Co-operation + Web Access = Timeliness.

"The national bibliography should appear in a timely manner to meet the needs of the users." This is one of the recommendations from the International Conference on National Bibliographic Services in Copenhagen 1998 approved by the IFLA Professional Board in 1999. In our world of virtual reality the user expects to retrieve information quickly. To meet the challenge of a users need can be quite a task. It means that an efficient National Bibliographic Agency (NBA) is responsible for creating national bibliographic records according to agreed standards as fast as possible. This paper will describe the Swedish way when handling timeliness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]