Lithuanian National Bibliography
| Title | The Lithuanian National Bibliography |
| Web site address |
National Bibliographic Data Bank (NBDB): https://www.lnb.lt/atradimai/katalogai/nacionalines-bibliografijos-duomenu-bankas |
| Start date | Began 1922 |
| Period covered |
1547 to date – books 1823 to date – serials |
| Current size |
Over 3 683 550 records in the National Bibliographic Data Bank (NBDB) (January, 2020) |
| Media covered |
Books, serials, dissertations, printed music, maps, graphics, small prints, sound and video/audio records, offline electronic resources, publications in Braille, standards and normative documents, articles in serials |
| General selection criteria |
Documents in various languages published in Lithuania or abroad in Lithuanian language, or related to Lithuania in terms of author and language, regardless of their place of publication |
| Selection criteria for digital resources | Same as printed |
| Exclusions policies applied | Grey literature, ephemera, booklets, announcements, patents, computer games, etc. |
| Primary organisation responsible for national bibliographic control | National Bibliographic Control Unit of the Information Sciences Department at Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania |
| Web site address of national bibliographic agency | |
| Co-operative structures or relationships supporting the production of the national bibliography |
Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania (NLL) act as the Lithuanian ISSN, ISBN and ISMN agency and constantly is developing cooperation with publishers. Retrospective national bibliography is compiled in cooperation with Vilnius University Library, the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Kaunas County Public Library, other regional libraries, archives, museums. |
| Single integrated or multiple categorised bibliographies |
The National Bibliography Data Bank contains current and retrospective national bibliography data. Current national bibliography: Weekly: Forthcoming documents; Information on published documents in Lithuania, received at the National Library. Annually: “Bibliographical News. Books” “Bibliographical News. Serials” “Bibliographical News. Sound Recordings, Videorecordings and Electronic Resources” “Bibliographical News. Doctoral dissertations” Retrospective national bibliography: Series A. Books in Lithuanian, 1547–1940 (including small prints, maps, printed music, graphics); Series B. Lithuanian Serials, 1823–1940; Series C. Publications from Lithuanian Serials, 1832–1919; Lithuanian Hebrew Books, 1759–1940; Polish Books published in Lithuania in 16–18th centuries; Latin Books published in Lithuania in 16–17th centuries. |
| Sources of bibliographic metadata used to produce national bibliography |
Bibliographic records to produce current bibliography are created in-house, when documents received by legal deposit copy at the National Library. Bibliographic records to produce retrospective national bibliography are created additionally using other sources of outside institutions (libraries, museums, archives) |
| Relationship to national legal deposit legislation or voluntary deposit arrangements |
The Lithuanian National Bibliography includes the material provided under the Resolution of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania “On the Substitution of the Resolution of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania of 22 November 1996 No. 1389 ‘On the Order of Delivery of Legal Deposit Copies of Publications and Other Documents to Libraries'” of 6 December 2017 No. 999 |
| Relationship to national Cataloguing in Publication (CIP) programme |
NLL creates CIP records. This is the primary bibliographic data about the forthcoming document. After receiving of the document the national level bibliographic record is created |
| Form of publication of the National Bibliography |
Current bibliography (PDF): Weekly: Bibliographic information about forthcoming documents: https://www.lnb.lt/atradimai/leidiniai/kiti-leidiniai/numatomi-leidiniai Bibliographic information on published documents in Lithuania, received by legal deposit copy at the National Library: Annual national bibliographic indexes: “Bibliographical News. Books” “Bibliographical News. Serials” “Bibliographical News. Sound Recordings, Videorecordings and Electronic Resources” “Bibliographical News. Doctoral dissertations” Online list of the printed Lithuanian National Bibliographic indexes: https://www.lnb.lt/atradimai/leidiniai/nacionalines-bibliografijos-leidiniai Annually publishing statistics includes data on publishing output in Lithuania: https://www.lnb.lt/atradimai/leidiniai/nacionalines-bibliografijos-leidiniai |
| Access options to national bibliographic metadata |
National Bibliography as open data https://www.lnb.lt/apie-biblioteka/administracine-informacija/atviri-duomenys |
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Online access options |
Server settings for getting access to or downloading the metadata: server’s name: z39.libis.lt; port: 212 www-opac access to National Bibliographic Data Bank: |
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Formats & media available for delivery of record sets from the national bibliography |
Online download list in RTF |
| Metadata enhancements offered via online services |
Metadata have links to digital objects created under the Strategy for Digitization of the Lithuanian Cultural Heritage. Part of digital objects have full text. The data bank of digital cultural heritage: http://www.epaveldas.lt/home |
| Web 2.0 services offered | None offered |
| Frequency of service updates |
Online Data Bank – daily |
| Target audiences for services |
Academic/public libraries, bibliographers, bibliophiles, booksellers, book trade, publishers, students, researchers, scientists, general audience |
| Uses made of services offered |
Acquisition/selection, advance notification of publications, source for copy-cataloguing, retrospective conversion, regional, personal and thematic bibliographies, understanding national publishing output |
| Pricing policy for national bibliographic services |
Free of charge, printed national bibliography indexes are paid |
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Under what conditions may the metadata be re-used for other products? |
Free to use for non-commercial purpose and with obligation not to change data about cataloguing source |
| Metadata formats | UNIMARC |
| Cataloguing rules or code | ISBD |
| Levels of description offered |
National bibliographic level |
| Subject standards: Classification | UDC (notation translated into Lithuanian) |
| Subject standards: Subject heading scheme or thesaurus | LCSH (version developed on the basis Library of Congress Subject Headings) |
| Name authority standards or name authority file | UNIMARC/A |
| Is NBA affiliated to IFLA SC? | Yes |
| Date information submitted | 01.09.2020 |
| Information supplied by |
Nijolė Bliūdžiuvienė, Director of Information Sciences Department |