Introduction

National Bibliography Number Sources identifies the official national bibliography documentation (databases or print publications) that contain the numbers for national bibliography entries and assigns a code to each database or publication.  The purpose of these source codes is to enable the source documentation of a national bibliography number in a metadata record to be indicated by a code.  For code assignment, general structure, usage, and maintenance guidelines see Introduction.

Arrangement of the list

Entries in the list are arranged in alphabetical order by the code and consist of the source code followed by the bibliographic citation for the source documentation.  The citations are linked to the online source for some codes.

Code structure

Each code consists of a maximum of 12 lowercase alphabetic characters.  Possible additions to codes are described in Source Code Maintenance.

National Bibliography Number Source Codes

abc

Anuario bibliográfico colombiano (Calí: Biblioteca Jorge García B.)

abd

Anuario bibliográfico dominicana (Ciudad Trujillo: Biblioteca Nacional)

abe

Anuario bibliográfico ecuatoriano (Cuenca: Banco Central del Ecuador)

abp

Anuario bibliográfico peruano (Lima: Editorial Lumen)

abu

Anuario bibliográfico uruguayo (Montevideo: Biblioteca Nacional)

anb

Australian national bibliography (Canberra: National Library of Australia)

ba

Bibliografía d'Andorra (Andorra La Vella: Biblioteca Nacional)

bbe

Bibliographie de Belgique (Bruxelles: H. Manceaux)

bbo

Bibliografía boliviana (Cochabamba: Amigos del Libro)

bbr

Bibliografia brasileira (Rio de Janeiro: Biblioteca Nacional)

bc

Bibliografía cubana (Habana: Biblioteca Nacional José Martí)

bccb

Brinkman's cumulatieve catalogus van boeken (Leiden: Sijthoff)

bcl

Bibliografía chilena (Santiago: Biblioteca Nacional de Chile)

be

Bibliografía española (Madrid: Servicio Nacional de Información Bibliográfica)

bk

Bulgarski knigopis (Sofiíà: Narodna biblioteka Kiril i Metodii)

bkck

Bibliograficky katalog: Ceské knihy (Praha: Národní knihovna)

bksk

Bibliograficky katalog: Slovenské knihy (Brastislava: Národní knihovna)

bl

Bibliographie luxembourgeoise pour l'année (Luxembourg: Bibliothèque nationale)

bm

Bibliografía mexicana (Ciudad de México: Biblioteca Nacional)

bnb

British national bibliography (London: British Library, Bibliographic Services Division)

bnc

Bibliografia nacional de Catalunya (Barcelona: Departement de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya)

bne

Bibliografía nacional de España (Madrid: Biblioteca Nacional de España)

bnf

Bibliographie nationale française (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France)

bni

Bibliografia nazionale italiana (Roma: Istituto centrale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni)

bnm

Bibljografija nazzjonal ta' Malta = National bibliography of Malta (Valletta: National Library of Malta)

bnr

Bibliografia nationala româna (Bucuresti: Biblioteca Nationale a României)

bv

Bibliografía venezolana (Caracas: Instituto Autónomo Biblioteca Nacional y Servicios de Bibliotecas)

can

Canadiana (Ottawa: Library and Archives Canada)

cncr

Catálogo nacional de Costa Rica (San José: Biblioteca Nacional)

db

Deutsche Bibliographie (Frankfurt am Main: Die Deutsche Bibliothek)

dbf

Dansk bogfortegnelse (Ballerup: Dansk Bibliotekscenter)

dnb

Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

dnd

Danish National Bibliographic Number for Musical Recordings (Copenhagen: Royal Danish Library)

eev

Ellenikê ethnikê vivliografia (Athenai: Ethnikê Vivliothêkê tês Ellados)

gnb

Greek National Bibliography

hb

Hrvatska bibliografija (Zagreb: Nacionalna i sveucilisna biblioteka)

ib

Islensk bókaskrá (Reykjevík: Landbókasafn Islands - Háskólabókasafn)

ipr

Irish publishing record (Dublin: University College of Dublin)

jnb

Japanese National Bibliography (Tokyo: National Diet Library)

[replaced code kktzm in April 2011]

kktzm

Kokuritsu kokkai Toshokan zosho mokuroku (Tokyo: National Diet Library)

[replaced by code jnb in April 2011]

kl

Knizhnaíà letopis' (Moskva: Rossiiskaíà knizhnaíà palata)

la

Libros argentinos (Buenos Aires: Cámara Argentina del Libro)

lb

Liechtensteinische Bibliographie (Vaduz: Liechtensteinische Landesbibliothek)

ldb

Letapis Druku Belarusi = Chronicle of the Press Belarus (Minsk: Natsyianal'naia kniznaia palata Belarusi)

mnb

Magyar nemzeti bibliográfia (Budapest: Országos Széchényi Könyvtár)

nbf

Norsk bokfortegnelse (Oslo: Norske bokhandlerforening)

nznb

New Zealand national bibliography (Wellington: National Library of New Zealand)

oeb

Oesterreichische Bibliographie (Wien: Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek)

pb

Przewodnik bibliograficzny (Warszawa: Biblioteka Narodowa)

sanb

South African national bibliography (Pretoria: National Library of South Africa)

sbf

Svensk bokförteckning (Stockholm: Svenska bokhandlareforeningen)

skl

Suomen kirjallisuus (Helsinki: Helsingin Yliopiston Kirjasto)

slb

Slovenska bibliografija (Ljubljana: Narodna in univerzitetna knjiznica)

szb

Das Schweizer Buch : Schweizerische Nationalbibliographie (Zürich: Schweizerischer Buchhändler- und Verlegerverband)

tnb

Taiwan National Bibliography (Taipei: National Central Library)

ulk

Ukraïna: litopys knih (Kyïv: Knyzhkova palata Ukraïny)

znb

Zimbabwe national bibliography (Harare: National Archives)

Usage in MARC 21

 Bibliographic records

015 $2 (National Bibliography Number / Source of code)

See also:

Source Codes for Vocabularies, Rules, and Schemes:  Contents