Latvia National Bibliography
| Title | The National Bibliography of Latvia |
| Web site address |
https://lnb.lv/en/catalogues-and-databases/national-bibliography |
| Start date | Began 1920 |
| Period covered | 1525 to date |
| Current size |
About 4 500 000 records (04.2018.) |
| Media covered | Printed publications (books and serials), e-resources, electronic off-line publications; maps, printed music, graphics, small prints, video/audio and sound records, articles in periodicals |
| General selection criteria | Includes resources published in Latvia, resources on Latvia or created by Latvian authors published throughout the world |
| Selection criteria for digital resources | Main criteria: on-line books and serials, resources of culture-historical importance, scientific and educational resources, resources with “Latvian” content |
| Exclusions policies applied | Computer games, ephemera, news, blogs etc. |
| Primary organisation responsible for national bibliographic control | National bibliographic agency – the Bibliography Institute – is a structural unit of the National Library of Latvia (NLL) |
| Web site address of national bibliographic agency |
Bibliography Institute https://lnb.lv/en/structure/bibliography-institute ISBN/ISMN Agency https://lnb.lv/en/publishers/isbn-and-ismn ISSN Centre https://lnb.lv/en/publishers/issn Standardization https://lnb.lv/en/librarians/standardization Legal deposit https://lnb.lv/en/publishers/legal-deposit |
| Co-operative structures or relationships supporting the production of the national bibliography |
ISBN/ISMN and ISSN agencies are part of NBA. Latvian Publishers' Association (LPA): http://www.gramatizdeveji.lv/index_en.php Latvian Association of Press Publishers: http://www.lpia.lv |
| Single integrated or multiple categorised bibliographies |
Single access point through discovery service "Primo": Separate databases still exist:
1) e-catalogue of NLL (monographs of the national bibliography since 2018) 5) e-resources, electronic off-line publications (in e-catalogue of NLL)
6) video/audio and sound records (in e-catalogue of NLL) |
| Sources of bibliographic metadata used to produce national bibliography | Data are created in-house as well as derived from publishers, other libraries and private company archive (articles in periodicals) |
| Relationship to national legal deposit legislation or voluntary deposit arrangements | Publications are received under national Legal Deposit Law (includes also e-publications and online publications) http://likumi.lv/doc.php?id=136682 |
| Relationship to national Cataloguing in Publication (CIP) programme |
Prepublication records are not included in the national bibliography since 2018 |
| Media & format options | Online databases; PDF |
| Access options to national bibliographic metadata | Web catalogue, Z39.50 |
| Metadata enhancements offered via online services | Book jackets; tables of content, annotations, reviews, links to full text |
| Web 2.0 services offered | — |
| Frequency of service updates |
Online databases – daily; New Books from Latvia (PDF) – biweekly; The Index of Periodicals (PDF) – annual |
| Target audiences for services | Academic / public libraries; publishers; book sellers; researchers; general public |
| Uses made of services offered |
Acquisition/selection; Derived cataloguing; Retrospective conversion; References;
New Books from Latvia (PDF)
The Index of Periodicals (PDF) |
| Pricing policy for national bibliographic services |
National bibliography operates on a free basis |
| Availability of metadata for re-use | Without restriction |
| Metadata formats | MARC21 |
| Cataloguing code |
RDA since 2017 |
| Levels of description offered |
National bibliographic level |
| Subject standards | LCSH (version in Latvian); UDC (notations are translated into Latvian) |
| Name authority standards | RDA |
| Is NBA affiliated to IFLA SC? | Yes |
| Date information submitted | 20.04.2018 |
| Information supplied by |
Ilva Ake, Expert of National Bibliography, Data and Knowledge Management Department, Bibliography Institute, National Library of Latvia |