Facilitating access to documents or materials Guidance in searching information Vital element for effective reference & information services

Recording and expanding knowledge Stimulating R & D Avoiding duplication in R & D Encouraging cooperation, exchange and sharing of information between institutions and nations

Increasing of information Variation of information Information as an entity that can be created, processed and disseminated Passive information has become an active information The use of computerized technology in information processing

Universal International National Organizational Individual

Promoted by IFLA in early 1970s Concepts Creation of a network made up of component national parts, each of which covers a wide range of publishing and library activities, all integrated at the international levels to form the total system

Aims promotion of the world-wide system for the control and exchange of bibliographic information. The purpose of the system is to make universally and promptly available, in a form which is internationally acceptable, basic bibliographic data on all publications issued in all countries

International Conference on Cataloguing Principles (Paris, 1961) rationalization of the cataloguing standard (standardization of the choice and form of heading, concept of main entry, choice of personal or corporate headings for entries and the use of uniform headings for consistency)

International Meeting of Cataloguing Experts (Copenhagen, 1969) efforts should be directed towards creating system for the international exchange of information by which the standard bibliographic description of each publication would be established and distributed (through the medium of cards and machine readable records) by national agency in the country of origin of the publication

Early 1970s, IFLA Committee on Cataloguing established International Office for UBC at The British Library Reference Division in London

The means of ensuring that it is possible to make the bibliographic record of each new publication as it is issued (legal deposit/similar governmental regulation, etc.)

Each national bibliographic agency should:

1. Establish the authoritative bibliographic record for each new publication issued in the country 2. Publish those records as soon as possible 3.Produce and distribute the records in a standard physical forms (cards machine readable tape, etc.) 4. Receive, distribute and exchange those records with other country 5. Create a retrospective national bibliography

The development of the International Standard Bibliographic Description as an instrument for international communication of bibliographical information The improvement of national bibliographies Guidelines for the National Bibliographic Agency and the National Bibliography (International Congress on National Bibliographies; Paris 1977)

The development of international standards for the exchange of bibliographic records in machine readable form established UNIMARC the international descriptive format designed to facilitate the exchange of machine-readable records The standardization of forms of headings for the bibliographic records published list for uniform headings

Leading international body representing interests of library and information services and their users
Global voice of the library & information profession Founded in Edinburgh in 1927 at International Conference IFLA was registered in the Netherlands in 1971, in the Hague headquarters

It is an independent, international, nongovernmental, not for profit organization. Aims are:

Promote high standards of provision and delivery of library and information services Encourage understanding of the value of good library & information services Represent interest of members throughout the world

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IFLA embraces the following core values: - Believe that people, communities & organization has the rights to free access of information, ideas and work of imagination - Believe that the provision & delivery of high quality & information services help guarantee that access

Committed to enabling library associations & institutions and their staff to participate in the work of the federation - Promote the principles of freedom of access to information, ideas and works of imagination
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Financial grants from UNESCO, Institutional, National Libraries and members fees