| Title |
Current title: Das Schweizer Buch = Le Livre Suisse = Il Libro svizzro = Il Cudesch svizzer = The Swiss Book |
| Web site address |
Description and access possibilities |
| Start date |
1871 |
| Period covered |
1871 |
| Current size |
223731 (2001-) |
| Media covered |
Digital only offline, Printed books, serials, maps, printed music (nr. 16), mixed materials, video, no audio |
| General selection criteria |
Includes ‘national’ material created throughout the world |
| Selection criteria for digital resources |
Only offline documents (-> will be changed in ????) |
| Exclusions policies applied |
Online documents |
| Primary organisation responsible for national bibliographic control |
Swiss National Library ((NL)1901- |
| Web site address of national bibliographic agency |
National Bibliographic Agency |
| Co-operative structures or relationships supporting the production of the national bibliography |
ISSN Centre (= part of the NL) |
| Single integrated or multiple categorised bibliographies |
BSG, Bibliographie zur Schweizergeschichte (Swiss history bibliography) |
| Sources of bibliographic metadata used to produce national bibliography |
Data created in-house (extract from the catalogue Helveticat) |
| Relationship to national legal deposit legislation or voluntary deposit arrangements |
Agreement with the Schweizer Buchhändler- und Verleger-Verband |
| Relationship to national Cataloguing in Publication (CIP) programme |
without CIP programme |
| Media & format options |
PDF (static version)or via « The Swiss book-interface » (dynamic version) |
| Access options to national bibliographic metadata |
Web interface, Z39.50 |
| Metadata enhancements offered via online services |
Not yet |
| Web 2.0 services offered |
Not envisaged |
| Frequency of service updates |
Bimonthly, (for the dynamic version also annual and a certain period) |
| Target audiences for services |
Libraries, booksellers and editors, all web users |
| Uses made of services offered |
Acquisition help, literature search, used also as new acquisition list |
| Pricing policy for national bibliographic services |
Cost-free |
| Availability of metadata for re-use |
Limited metadata export is possible |
| Metadata formats |
MARC21 |
| Cataloguing code |
AACR2 |
| Levels of description offered |
AACR2 |
| Subject standards |
SWD |
| Name authority standards |
AACR2 |
| Is NBA affiliated to IFLA SC? |
yes |