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IFLA Webinar: From ISBD to ISBDM - a bibliographic standard in transformation– Save the date!

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
16 Nov 2022
New Standards, Guidelines and Drafts

The International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD) is intended to serve as a principal standard to promote universal bibliographic control, that is, to make universally and promptly available, in a form that is internationally acceptable, bibliographic data for all published and unpublished bibliographic resources in all countries.

 

Due to its importance to the global user community, a major revision of the ISBD was decided in 2018 by the IFLA Committee on Standards and the IFLA ISBD Review Group, aiming at aligning the ISBD to the overarching conceptual model provided by IFLA, the IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM). This alignment was sought in the double objective to keep up with the bibliographic and technological developments and to achieve complementarity between IFLA standards to the benefit of the users.

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