Content tagged Standards
Ordered by publication date from most to less recent.
(These results include any available translations of the original English documents.)
- IFLA Guidelines on Public Internet Access in Libraries
IFLA's Guidelines on Public Internet Access in Libraries offer both a firm reiteration of support for the value of such access, but also practical guidance in dealing with the issues that...
Publication - 25 August 2019
Tags: Access to information, Information society, Internet access, Public Libraries, Standards, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)
- Guidelines for Setting Up a Digital Unification Project
IFLA has released its guidelines for setting up a digital unification project. These provide a checklist, and recommendations, for libraries in the planning, delivery, and finalisation...
Publication - 22 August 2019
Tags: Cultural heritage, Digital libraries, Digital preservation, digital unification, Standards, National Libraries
- IFLA Guidelines for Library Services to Children aged 0-18 / revised version 2018
The IFLA Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section (C&YA Section) have undertaken this revision of the Guidelines for Children's Libraries Services, last published in 2003,...
Publication - 22 August 2018
Tags: Children, Guidelines, guidelines for childrens libraries, Management, Young adults, Guidelines, Standards, Libraries for Children and Young Adults
- IFLA Guidelines for Library Services to People Experiencing Homelessness
Introduction The IFLA Section for Library Services to People with Special Needs (LSN) focuses on those persons who, because of their living conditions and/or physical, mental, or cognitive...
Publication - 27 October 2017
Tags: Guidelines, Homelessness, IFLA standards, Libraries and homelessness, Social inclusion, Guidelines, Standards, Library Services to People with Special Needs
- IFLA Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development: Principles and Best Practices
The IFLA Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development: Principles and Best Practices have been prepared by the Section for Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning (CPDWL)...
Publication - 12 October 2017
Tags: Standards, Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning
- IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM)
The model IFLA LRM is a high-level conceptual reference model developed within an entity-relationship modelling framework. It is the consolidation of the separately developed IFLA...
Publication - 22 May 2017
Tags: FRBR LRM, Cataloguing, Standards
- Definition of PRESSoo: A conceptual model for Bibliographic Information Pertaining to Serials and Other Continuing Resources
PRESSoo PRESSOO is a formal ontology designed to represent the bibliographic information about continuing resources, and more specifically about serials (journals, newspapers,...
Publication - 22 May 2017
Tags: PRESSoo CIDOC CRM FRBR, Bibliographic Conceptual Models (BCM), Standards
- Definition of FRBRoo: A Conceptual Model for Bibliographic Information in Object-Oriented Formalism
FRBRoo FRBROO is an ontology or high-level conceptual model for bibliographic data. It is described in the document: Definition of FRBROO : a Conceptual Model...
Publication - 2 March 2017
Tags: CIDOC CRM, Conceptual models, FRAD; FRSAD, FRBRoo, Object-Oriented FRBR, Bibliographic Conceptual Models (BCM), Standards
- Guidelines for translations of the IFLA ISBD namespace in RDF (August 2017)
These guidelines are intended to encourage, support and give guidance to professionals on the process of translations of the ISBD namespace from the English language into multiple other...
Publication - 27 August 2016
Tags: ISBD, ISBD Review Group, RDF, Guidelines, Cataloguing, Standards
- IFLA Guidelines for Library Services to Persons with Dyslexia – Revised and extended
Introduction The IFLA Guidelines for Library Services to Persons with Dyslexia – revised and extended* aim to offer guidance to IFLA professional units and all its...
Publication - 12 March 2015
Tags: Dyslexia, Guidelines, Standards, Library Services to People with Special Needs
- Guidelines for Planning the Digitization of Rare Book and Manuscript Collections
Digitization guidelines have proliferated in many forms over the last fifteen years, and all of them reflect a set of best practices that continues to evolve. These guidelines attempt to...
