NLIS NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Web site address
- www.nlis.bs
- Start date
- Began 2005
- Period covered
- 1847-2019
- Current size
- Approximately 600 records
- Media covered
- Printed books or serials and booklets CDs/DVDs
- General selection criteria
- Materials printed in Bahamas and outside The Bahamas, regardless of nationality of author.
- Selection criteria for digital resources
- N/A
- Exclusions policies applied
- Printed books or serials and booklets only
- Primary organisation responsible for national bibliographic control
- Single national library
- Web site address of national bibliographic agency
- www.nlis.bs
- Co-operative structures or relationships supporting the production of the national bibliography
- Cooperation with local printers, writers, publishers and abroad
- Single integrated or multiple categorised bibliographies
- Only one National Bibliography exists, which is limited to published books and booklets
- Sources of bibliographic metadata used to produce national bibliography
- The data is created in-house.
- Relationship to national legal deposit legislation or voluntary deposit arrangements
- The legal deposit reference in NLIS Authority Act 2009 is the primary source of collected national materials.
- Relationship to national Cataloguing in Publication (CIP) programme
- There is no CIP programme at NLIS Bahamas
- Media & format options
- The national bibliography is currently available only as an Excel document.
- Access options to national bibliographic metadata
- N/A
- Metadata enhancements offered via online services
- N/A
- Web 2.0 services offered
- N/A
- Frequency of service updates
- N/A
- Target audiences for services
- Members of the public.
- Uses made of services offered
- Announcements of pending publications
- Pricing policy for national bibliographic services
- Free
- Availability of metadata for re-use
- Not released into the public domain, other than as a list.
- Metadata formats
- N/A
- Cataloguing code
- N/A
- Levels of description offered
- AACR Level 1
- Subject standards
- LCSH
- Name authority standards
- Local guide
- Is NBA affiliated to IFLA SC?
- No
- Date information compiled
- 5/1/19
- Information supplied by
- Dorcas Bowler