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BIC
Book Industry Communication, set up and sponsored by The Publishers Association, The Booksellers Association, The Library Association (now CILIP) and The British Library, develops and promotes standards for electronic commerce and communication in the book and serials industry.
BIC BSG
BIC Bibliographic Standards Technical Sub-group. The role of BIC BSG is to review current and proposed bibliographic standards, make recommendations to its parent body and discuss and report on any appropriate matter. The group considers proposals for changes to the MARC21 format and provides the official UK response to such proposals through MARBI.
BIC Subject Categories
BIC Subject Categories is a controlled vocabulary of subject categories developed for use in the UK book trade.
BNB
Books and new serials have been recorded since 1950 in the British
National Bibliography (BNB). The BNB is the single most comprehensive
listing of UK titles. UK and Irish publishers are obliged by law to send
a copy of all new publications, including serial titles, to the Legal
Deposit Office of the British Library. This material is catalogued by
experienced staff using the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2) and
subject indexed using Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) and
the Dewey Decimal Classification system (21st edition). This work is done
in partnership with the five other British and Irish libraries allowed
by law the privilege of legal deposit, under the Legal Deposit Libraries
Shared Cataloguing Programme (LDLSCP). BNB also contains details of forthcoming
books. Under the Cataloguing-in-Publication Programme (CIP) information
on new titles appears up to 16 weeks ahead of the announced publication
date. Advance information on well over 50,000 titles each year is provided
in this way. The coverage of BNB has always been selective (there is an
exclusions policy) with the emphasis being on mainstream monographs available
through normal book buying channels.
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