Bibliographic control
“The term bibliographic control refers to the operations by which recorded information is organized or arranged according to established standards and thereby made readily retrievable.” (Chan, 1994, p. 3).

Bibliographic control have been defined as “power over writings”. Patrick Wilson (1968) expresses it this way: “There seem to me to be two quite distinct sorts of things that deserve to be called exercises of bibliographical control”. He terms the two forms “exploitative control” and “descriptive control”. The first is about the conditions for the best possible utilization of the documents (to identify the best text to a given purpose), the other is about the pure descriptive recording of the documents.
 

Literature:

Anderson, D. (1974). Universal Bibliographic Control, a long-term policy, a plan for action. Pullach, München: Saur.
 

Anderson, D. (1982). UBC. A survey of Universal Bibliographic Control. London: IFLA International Office for UBC. (Occasional Papers; 10).

Chan, L. M. (1994). Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction. (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
 

Davinson, D. (1981). Bibliographic control. 2nd ed. London: Clive Bingley.

International Congress on Universal Availability of Publications, 3-7 May 1982. Main working document including annotated programme and summary. Paris: Unesco, 1982 (PGI-82/UAP/2).
 

Manual on bibliographic control. Compiled by the IFLA International Office for UBC. General Information Programme. Paris: Unesco, 1983. (PGI-83/WS/8).
 

Plassard, M.-F. (1994). The IFLA Core Programme for Universal Bibliographic Control and International MARC (UBCIM). Recent developments and current state. IN: Alexandria, 6(2), 145-153.
 

Shera, J. H. & Egan, M. E. (1951). Bibliographic organization. Papers presented before the Fifteenth Conference ... July 24-29, 1950. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
 

Wilson, P. (1968). Two kinds of power. An essay on bibliographical control. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Birger Hjørland

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Bibliografisk kontrol betegner udvikling og vedligeholdelse af et system af bibliografiske registreringer af dokumenter i trykte eller elektroniske bibliografier. Formålet med bibliografisk kontrol er at sikre, at dokumenterne - og dermed den viden/information disse rummer - kan genfindes.

Universal Bibliographic Control (UBC) blev i 1970erne formuleret som et program under IFLA, International Federation of Library Associations & Institutions, med det mål at styrke udviklingen af et verdensomspændende system for kontrol med og udveksling af bibliografisk information. Formålet hermed var at gøre bibliografisk information universelt tilgængelig, og styrke mulighederne for udveksling og genbrug af bibliografiske data. Midlerne hertil var bl.a. udviklingen af fælles retningslinier for description og klassifikation og kompatibilitet mellem de formater, der anvendes. UBC er baseret på nationale tiltag, specielt i form af nationalbibliografier, hvor de enkelte lande påtager sig ansvaret for bibliografisk kontrol med de dokumenter, der publiceres i landet.

UBC-programmet koordineres fra IFLA’ kontor for UBCIM Programme (Universal Bibliographic Control and International MARC Programme). UBC-programmet hænger nøje sammen med et andet af IFLA’s store “core programmes”: Universal Avalability of Publications (UAP), hvis formål det er at sikre alle brugere den videst mulige adgang til selve dokumenterne, d.v.s fremme deres tilgængelighed ved lån eller på anden vis, nationalt såvel som internationalt.