Section on Bibliography Newsletter
June 2002

1. Introduction

Dear colleagues and friends,

You will find in this issue of the Newsletter the most important information on the Section’s activities in Glasgow, the new version of the Strategic Plan as approved by the Professional Board, and also a call for papers for the next issue of the Newsletter.

We wish you a happy holiday season and we are looking forward to meeting with you in Glasgow.

2. Activities of the Section at the IFLA annual conference in Glasgow

1. Main activities and plans of the Section on Bibliography – a Brief Summary (Bohdana Stoklasova)
	2. Encouraging co-operation between the publishing industry and national bibliographic agencies in the production of national biblographies. Introducing the Open Session (Talbott Huey)
3. Bibliographic control or chaos? Introducing the Workshop (Kirsten Waneck)
	4. Disseminating the ICNBS recommendations, projects and survey results to the national bibliographic agencies. Introducing activities and plans of the working group (Unni Knutsen)

140. Bibliography and National Libraries

• Effective collaboration between deposit libraries and publishers in the United Kingdom
  JOHN BYFORD (The British Library, London, UK)

• TBA
  ALAN DANSKIN (The British Library, London, UK)

• Collaboration and conflict between deposit libraries and publishers in the Czech Republic
  BOHDANA STOKLASOVA (National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic)

• TBA
  GRAHAM TAYLOR (British Publishers Association, UK)

Chair, Talbott Huey, Michigan State University Libraries; Secretary, Section on Bibliography

At the Section on Bibliography’s open meeting at the IFLA conference in Boston, Michael Gorman presented a paper with the title “Bibliographic control or chaos: an agenda for national bibliographic services in the 21^st century.” At the same conference, at the Section’s workshop (held jointly with the Section on National Libraries), Marcelle Beaudiquez gave a paper titled “Which usefulness for national bibliographies in the future?” In the paper she also treated the challenges for the national bibliographic agencies and for national bibliographies caused by net publications, and suggested the Section on Bibliography and the Section on National Libraries take up this challenge.

This is what the Section on Bibliography and the Section on National Libraries have done in arranging this joint workshop at the Glasgow Conference. We have borrowed (with his permission) the title of the workshop from Michael Gorman’s Boston paper.

It is evident that a major challenge for the National Bibliographic Agencies in the 21^st century will be how to set the agenda for treating remote electronic resources. Likewise it is evident and essential that the challenges of treating electronic resources should be discussed widely and that experiences should be exchanged and best practices presented.

The emphasis of the workshop will be on the bibliographic part, not on legal deposit and copyright matters, as these are being treated in another half-day workshop arranged by the Section on National Libraries. The workshop will present a general overview of the topic and a number of presentations of projects and best practice in Europe, Australia, Russia and the U.S. The presentations cover general and strategic approaches to the subject as well as practical approaches.

Speakers at the workshop are:

John Byrum, Library of Congress Challenges of electronic resources in the (national) bibliographies: a general overview.
Elena Zhabko, National Library of Russia Internet projects and bibliographic activities in Russia.
Pam Gatenby, National Library of Australia (co-author on the paper is Peter Haddad) Providing Bibliographic Access to Archived Online Resources: The National Library of Australia’s Approach.

Randi Diget Hansen, The Danish Bibliographic Centre
A multifaceted strategy for a National Bibliography of electronic resources.

Stina Degerstedt, The Royal Library in Sweden Cataloguing and organizing library workflow – New ways.