The International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD) is the only open and freely available bibliographic standard with the goal of ensuring access to information by making bibliographic data available, interoperable and shareable, across all countries and languages in the world. The Review Group… Read More
In the last years an increasing number of libraries are adopting RDA as a cataloguing standard. Still, what happens to their rare materials? Read More
IFLA Cataloguing Section invite you to submit a proposal for the open session “Sharing is caring” (83rd WLIC - Wrocław, Poland, 19-25 August 2017). Deadline 28 February 2017. Read More
This special issue of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly contains the proceedings of the Section’s satellite meeting held in Tallinn, Estonia, in August 2012. In it, authors from many different countries describe ways that they are addressing user needs through subject access design and the creation of subject metadata for… Read More
Project goals and objectives The ISBD consolidated edition of 2011 has positioned this IFLA standard as a core standard for universal bibliographic control, while its representation in the W3C RDF standard (work done by the ISBD/XML Study Group) enables its use within the… Read More
*** Superseded contents *** *** Go to ISBD Linked Data Study Group for updated information *** Goals and objectives IFLA Cataloguing Section's ISBD Review Group approved the recommendations from its Material Designation Study Group to develop an… Read More