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Unit 5: Alerting and Bibliographic Services

Self Assessment Notes

Fill in the blanks:
10. .............................. bibliography is the application of analytical bibliography to the external
form of the book i.e. it concern itself with the materials forms of books and not with their
literary contexts.
11. .............................. is an application of analytical bibliography to the contexts of books.
12. .............................. bibliography has to content itself with the evolution of typefaces from
its very early manuscripts origin.
13. .............................. bibliography is concerned with the listing of only selected and the best
books.

5.4 Bibliographic Control

According to UNESCO/Library of Congress Survey, bibliographic control means “the mastery
over written and published records which is provided by and for the purpose of bibliography”.
Effective bibliographic control should be made at subject and national level.
(A) National Bibliographic Control: The national library ensures the bibliographic control of
all the books or book-like documents published in that particular country. It has the
provision of legal deposit by a host of different programs such as a cataloguing in
publication service or similar mandatory practices. By cataloguing in publication service,
the Library of Congress gives a complete catalogue entry of a book to any publisher who
sends a final draft or some form of galley proof of a book currently in production.
(B) International Bibliographic Control: One of the main goals of a national library is fulfilling
their nation’s part of the common international goal of universal bibliographic control.
The International bibliographic control is done by the exchanges and also by fostering the
creation of standard conceptual tools such as library classification systems and cataloguing
rules. The most commonly used of these tools is the International Standard Bibliographic
Description (ISBD). It applies to books and periodicals, but also has variants for other
book-like material such as the ISBD (ER) for Electronic Resources or digital documents or
the ISBD (A) for Antiquarian documents.
(C) Conclusion: New ideas are generated in each and every branch of human activity from
time to time. Apart from new ideas we give new interpretation to old ideas, at times we
also borrow ideas from other discipline and try to apply them in a new content. As a result
more and more information are produced in a variety of forms leading to information
explosion. There is a need to keep track of this information explosion by way of
bibliographic control.

5.5 Recording of Available Information – Bibliographic Control

On one hand, where we have galore of information being generated and added to the existing
pool of resources, the other hand, it becomes more and more difficult for the information seeker
to keep himself abreast of the core information exhaustively in his specific subject area. Therefore
bibliographical control of the generated knowledge is very essential rather an indispensable
tool. Not only are the tools important but control mechanisms are equally important to carry
out the tasks effectively. With the advent of information technology, things have become
comparatively simpler. The organization of primary knowledge and its subsequent recording
in secondary and tertiary sources have also become simpler, quicker and effective.

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