Establishing the need for a national bibliography Contents Purpose and value Definitions Integration into a portfolio International recommendations Use cases Users and stakeholders Organisation Scoping and selection Resource, description and standards Service delivery Glossary/Useful links Bibliography Home… Read More
Common Practices for National Bibliographies in the Digital Age is fully revised and released under a new title in 2022. Pre-publication 2021 draft [Common_Practices_for_national_bibliographies_2021-01: PDF – English]. The 2022 edition builds on the web publication Best Practice for National Bibliographic Agencies in a Digital Age (2014-2017). The web resource… Read More
Newspaper digitisation projects worldwide ICON survey on newspaper digitisation projects Wikipedia:List of online newspaper archives United States – National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) www.loc.gov/ndnp www.loc.gov/ndnp/guidelines www.loc.gov/standards Utah Digital Newspapers Program http://digitalnewspapers.org/about Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program… Read More
At its meeting of 19th August 2011, the IFLA Governing Board set up an Advisory Group to draft Principles of Engagement to be used by IFLA and its members in library-related activities of disaster risk reduction and in times of conflict, crisis or natural disaster; with reference to IFLA’s engagement… Read More
third issue has just been released... Read More
This one-day conference—aimed at library and information professionals in all sectors and at all levels—focuses on providing tools and sharing expertise for library advocacy in the current financial climate, while providing excellent peer networking opportunities. The programme looks at the benefits of advocating for the value of libraries… Read More
An English language summary of the 2009 publication National Bibliographies in the Digital Age: Guidance and New Directions is available from this page: Contents Introduction Members of the Working Group National Bibliography Numbers as Uniform Resource Names Glossary of terms & abbreviations… Read More
Anders Cato National Library of Sweden, 2007-2009 Genevieve Clavel-Merrin Swiss National Library, 2007-2009 Whitney Coe Princeton University Library (retired), USA Alan Danskin British Library Tuula Haapamäki National Library of Finland Randi Diget Hansen Danish Bibliographic Centre Agneta Holmenmark National Library of Sweden, 2004- 2006 Unni Knutsen Oslo University… Read More
Mid-Term Conference Case Studies in Government Libraries Museu d’Història de Catalunya 3 Plaça Pau Vila (Palau de Mar building) Auditorium (4th floor) 08003 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain April 22-23, 2010 Subway stations: Barceloneta (L4) Google Map… Read More
Just off the press as Nr 39 in the IFLA Series on Bibliographic Control... Read More