A national bibliography is a systematic
bibliography
Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes ''bibliography ...
of acquisitions of a
national library
A national library is a library established by a government as a country's preeminent repository of information. Unlike public libraries, these rarely allow citizens to borrow books. Often, they include numerous rare, valuable, or significant wo ...
. Most countries either have a national bibliography or are in the process of compiling one. Some countries that do not have a national bibliography of their own participate in larger, , such as the
Arab Bulletin of Publications, the
CARICOM Bibliography,
Bibliografía Actual del Caribe,
Boletin Bibliografico, or the
South Pacific Bibliography.
Current national bibliographies
Notes
See also
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National Bibliography Number
National Bibliography Number (NBN) is a group of publication identifier systems used by national libraries in countries such as Germany, Italy, Finland, Norway, The Netherlands and Sweden. There is no global standard for the contents of NBNs; inst ...
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Universal Short Title Catalogue
The Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) brings together information on all books published in Europe between the invention of printing and the end of the sixteenth century, creating a powerful resource for the study of the book and print cultur ...
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Further reading
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External links
National Bibliographic Registerat
(IFLA)
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Bibliography
National libraries