ICCU
Name :
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in
the national language(s) and script(s) : Istituto centrale per il Catalogo
unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche (ICCU)
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in
English : Central Institute for the
Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and for Bibliographic Information (ICCU)
Location/Address :
Viale Castro
Pretorio, 105
00185 Roma
(Italia)
Web site :
Contact :
Flavia Bruni
Short description of the institution:
ICCU is the technical-scientific contact point for the
General Direction for Library Heritage and Cultural Institutes. This goal is
being pursued thanks to a strategy of strong cooperation among Italian libraries.
The result of this cooperation is the creation of the National Library Service
(SBN), the network of the Italian Libraries which ICCU manages. Moreover, ICCU
promotes and coordinates national census of manuscripts of the 16th
Century Italian editions.
To support the cataloguing activity, it is responsible for
setting guidelines and for producing and disseminating standard cataloguing
rules covering all the typologies of
materials: from manuscripts to multimedia documents.
Furthermore, ICCU has a deep expertise in digitisation
standards and guidelines. It coordinates digital cultural project on national
level (Internet Culturale) and at European level ICCU is involved in many digitisation project
(MINERVA, MICHAEL, ATHENA).
Short description of the authority data:
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Authorities
web site : www.sbn.it
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Described
entities:
o
Persons
o
Corporate
bodies
o
Subject
authority records
o
Dewey
authority records
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Number
of records for each type of authority data:
As of July 10, 2013
o
Persons:
183.711
o
Corporate
bodies: 15.062
o
Subject
authority records (National Library of Florence): 264.695
o
Dewey
authority records: 225.475
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Data
provided in the authority records: In Unimarc (A)
Data provided to VIAF and number of records :
Authority
records for:
o names of
persons
o corporate
bodies.
As of February 2012
o Authority
records for names of persons: 43.506
o Authority
records for names of Corporate bodies: 56
o
Bibliographic records: 43.506
Subject
authority records and Dewey authority records are excluded from ICCU deliveries
to VIAF.