British National Bibliography
The British National Bibliography (BNB) is the national bibliography of the United Kingdom . It has been published since 1950.
It lists newly published books and journals published in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland that are deposited with the British Library . As part of the Legal Deposit Shared Cataloging programs also carry National Library of Ireland , the National Library of Scotland (Scottish National Library), the Bodleian Library , the Cambridge University Library (Cambridge University Library) and the library of Trinity College Dublin at the National Bibliography. Around 50,000 titles per year are recorded up to three months before they appear on the basis of announcements by the publishers; a total of over 125,000 titles are recorded per year. Electronic resources have also been included since 2003. Parliamentaria, official publications and ephemera are not included .
Weekly booklets are published in which the titles are sorted according to the Dewey Decimal Classification and additionally made accessible through a combined author and title index. The description of the titles is based on the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR2). A cumulative index of subject headings is published monthly, quarterly and annually using the Library of Congress Subject Headings .
The titles listed can now also be researched using the British Library's online catalog . The catalog data in MARC2 format is taken over by various library networks as external data.
literature
- Andy Stephens: The history of the British national bibliography 1950 - 1973 . British Library, Boston Spa 1994. ISBN 0-7123-1069-X