Triptych: Artists Ivan Leviev, Christo Stefanov, Georgi Bozhilov, 1974
 
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Processing and cataloguing
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PROCESSING AND CATALOGUING


    The department is in ccharge of the overall processing of newly acquired library items: books, albums, printed music, gramophone records, audiocassettes, CDs, video cassettes, CD-ROM - multimedia, cartographic editions (maps and atlases), loose-leaf graphic works, official publications. They are made accessible through the following system of catalogues and card-index files:

Service catalogues of books:

  • in Bulgarian
  • in Russian and other Cyrillic alphabets
  • in the Roman alphabet

Subject catalogue of books acquired after 1960:

  • Alphabetical subject card-index to the subject catalogue of books

Alphabetical catalogue of albums

  • in Bulgarian
  • in Russian and other Cyrillic alphabets
  • in the Roman alphabet

Subject catalogue of albums

Catalogues of loose-leaf graphic works

Subject catalogue of cartographic editions

Alphabetical catalogue of printed music

Subject catalogue of printed music

Alphabetical catalogue of sound recordings

Subject catalogue of sound recordings

Accessory card-index files - sound recordings:

  • of authors of texts
  • of individual performers
  • of group performers
  • of conductors
  • of foreign names
  • of songs, round dances and ruchenitsas

Alphabetical catalogue of video cassettes

Subject catalogue of video cassettes

Official publications - card-index files:

  • Alphabetical card-index file of author's summaries of dissertations since 1988
  • Alphabetical authors card-index file
  • Subject card-index file

Subject catalogue of books acquired in the period 1944-1960, printed in 14 volumes.

Subject catalogue of books up to 1944 with calligraphic cards of 10 x 9 cm size, in the process of photo copying. By 2000 Vol. 1 - 4, Vol. 6 and Vol. 7 were prepared and published. In 1996 we began building up a local BKAT database of books acquired through legal deposit. In 1997 we started entering also foreign books - in Russian, other Cyrillic and Roman alphabets. The database contains entries of albums, printed music and official publications, as well. It is subject to reorganization and overall editing.

Tel.: +359 32 622-915, Ext. 121
Head Librarian: Lilia Sharkova
E-mail: nbiv-obrab@lycos.com

 



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