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Unit 12: Bibliographical Sources

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Caution There is a need to keep track of this information explosion by way of bibliographic
control.

Self Assessment

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9. ................................. can be defined to mean the mastery over written or published records,
which is provided by and for the purpose of bibliography.

10. The ................................. ensures the bibliographic control of all the books or book-like
documents published in that particular country.

12.6 Comparative Study of INB and BNB

In this section, only two National Bibliographies which are most important shall be discussed in
detail.

12.6.1 Indian National Bibliography (INB)

The Indian National Bibliography has been conceived as an authoritative bibliographical record
of current Indian publications in Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada,
Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu languages, received in
the National Library, Kolkata under the Delivery of Books and Newspapers, (Public Libraries)
Act, 1954 (Act No. 27 of 1954 as amended by Act No. 99 of 1956). Indian National Bibliography
(INB) reflects the cultural heritage of our country. In this knowledge based society, INB has a
major role to play. The types of publications, publishing process in general, the format of
national bibliographies from the printed version to CD-ROM and online versions etc. has much
changed the scope of the national bibliography.

Notes The following types of publications are excluded:
(a) Maps
(b) Musical scores

(c) Periodicals and Newspapers (except the first issue of a new periodical and the first
issue of a periodical under a new title)
(d) Keys and Guides to Textbooks

(e) Ephemeral and other such materials.

The main entries are in Roman Script and the collations and annotations, if any, are in English.
The classified portion follows the Dewey Decimal Scheme of Classification but the numbers
from the Colon Classification scheme are assigned to each entry at the bottom right hand to
facilitate the use of the Bibliography and libraries, arranged according to the Colon Schemes of
classification.
At the beginning of its compilation, the problem of multilingual characteristics of the nation
was overcome with the scholarly opinion of Dr. Suniti Kumar Chatterji by adopting Roman

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