Name

in the national language(s) and script(s) : Biblioteca de Catalunya

in English : National Library of Catalonia

 

Location/Address

Carrer de l'Hospital, 56.

08001 Barcelona

SPAIN

 

Web site

http://www.bnc.cat/eng

 

Contact

snb@bnc.cat

 

Short description of the institution:

The Biblioteca de Catalunya was created in 1907. It has competences on collecting, preserving and disseminating the bibliographic heritage, bibliographic standards and cataloguing. (For further information: http://www.bnc.cat/content/download/2752/22627/version/1/file/BCguia_ang.pdf)

 

Short description of the authority data

 

Name: Catàleg d'Autoritats de Noms i Títols de Catalunya (CANTIC).

CANTIC is led by the Biblioteca de Catalunya and it is a cooperative authority file within the Catàleg Col·lectiu de les Universitats de Catalunya (University Union Catalogue of Catalonia, http://ccuc-client.cbuc.cat/*eng). Participants: http://cantic.bnc.cat/participants

 

Authorities web site : http://cantic.bnc.cat/

Described entities:

o   Names, titles and name-titles

o   Geographical names (only political jurisdictions)

Quantity/number of records: 222,837 (April 2018)

Data provided in the authority records (in MARC21 format)

o   Established heading

o   Variant heading

o   Related heading

o   Sources consulted

 

Data provided to VIAF (April 2018)

-          185,361 authority records

-          3,470.379 bibliographic records