COBISS (short for ''Co-operative Online Bibliographic System and Services'') is an organizational model of joining libraries into a national library information system with shared cataloguing, the COBIB union bibliographic catalogue database and local bibliographic databases of participating libraries, the COLIB database on libraries, the CONOR authority database, and with a number of other functions.
History
In 1987, a shared cataloguing system was adopted by the then Association of the Yugoslav National Libraries as a common ground for the library information system and the system of scientific and technological information of Yugoslavia. In 1991, IZUM promoted the COBISS (Co-operative Online Bibliographic System and Services) as an upgrade of the shared cataloguing system. At that time, the same acronym started to be used also for the related software. Because of Yugoslavia's disintegration, the libraries outside Slovenia resigned from the membership in the shared cataloguing system, although almost all of them later on gradually renewed the collaboration wit
IZUM and are at present building their own autonomous information systems based on the COBISS platform with shared cataloguing in the COBISS.net network. The Agreement on the establishment of th
COBISS.netnetwork and the free exchange of bibliographic records, created in autonomous library information systems of
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Montenegro
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North Macedonia
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Slovenia
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and
Serbia
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was signed in 2003. In 2006, the aforementioned Agreement was also signed in the name of Bulgarian libraries by the
Bulgarian National Library.
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External links
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COBISS online search engine
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Libraries in Kosovo
Libraries in Albania
Libraries in Bulgaria
Libraries in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Libraries in Montenegro
Libraries in Serbia
Libraries in Slovenia
Libraries in North Macedonia
Library catalogues