South African National Bibliography
Title | South African National Bibliography (SANB) |
Web site address | http://www.nlsa.ac.za/ |
Start date | 1926 |
Period covered |
Printed format covering 1926 – 1958 published as the Retrospective SANB (RSANB); the period 1959 – 1999 as the SANB. (We do, however, have materials published from ± 1890). Online via the SANB scope of the National Library’s catalogue and since 1999 also on WorldCat. |
Current size | Approximately 246 000 records added up to end September 2010 |
Media covered | Monographs, pamphlets, government publications, microforms, maps, electronic media, videos, periodicals, newspapers, published conference proceedings, SA standards and specifications |
General selection criteria | All materials published in South Africa, excluding materials indicated below. |
Selection criteria for digital resources | In process |
Exclusions policies applied | Parliamentary bills and amendments to bills, individual entries for annual reports, unpublished conference proceedings, picture strips, trade catalogues, parliamentary papers, sheet music, ephemera, pamphlets of fewer than 5 pages, house journals and school magazines |
Primary organisation responsible for national bibliographic control | Single National Library (with two campuses); acting as National Bibliographic Agency |
Web site address of national bibliographic agency | http://www.nlsa.ac.za/ |
Co-operative structures or relationships supporting the production of the national bibliography | The NLSA is also the ISN Agency for South Africa; also works in close cooperation with various publisher organisations in SA |
Single integrated or multiple categorised bibliographies | Single national bibliography covers all publications |
Sources of bibliographic metadata used to produce national bibliography | Data created in-house |
Relationship to national legal deposit legislation or voluntary deposit arrangements | Materials included received by the NBA under the national Legal Deposit Act, Act 54 of 1997. Same Act covers electronic and digital media |
Relationship to national Cataloguing in Publication (CIP) programme | No |
Media & format options | Printed catalogues up to 1999; from 2000 onwards available on webOPAC nationally and internationally |
Access options to national bibliographic metadata | WebOPAC (Millennium) |
Metadata enhancements offered via online services | No |
Web 2.0 services offered | None |
Frequency of service updates | Daily |
Target audiences for services | Library and Information Services (LIS) community |
Uses made of services offered | To find and verify bibliographic information, selection and acquisition purposes, interlending and reference and information services |
Pricing policy for national bibliographic services | Free access to webOPAC |
Availability of metadata for re-use | Metadata available without restriction |
Metadata formats | MARC21, |
Cataloguing code | AACR2, LCRI |
Levels of description offered | ISBD, AACR Level 3 |
Subject standards | DDC22 |
Name authority standards | NACO (PCC) |
Is NBA affiliated to IFLA SC? | Yes. A corresponding member of the IFLA Bibliography Section Standing Committee |
Date information submitted | 11 November 2010 |
Information supplied by | Elmaré Broodryk, Programme Executive, Bibliographic Services and Collections Management |