An update on the ISBD(s) Working Group

Parent, Ingrid

IFLA Council and General Conference / .
(ReLIS:jul:juljin:6720)

Abstract:

The IFLA Section on Cataloguing has existed since 1935 and has produced several bibliographic standards and guidelines over the years which have greatly influenced the way libraries all over the world have catalogued their publications. I believe that the most important achievement of the Section on Cataloguing, through its Standing Committee, has been the development and the almost universal adoption of the various International Standard Bibliographic Descriptions or ISBDs. The impetus for the development of these descriptive standards came out of the International Meeting of Cataloguing Experts held in 1969 in Copenhagen Denmark. In addition to formulating the first concepts related to universal bibliographic control, this international meeting recommended a standard bibliographic description which determined the order of data elements in a bibliographic record and the punctuation to be used.

Creation: 1999
Keywords: ISBD ; Catalogación ; IFLA ; Asociaciones profesionales ; Normas

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