The National Bibliographic Office (NBO) was set up in September 2015 as a Directorate within Malta Libraries.
The aim of the NBO is to ensure the application of standards in cataloguing work leading to an establishment of a local authoritative source. To this end, the NBO creates bibliographic records of all the publications submitted under legal deposit at the National Library of Malta. These records are then published annually as the Malta’s National Bibliography. The National Library of Malta has a dig
22/12/2023
🎄 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2023 - 2024 from all of us at Malta Libraries🎄
A big thank you goes to our staff across our network of national and public libraries for their hard work and dedication; as well as to our patrons who help us keep libraries alive. We look forward to making 2024 an even better year for across Malta and Gozo!
31/07/2023
Ġieli smajtu bil- ? 🤔📜🇲🇹 Dari kienet xena komuni ħafna fl-iljieli sajfin li tara ċorom ta’ nies miġburin fuq l-għetiebi, fil-maġġor parti nies illitterati, madwar xi ġar li kien jaf jaqra u li ta’ kull ġimgħa kien jaġġornahom bl-aħħar parti tar-rakkont.
Bħalissa l-Uffiċċju Nazzjonali tal-Bibljografija għaddej b’eżerċizzju ta’ rkupru ta’ dawn il-faxxikli mill-passat biex jiġu miżjudin mal-kollezzjoni nazzjonali ġewwa l-Bibljoteka.
Ta’ min isemmi li r-rumanzi tal-faxxikli ma kinux joħorġu f’format ta’ ktieb komplut kif imdorrijin bih u kif qed jerġgħu jiġu stampati listess rakkonti fis-suq illum – iżda kienu joħorġu f’kapitli sfużi ta’ kull ġimgħa. Filfatt, biex tiġi rispettata n-natura tagħhom, il-faxxikli miġburin qed jiġu konservati b’mod sfuż ukoll.
Minn hawnhekk l-Uffiċċju Nazzjonali tal-Bibljografija qed jagħmel sejħa lill-pubbliku biex min għandu xi faxxikli li jixtieq jagħti bħala donazzjoni biex jiżdiedu mal-kollezzjoni nazzjonali jibgħat fuq: [email protected]
26/05/2022
The different formats recovered by the National Bibliographic Office - Malta throughout 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣1️⃣ were 📚 (including monographs of more than eight pages), 📕, 📀, digital video discs, 📼 and ephemera, which includes 🗓, and . The majority of the 427 books recovered were in the , followed by those in English. Moreover, an impressive 6,659 e-documents were harvested, file-named and uploaded during 2021, the highest amount since the NBO’s inception 📊. The comprehensive mapping of governmental content creators continued, and from this global amount 6,006 were government records! 📋
Read all about Malta Libraries’ 2021 achievements here: https://maltalibraries.gov.mt/iguana/uploads/file/ML%20AR21%20Final%20-%20Online-compressed.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1VoTpoCVUWvy1p1QBKGBXVwsZtDL_k1c9mNY4DBRD_XfH_E_MSInZjfqc
14/05/2020
Following the creation of client information accounts (CIA) for Malta, a second phase was implemented by the National Bibliographic Office - Malta in 2019 with the digital harvesting of government documents that are available online. This reaped an impressive 4,441 documents in digital format, mostly born-digital and a few copies of scanned documents that had been previously published in print format. The content ranged from targeted annual reports, audits or national strategy plans and case notes to promotional literature.
Follow the NBO's page for updates and read more about the office's remit and work throughout 2019: https://maltalibraries.gov.mt/iguana/uploads/file/ML%20AR19%20E-version%20COMPRESSED.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2bSKdppLjFdpbV_8vSR_KlYnzvr1qlS5UcobcyknZdvgtKfhcKWrpI6b0
28/04/2020
In 2019, National Bibliographic Office - Malta has acquired a considerably high amount of mint publications – registering a total of 559 (55.3%), up from 395 (32.7%) in 2018. These had either been purchased by their owner or received as a gift and remained unread. Several of these had autographs or dedications. The predominant genre of mint publications was, as in 2017 and 2018, of a devotional nature or else Maltese poetry books. 📚⬆️
Follow the NBO's page for updates and read more about the office's remit and work throughout 2019:https://maltalibraries.gov.mt/iguana/uploads/file/ML%20AR19%20E-version%20COMPRESSED.pdf
The National Bibliographic Office (NBO) was set up in September 2015 as a Directorate within Malta Libraries. The aim of the NBO is to ensure the application of standards in cataloguing work leading to an establishment of a local authoritative source. To this end, the NBO creates bibliographic records of all the publications submitted under legal deposit at the National Library of Malta. These records are then published annually as the Malta’s National Bibliography.
The National Library of Malta has a digitisation programme intended to preserve material in its holdings which is too fragile or valuable to be handed out to the public. Additionally, through its daily operations, the library collects and collates curatorial data on its holdings. The NBO makes such work accessible to the public by creating records attached to the digital images of files on Malta Libraries’ portal. The service is called DigiVault and is accessible via www.digivault.maltalibraries.gov.mt. The metadata contained within this portal is re-used by the NBO in collaborative projects beyond the entity, such as Europeana.
The NBO has been entrusted with the management of the off-site storage repositories of the National Library. This reflects one of the greatest challenges that the NBO faces, namely the retrospective cataloguing of all the National Library’s collections.
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