Publication - 3 September 2014
Tags: Digital repositories, Digital resources, Digitisation, Guidelines, Standards, Rare Books and Special Collections
- International Standard Bibliographic Description (2011)
The consolidated edition of the International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD) was published by De Gruyter Saur in July 2011. The consolidated edition merges the texts of the...
Publication - 30 September 2013
Tags: Standards, ISBD (International Standard Bibliographic Description)
- Full ISBD Examples (2013)
Full ISBD Examples, a collection of full bibliographic descriptions demonstrating ISBD guidelines in a variety of languages, was published in a preliminary edition in October 2009. A revised...
Publication - 30 July 2013
Tags: Standards, ISBD (International Standard Bibliographic Description)
- UNIMARC Concise Authorities Format
The UNIMARC Authorities Format was designed to allow the creation of authority and reference records for the management of controlled access points in a bibliographic database. It was...
Publication - 23 June 2013
- UNIMARC Manual – Holdings Format
In late 1999, PUC appointed a working group to develop a UNIMARC specification for holdings information pertaining to a bibliographic item. The work was carried out during the period of 2000-2003...
Publication - 23 June 2013
- IFLA Principles for the Care and Handling of Library Material
An entirely new version of "IFLA Principles for the Preservation and Conservation of Library Materials" by J.-M. Dureau & D.W.G. Clements, 1986 (IFLA Professional Reports no. 8...
Publication - 23 June 2013
Tags: Preservation, Standards, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- ISBD Area 0: Content Form and Media Type Area (2009)
[Out of date publication. Revised version of Area 0 was issued in the ISBD consolidated edition, 2011. See Full ISBD Examples for use.] Area 0: Content Form and Media Type Area is an...
Publication - 3 June 2013
Tags: Standards, ISBD (International Standard Bibliographic Description)
- IFLA Disaster Preparedness and Planning: A Brief Manual
International Preservation Issues (IPI) 6 The IFLA Preservation and Conservation Core Activity (PAC) has one major goal: “to ensure that library and archive materials, published and...
Publication - 14 October 2012
Tags: Disaster management, Disaster planning, Standards, Preservation and Conservation
- Care, Handling and Storage of Photographs
International Preservation Issues (IPI) 5 Photographic materials have complex physical and chemical structures that present special preservation challenges to the librarian and archivist....
Publication - 14 October 2012
Tags: Photographic materials, Preservation, Standards, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)
- ISBD: International Standard Bibliographic Description Consolidated Edition
This is the new edition of the first consolidated ISBD that was published in 2007. The first years of usage have led to interesting and useful corrections and additions. Many cataloguers and...
Publication - 14 July 2011
Tags: Cataloguing, Standards
- Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD) - A Conceptual Model
The purpose of authority control is to ensure consistency in representing a value - a name of a person, a place name, or a term or code representing a subject - in the elements used as...
Publication - 30 May 2011
Tags: FRSAD, Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data, Standards, Subject Analysis and Access
- Multilingual Dictionary of Cataloguing Terms and Concepts (MulDiCat)
The Multilingual dictionary of cataloguing terms and concepts contains definitions for many terms and concepts used by the library cataloguing community. Terms and definitions are available in...
Publication - 24 August 2010
Tags: Cataloguing, Classification and indexing, Multilingualism, Guidelines, Standards
- UNIMARC Manual – Bibliographic Format, 3rd ed.
The third edition succeeds the fifth update of second edition. One of the main features has been the adoption of new and revised international standards, notably the International Standard...
Publication - 3 November 2009
- UNIMARC Manual – Authorities Format, 3rd ed.
The UNIMARC Authorities Format was designed in the early 1990s to allow the creation of authority and reference records for the management of controlled access points in a bibliographic...
Publication - 3 August 2009
- Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
The FRBR Final Report was first published in print in 1998 by K.G. Saur as volume 19 of UBCIM publications, new series, as well as PDF and HTML files on the IFLA Web site. Current text...
Publication - 14 April 2009
Tags: FRBR, Bibliographic Conceptual Models (BCM), Standards