... scholarship and the value of collections. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Cataloguing Electronic data processing National bibliographies Libraries Books and other printed materials housed in the nation’s libraries represent the collective national memory essential to understanding our history...

...Mortaza Kokabi Among the problems associated with the requirements and the prospects for international standards for the exchange of bibliographic records in machine‐readable form are the various roles of national bibliographies and national libraries; a lack of international cataloguing standards...