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The article presents a Working Group appointed by the Standing Committee on Bibliography consisting librarians Barbara L. Bell and Anne M.H. Langballe. They were tasked to identify national bibliographic services which provide the features identified in International Conference on National Bibliographic Services Recommendations. Both librarians communicated through electronic mail and fax to maintain access of information with regards to the project.

The article presents the core activities made by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) for Universal Bibliographic Control and International MARC (UBCIM). It indicates that the IFLA aims to maintain a close cooperation with the Division of Bibliographic Control. Moreover, it also indicates that the UBCIM promotes and develops authority control at the international level.

Information about the presentation by librarian Mirna Willer during the 67th IFLA Council and General Conference on August 16-25, 2001 held in Boston, Massachusetts is presented. The discussion focuses on the bibliographic format of the updated edition of the UNIMARC Manual. It also offers the future developments of the UNIMARC Manual such the promotion of ISO 23950 and Bath Profile standards and the follow up developments of IFLA standards.

This paper considers whether in order to achieve a "bibliographic continuum" the book trade and the library community can benefit from exchange of product metadata. It considers the potential of the ONIX metadata set for libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper will provide an overview of UNIMARC Guideline no. 6: Electronic Resources. The Guideline shows how the UNIMARC format is to be used when creating bibliographic records for electronic resources. Several aspects of describing electronic resources using UNIMARC format will be discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In March 2001, the UNIMARC Manual - Authorities Format, 2nd Edition was published by K.G. Saur on behalf of the IFLA UBCIM Programme. This edition replaced UNIMARC/Authorities: Universal Format for Authorities, published in 1991. The Permanent UNIMARC Committee initiated the production of a new edition to align UNIMARC with the recommendations of the IFLA Report, Mandatory Data Elements of Internationally Shared Resource Authority Records; in addition, it was recognised that after 10 years of practical use there were many other useful enhancements. This paper will describe these changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The experience of the Research Libraries Group, Inc. (RLG) and Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) with round trip conversion of UNIMARC data to a MARC 21-based format shows that there are considerable difficulties in such a conversion. However, various techniques can be used to deal quite successfully with the incompatibilities of those two formats. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about the presentation by librarian Rosa Maria Galvão during the 67th IFLA Council and General Conference held on August 16-25, 2001 in Boston, Massachusetts is presented. It focuses on the UNIMARC Holdings Format also known as the bibliographic or Authority format. The format composes the general philosophy of UNIMARC, provides effective means for the exchange of the records at the local and international levels.

OCLC's involvement with UNIMARC/Bibliographic is outlined briefly, beginning with the February 1995 decision to pursue international growth, through the development of UNIMARC and MARC 21 conversion utilities during 1995 and 1996, and implementation in various phases between March 1997 and early 1998. Some major conceptual and practical differences between UNIMARC and MARC 21 are also mentioned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]