Biblioteksentralen AL is a library center for

public libraries A public library is a library that is accessible by the general public and is usually funded from public sources, such as taxes. It is operated by librarians and library paraprofessionals, who are also civil servants. There are five fundamenta ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

, with offices in

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...

. It is the primary supplier of books, equipment and services to these libraries. Libraries make use of Biblioteksentralen's centralized

library catalog A library catalog (or library catalogue in British English) is a register of all bibliographic items found in a library or group of libraries, such as a network of libraries at several locations. A catalog for a group of libraries is also c ...

system, BIBBI. It contains 170,000 bibliographic records, with 11,000 records added each year. A simplified version of the

MARC Marc or MARC may refer to: People * Marc (given name), people with the first name * Marc (surname), people with the family name Acronyms * MARC standards, a data format used for library cataloging, * MARC Train, a regional commuter rail system of ...

21/NORMARC format is used, called BSMARC. Biblioteksentralen is

cooperative A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-control ...

ly owned (the "AL" suffix to the name means "andelslag" or cooperatively held corporation) by 425 municipalities, 14 counties, the

Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities ( no, KS) is an employers' organisation in Norway. It was founded in 1972 as a merger between the Union of Norwegian Cities (''Norges Byforbund'', founded in 1903) and the Norwegian Asso ...

, and the Norwegian Library Association. It was established in this form in February 1952 after a government resolution in the previous year, but its predecessor ''Folkeboksamlingenes Ekspedisjon'' had been around since 1902.Om BS
The corporation has 56 employees and a turnover of (2006) with a profit from operations of 2 million.

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BIBBI
Cooperatives in Norway Business services companies of Norway Library centers Companies based in Oslo Business services companies established in 1952 Bibliographic database providers Bibliographic databases and indexes 1952 establishments in Norway Government-owned companies of Norway {{Library-org-stub

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