The Icelandic National Bibliography

About the Bibliography

The Icelandic National Bibliography is published by the National and University Library of Iceland. Bibliographic data are extracted from Gegnir, the Union Catalogue of Icelandic Libraries, by the Icelandic Library Consortium. Bibliographic records in Gegnir are created by the participating libraries, and all records to be included in the Icelandic National Bibliography are verified by staff of the Section of Cataloguing and Processing of Icelandic Material in the National Department of the National and University Library. The Information Technology Section in the National and University Library was responsible for processing and presenting the data, and the illustration is by the Library's photographer.

Entries

Entries contain the following fields:

• Title
• Author
• Publication year
• Dewey number
• Publisher
• Link to a bibliographic record in Gegnir

Example:

Valborg Sigurðardóttir 1922 Íslenska menntakonan verður til / Valborg Sigurðardóttir. 2005 | 305.4209491 | Bókafélagið | Gegnir

Lists

In the lists the entries are arranged alphabetically by heading. Selection of heading is in accordance with established standards. Heading may be a personal or corporate name or the title of a work.

Examples taken from a list of books published in 2005 in the field of sociology and social welfare:

Valborg Sigurðardóttir 1922 Íslenska menntakonan verður til / Valborg Sigurðardóttir. 2005 | 305.4209491 | Bókafélagið | Gegnir Vaxtarsamningur Vestfjarða til aukinnar samkeppnishæfni og sóknar : tillögur Verkefnisstjórnar um byggðaáætlun fyrir Vestfirði. 2005 | 307.09491 | Iðnaðar- og viðskiptaráðuneytið | Gegnir Vöktunarmælingar Geislavarna ríkisins 2004 = Radioactivity in the environment and food in Iceland 2004 / Magnús Á. Sigurgeirsson ... [et al.]. 2005 | 363.1799 | Geislavarnir ríkisins | Gegnir

For the time being, material of the following classes published on paper is not included in the Bibliography:

• Annual reports and financial statements of companies and institutions.
• Material intended for limited distribution (within a company or an institution).
• Ephemeral material of different kinds, e.g. off-prints, publicity material, timetables, advertisements, catalogues, diaries, etc.
• Parts of a larger work (e.g. articles in journals, chapters in books) are not included in the Bibliography although they are found in Gegnir.

For an overview of the Dewey Decimal Classification, see http://www.oclc.org/dewey/versions/ddc22print/intro.pdf.

A few exceptions to normal Dewey classification rules are observed by Icelandic libraries. The exceptions apply to the classification of material relating to Iceland, i.e. Icelandic language and literature, the geography of Iceland and the history of Iceland.

Example:
 800 Literature
 810 Icelandic literature
 819 Old Icelandic literature
 819.3 Sagas of Icelanders

For details, see Landsbókasafn | Flokkun rita (in Icelandic).