A survey on national bibliographies was carried out among member countries of the Conference of Directors of National Libraries in 2001, as a follow up to Holley's 1996 survey. All parts of the world are represented among the 52 responses. The main findings are that legal deposit legislation still emphasizes textual material. Many agencies are currently revising their legislation to include more types of material, in particular electronic documents. Print remains the preferred format for national bibliographies but more and more agencies are offering Internet access. More than half of the agencies are currently undertaking or planning retrospective conversion programmes.
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