The Canadian National Bibliography: 50 years of continuity and change

It is a pleasure for me to be here today to share with you the celebration of the 50 th anniversary of Canadiana, Canada’s national bibliography. I speak on behalf of all of my colleagues at the National Library of Canada in saying we are proud of our bibliographic heritage and it is an honour for me to be the person having this opportunity to tell you about the creation and evolution of our national bibliography and some of our hopes for its future. The theme of our session today asks a question: Is bibliography indispensable or redundant? Certainly, in the early days of Canada’s history, there was no question as to the need for bibliographic services. Our first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, identified the need for a national library not long after the country was created in 1867. Throughout the decades of the first half of the 20 th century, librarians and researchers repeatedly lobbied the Government of Canada to provide two essential services: bibliographic control of Canadian publications and identification and location of these resources for loan. Given the other more pressing priorities in the years immediately following the second world war, it is a tribute to the government of the day that it approved the creation in 1950 of the Canadian Bibliographic Centre to compile and publish a national bibliography and to create and maintain a national union catalogue

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Conference August 16-25, 2001 The New Books Project: a prototype for re-inventing the Cataloguing-in-Publication program to meet the needs for publishers, libraries and readers in the 21st centur

Global publishing and national heritage: Selection of Internet resources for national bibliographies

The era of online publications at Die Deutsche Bibliothek was initiated on July 1, 1998 with the dissertation “Examination on the development of early acoustically evocated potentials with cats for utilisation in basic research and clinical applications ” (Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung der frühen akustisch evozierten Potentiale (FAEP) bei der Katze für den Einsatz in der Grundlagenforschung und zur klinischen Anwendung ” by Petra Keller. It is the legal mandate of Die Deutsche Bibliothek as central archival library and national bibliographic centre of the Federal Republic of Germany to collect, archive, index bibliographically all German and German-language publications and to provide public and unconfined access to it. Apart from print media, digital publications on physical data carriers have also been collected since some time and are covered by the “Law concerning Die Deutsche Bibliothek”. Online dissertations For the following reasons, Die Deutsche Bibliothek decided to start with online dissertations whose numbers were beginning to increase, especially in the exact sciences, as its first step towards development of a completely new procedure for collecting, archiving and indexing of online-publications: • Online dissertations are static online publications, meaning that they are self-contained and complete

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Conference August 16-25, 2001 Partnership with NGO’s as a great opportunity for librarians for promotions of women’s information needs in Croati