Abstract
The outcome of the International Conference on National Bibliographic Services held in November 1998 was a set of revised recommendations for the national bibliography, its basis, scope and production. The recognition of the national bibliography as a bibliographic system or as a national bibliographic service (NBS) listing all the different types of document published in a country is fairly recent, being based primarily on the recommendations from two conferences on bibliographic services in 1950 and in 1977, which have had a strong influence on the development of NBSs around the world. Major changes were introduced by the new recommendations, which emphasize the importance of legal deposit regulations as the basis for NBSs, and take into account today's new technologies and media with respect to coverage as well as to production and publication of the national bibliography.
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