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
Contact
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
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3,470.379
bibliographic records