New Zealand National Bibliography
Title |
Publications NZ |
Web site address | http://natlib.govt.nz/librarians/national-library-services/publications-new-zealand |
Start date | First print ed. published in 1968 |
Period covered | Approx. 1815 to date |
Current size | 4,780,000 records |
Media covered | Printed books & serials, maps, sound recordings, video recordings, music scores, CD-ROMs, remote e-resources (includes monographs, serials and websites) |
General selection criteria | Materials as above published in New Zealand plus items published outside New Zealand that have: at least 20% of content about NZ or a NZ setting (fiction & video), or a New Zealand author or editor. Also includes information on forthcoming titles that are part of the National Library of New Zealand’s Cataloguing-in-Publication service. |
Selection criteria for digital resources | As for General Selection Criteria. |
Exclusions policies applied | Unpublished material, individual book chapters, ephemeral material |
Primary organisation responsible for national bibliographic control | National Library of New Zealand |
Web site address of national bibliographic agency | http://www.natlib.govt.nz |
Co-operative structures or relationships supporting the production of the national bibliography | National Library of New Zealand is the ISBN/ISSN agency for New Zealand. The Library also operates a Cataloguing-in-Publication programme with participation by most of the country’s major publishers. |
Single integrated or multiple categorised bibliographies | Single integrated national bibliography |
Sources of bibliographic metadata used to produce national bibliography | Most data is created in-house (for New Zealand publications) , with some derived from other libraries (for some NZ publications and non-NZ publications that fall within the scope of the bibliography) |
Relationship to national legal deposit legislation or voluntary deposit arrangements | New Zealand publications included in the NZNB are received through legal deposit. Non-NZ publications are acquired by purchase. |
Relationship to national Cataloguing in Publication (CIP) programme | The New Zealand CiP service is provided by the National Library of New Zealand |
Media & format options |
Records are available: as part of Te Puna search on WorldCat, https://tepuna.on.worldcat.org/discovery as part of the National Library’s online catalogue, http://natlib-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=NLNZ free monthly files of new titles added to NZNB in PDF, MARC and Excel, http://natlib.govt.nz/librarians/national-library-services/publications-new-zealand |
Access options to national bibliographic metadata |
Entire dataset is freely available in MARC or MARCXML http://natlib.govt.nz/about-us/open-data/publications-nz-metadata Free monthly downloads of files of new records catalogued over the previous month, http://natlib.govt.nz/librarians/national-library-services/publications-new-zealand |
Metadata enhancements offered via online services | Book jackets |
Web 2.0 services offered | None |
Frequency of service updates | New titles files are updated monthly. |
Target audiences for services | New Zealand and overseas libraries, general public, publishers and booksellers |
Uses made of services offered | Notification of publications, acquisition/selection, source of catalogue records for current and retrospective cataloguing projects, |
Pricing policy for national bibliographic services | Free |
Availability of metadata for re-use | The bibliographic metadata is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence |
Metadata formats | MARC21 |
Cataloguing cod | RDA (Previously AACR2) |
Levels of description offered | Well above RDA Core |
Subject standards | DDC, LCSH, LCCSH, LCGFT, LCMPT, Ngā Upoko Tukutuku/Māori Subject Headings |
Name authority standards | NACO |
Is NBA affiliated to IFLA SC? | The National Library of New Zealand is registered in the Section on Bibliography. |