The National Library continues work on the completion of electronic database of information resources and assignment of ISBN and ISSN numbers to local publications
The National Library of Uzbekistan till 2012 along with traditional card-catalog worked on electronic catalog. At present Division of National Bibliographic Databases Formation replenishes the AILS electronic database with materials of Uzbekistan studies.
As of January 14-18, 2012 the electronic catalog was replenished with 81 bibliographic records of newspapers articles, 14 records of journals articles, in total 523 bibliographic records and 482 bibliographic records were edited.
Regarding issuing of International Standard Book Number (ISBN) and International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) for local publications, the National Library issued 38 ISBN numbers (books for adults 37, books for children – 1). 13 contracts for 77 titles of literature for adults were composed.
The Library made contracts for 156 ISSN numbers (8 were approved). 139 contracts were composed to periodicals.