Useful resources
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 September 24-28, 2012 the electronic catalog was replenished with 60 bibliographic records of newspapers articles, 17 records of journals articles, in total 539 bibliographic records and 222 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 79 ISBN numbers (books for adults – 76, books for children – 3). 5 contracts for 32 titles of literature for adults and 6 for children were composed.
The Library made contracts for 31 ISSN numbers (7 were approved) 4 contracts were composed.