Swiss Book
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 |
Last update: 5 October 2012