Department of State Bibliography

Department of State Bibliography

The department was established in 1968. The main tasks of the department include the receipt of books, brochures, fine arts publications, maps, calendars, and albums published in Kazakhstan and received from the departments “Receipt and Control of Legal Deposit Copies” and “Book Market Statistics and Monitoring”; preparation of layouts; assignment of Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) and Library-Bibliographic Classification (LBC) indices; and compilation of bibliographic descriptions in accordance with current instructions.

The department ensures the publication of bibliographic indexes, including the “Chronicle of Print of the Republic of Kazakhstan,” which has been issued monthly since 1938. This chronicle includes: “Music Chronicle” (since 1955), “Chronicle of Visual Arts” (since 1961), and “Chronicle of Cartography” (since 2000). Since 1957, the department has also published the “Chronicle of Journal Articles,” “Chronicle of Newspaper Articles,” and “Chronicle of Reviews.”

The department receives republican, regional, city, sectoral, and public newspapers and journals; selects articles, prepares abstracts, compiles analytical descriptions, classifies materials by scientific fields in accordance with UDC, and prepares layouts.

In compiling and processing bibliographic and analytical descriptions of printed materials, the State Bibliography Department is guided by interstate standards of the System of Standards on Information, Librarianship and Publishing (SIBID), including:

• ST RK 2383–2013 “Publications. Output data. General requirements and rules for preparation”;
• GOST 7.34–81 “System of standards on information, librarianship and publishing. Bibliographic description of visual publications”;
• GOST 7.1–2003 “Bibliographic record. Bibliographic description. General requirements and rules”;
• GOST 7.12–93 “Bibliographic record. Abbreviation of words in the Russian language. General requirements and rules”;
• GOST 7.60–2003 “Publications. Basic types. Terms and definitions”;
• GOST 7.61–96 “Publications. National bibliographic indexes. General requirements and rules”;
• GOST 7.80–2000 “Bibliographic record. Heading. General requirements and rules.”

The department also uses instructions for the compilation of bibliographic records of books, newspapers, and journals developed on the basis of the above standards.

Titles of bibliographic indexes:

• “Book Chronicle” — monthly;
• “Chronicle of Journal Articles” — monthly;
• “Chronicle of Newspaper Articles” — monthly;
• “Visual Arts. Cartography. Musicography” — annually;
• “Chronicle of Reviews” — annually.