NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC METADATA IN THE AGE OF MASS INFORMATION [ARTICLE]

Abstract

This is a report on the Bibliography Section of IFLA: its scope, activities, and role in promoting national bibliographies and national bibliographic metadata in this era of mass online information. National bibliographies, as comprehensive, standardized, and authoritative sources of information about the intellectual and cultural output of a country, have an important role to play today. This paper outlines the tools that the Bibliography Section of IFLA makes available to agencies that wish to build or maintain strong national bibliographies that can contribute to access, selection, and assessment of information