작개념을 보다 확대 적용하여 원작에 대한 해설이나 비평까지도 같은 범주의 저작개념에 포함하는 것이 더욱 유용성이 높을 것으로 나타났다. IFLA's FRBR model is a significant contribution to cataloging on both theoretical and practical grounds. This paper provides a brief overview of FRBR, a methodology for applying the FRBR work concept to a random sample of 1,000 bibliographic records taken from Korean National Bibliographic, and estimates of the number of works in Korean National Bibliographic and their associated characteristics, based on analysis of the sample. FRBR model can be applied to 16.9% of all works in Korean National Bibliographic. Results suggest that the majority of benefits associated with applying FRBR to Korean National Bibliographic could be obtained by concentrated on a relatively small number of complex works.

The Role Of Computer In Bibliographic Control Of Locally Published Materials In Nigeria

The Nigerian society has become sophisticated and need a variety of information to carry out its activities successfully. This paper emphasis the role of National Library as the only institution backed by legal deposit decree to act as the National Bibliographic Agency of Nigeria. This paper highlights the supposed role of National Library in the area of Bibliographic control as collection of both published and unpublished materials print and non-print including papers presented at seminars, conference of learned associations, research institutes, universities and ministries. The paper also brings to focus the subjects\' coverage in National Bibliography of Nigeria between 2001 and 2005. Also discusses the factors responsible for the poor state of Bibliographic control and those attempts made to correct the situation. A call for the establishment of an automated bibliographic control system needed to solve the present bibliographic problem in Nigeria. IFE PsychologIA Vol. 15 (2) 2007: pp. 212-225

Digitalisierung von Drucken des 17. Jahrhunderts an der Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Halle

A major challenge facing libraries in the next years is the creation of an integrated information environment by facilitating the access to digitized materials. In order to safeguard broad information supply, institutions increasingly rely on methods of mass digitization. This paper will give an introduction to a pilot study carried out at the University and State Library Saxony-Anhalt in Halle and supported by the German Research Foundation. It deals with the digitization of approximately 10.000 German imprints of the seventeenth century containing altogether about 600.000 pages, which have to be digitized within two years. The material of the Collection Ponickau has been catalogued in the German national bibliography of se venteenth century imprints (VD 17), which shall thus be enriched and turned into a virtual library by adding the digitized texts. The paper discusses aspects of public-private partnership, It investigates the means of presentation and indexing of digitized imprints in order to ensure their usability. It also sketches the workflow among the various partners involved in the process. The paper highlights the application of Visual Library, which contains various tools for automated creation of metadata, the implementation of persistent identifiers (URN) and the automated enrichment of catalogue entries within the regional cataloguing cooperative Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund (GBV). Special emphasis is given to questions of quality management, which is both guaranteed by a combination of automated tools and intellectual control at various stages of digitization and indexing processes.

National Bibliographies: past, present and future — the Korean experience

This paper presents the history and the current situation in Korea in terms of the national bibliography, national union catalog, legal deposit and other bibliographic control. The National Library of Korea has been playing key roles in the provision of complete bibliographic records of the available publications in Korea. The national bibliographies are becoming more diversified in terms of including different types of material. The National Library of Korea plans special projects for promoting the legal deposit system and preparing to revise its legislation to include more types of material, in particular electronic publications, as well as public relations. Within the next few years, a revised legal deposit act will comprise all forms of published materials and will be fully in agreement with the International Conference on National Bibliographic Services (ICNBS) recommendations.

Annotation: A Lost Art in Cataloguing

SUMMARY Public library catalogues in early twentieth-century Britain frequently included annotations, either to clarify obscure titles or to provide further information about the subject-matter of the books they described. Two manuals giving instruction on how to do this were published at that time. Following World War I, with the decline of the printed catalogue, this kind of annotation became rarer, and was almost confined to bulletins of new books. The early issues of the British National Bibliography included some annotations in exceptional cases. Parallels are drawn with the provision of table-of-contents information in present-day OPACs.

Moscow Publishing and Book Trade: Current State and Problems

ABSTRACT The author, head of the National Bibliography Department at the Russian Book Chamber, discusses publishing and the book trade in Moscow and Russia in general. He breaks the output for 2004 down by subject and provides statistics for number of titles, print run, wholesale price, and retail price.