Imd124 Chapter 2:Bibliographic Control

Coverage of CIP are among reference book, children’s book published by federal or state or commercial publisher.

There are 13 digits which is preceded by the letters ISBN printed in bold.

There are only 2 services offered by NBC to publishers namely ISBN and ISSN

Deposit of Library Material Act 1986 (Akta 331) is an act that compulsory for all local publishers in Malaysia to deposit 5 copies of any printed materials and 2 copies of non-printed materials for National Library of Malaysia

One of the activities of Persatuan Pustakawan Malaysia (PPM) is as co-organizer of every 2 years activities. 

There are three index publication namely - Malaysian Periodicals Index, Index to Malaysian Conference papers and Malaysian Newspaper Index.

International Serial Data System(ISDS) is a center under NLM with responsibility of issuing ISSN for serial publications in Malaysia

An assigned ISBN once allocated will not be re-used

One of the benefits of ISSN is to promote sales of Malaysian serials.

CIP (Cataloguing in Publication) is a service provided by National Library of Malaysia to publishers, which enable new Malaysian books to receive cataloguing data before they are published.

How CIP works? 1. Author/Publisher send info to PNM 2.PNM do the cataloging and 3. Send CIP data to publisher 3. Publisher print CIP data

NBC also produced special bibliographies - a book that listed on prime ministers both n printed and online.

One of the scope of ISBN is e-book.

One of the scope in ISBN is loose-leaf publications

ISBN is a unique number that is assigned to books only and it exclude cassettes, newsletter, pamphlet.

ISBN is divided into five parts of variable length, each part being separated by a hyphen or space.

There are five parts of ISBN namely - Code for Book Industry, Group Identifier, Publisher Identifier, Title Identifier and Check Digit

Publisher who wants to get ISBN for their publication need  to pay certain charges from the National ISBN Center.

One of the benefits of ISBN is to strengthen the ownership of the books by publishers.

Based on the theory, for a print publication, the ISSN should be shown: preferably, in the upper right corner of the cover