The Society of Librarians of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina fully supports the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina (NUB BiH). This library is crucial for preserving and archiving the country’s cultural and scientific heritage. It also produces the national bibliography and manages national agencies for ISSN, ISBN (International Standard Book Number), ISMN (International Standard Music Number).

Closing the National Library would disrupt publishing and academic progress, and hamper library cataloging. The Society urges leaders to prevent the library’s demise, which would fulfill the destructive goals of the 1992 war and devastate the nation’s cultural foundation.

La Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia está organizando una serie de eventos profesionales para los editores colombianos, que incluyen presentaciones sobre el ISSN, el ISBN, las mejores prácticas en bibliometría y la producción de metadatos de calidad. El vídeo de la conferencia (en español) está disponible aquí.

Gaëlle Béquet, Directora del Centro Internacional del ISSN, ha sido invitada a presentar las actividades del Centro y de la red ISSN en el evento organizado por la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia para los editores colombianos. El programa del taller incluye también una presentación del identificador ISBN, buenas prácticas en bibliometría y producción de metadatos de calidad. Más información está disponible aquí.

The ISSN IC will exhibit at LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries) annual conference.

Join us on our booth for a presentation of our services.

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Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, and Carlos Authier, Director of ISSN Argentina, gave a joint presentation at the PIDFest conference organized in Prague by the National Library of Technology, which hosts ISSN Czech Republic. Their presentation was about the interoperability of ARK, ISNI, ISSN and URN identifiers. 

The ISSN International Centre and the National Library and Archives of Abu Dhabi, UAE, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on May 29, 2024. This agreement is a prelude to the opening of the 94th ISSN National Center, which should take place shortly.

The French Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education (ABES) will celebrate its 30th anniversary. The agency organises every year the SUDOC PS Network Meeting with university librarians specialized in serial identification and cataloguing. Nathalie Cornic, Head of the Metadata and Technical Coordination of the ISSN Network, will participate in SUDOC PS Network Meeting to be held online on 30 May 2024. She will provide an update about the participation of the ISSN Network in CIDEMIS, the Dematerialized CIrcuit of ISSN Requests, designed to manage ISSN assignment and modification requests for continuous resources reported in the Sudoc. A presentation of the latest projects run by ISSN International Centre is also on the agenda.

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Gaëlle Béquet, Director of ISSN International Centre, is invited to participate in a panel discussion together with Ana Maria Cetto, Universidad Autónoma de México, Chair of the UNESCO Open Science Commission, and Sibylle Hermann, Information and Communication Centre of the University of Stuttgart. This session International perspectives on openness in science and information infrastructures will be held during the BiblioCon 2024 Conference that will take place from 4 to 7 June 2024 in Hamburg, Germany.
Based on the position paper Openness in Libraries, this roundtable will discuss experiences and developments from other regions of the world.

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Gaëlle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, and Carlos Authier, Director of ISSN Argentina, will be speaking at the PIDFest conference organised in Prague by the National Library of Technology, which hosts ISSN Czech Republic. Gaëlle and Carlos will give a joint presentation on the interoperability of ARK, ISNI, ISSN and URN identifiers. The full conference programme is available.

In the latest Scholarly Kitchen interview focused on research infrastructures, Gaelle Béquet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, talks about her career, the ISSN IC and its network, their projects and the impact of artificial intelligence.