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Standards activities The library and information community has adopted a range of standards that facilitate the interchange of library data, promote the inter-operability of library systems, and support the operation of national and international networks of libraries. Adherence to standards plays an important role in improving access by users to the information resources that are held in library collections, in collections of other cultural institutions, or that are accessible on the Internet.

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Policy aims 3. Definitions 4. Policy statement 5. Key roles and responsibilities 6. Review 7. References and related documents

Credit: © National Institute of Informatics National Institute of Informatics (NII; Director General: Dr. KITSUREGAWA Masaru, Tokyo, Japan) has begun reconstruction of NACSIS-CAT/ILL, a catalog information service used by more than 1,300 institutions, mainly university libraries. This project is based on "The Vision on Future Scholarly Information Systems (2019)", which was published by the Future Scholarly Information Systems Committee*1 under the Council for Promoting Collaboration between University Libraries and the National Institute of Informatics*2. The project will be implemented by...

National Library Standards Activities The library and information community has adopted a range of standards that facilitate the interchange of library data, promote the inter-operability of library systems, and support the operation of national and international networks of libraries. Adherence to standards plays an important role in improving access by users to the information resources that are held in library collections, in collections of other cultural institutions, or that are accessible on the Internet. The National Library maintains a watching brief over national and international st...

Processing and describing our collections Processing On acquisition, all items in the Library's collection are accessioned and recorded on the Library's Integrated Library Management System (ILMS). The Library currently uses the Voyager system. In addition, for manuscript and large picture archives, the collection management system Archive Space is used for the accessioning and detailed description of this material. All material is then catalogued according to the Library's Collection Description policy, with different levels of description employed for various categories of material. Descri...