TitlePhilippine National Bibliography (PNB)
Web site addresshttp://116.50.242.173/
Start date1974
Period covered1974
Current size9,188
Media coveredPNB covers the following:
● Books, pamphlets and non-book materials copyrighted under Presidential Decree No. 49. This is a decree on the protection of Intellectual Property or otherwise known as the New Copyright Law of the Philippines
● Non-copyrighted books, pamphlets and non-book materials regardless of the number of pages.
● Government publications including presidential decrees, orders, proclamations, and instructions;
● Annuals, first issues of newspapers and periodicals;
● Conference, seminar or workshop papers;
● Thesis and dissertations;
● Titles reprinted in the Philippines under PD No. 285 as amended by PD No. 400
● Books for children
● Artists’ books
General selection criteriaPhilippine National Bibliography (PNB) is an ongoing cumulation of the authoritative and comprehensive list of books and other materials published or distributed in the Philippines or the Filipiniana collection. It is produced in accordance with international standards. Wenceslao E. Retana, a famous Filipino journalist and Filipinologist defined FILIPINIANA publications as follows:
FILIPINIANA publications as follows:

1. Those that were printed in the Philippines irrespective of the subject they treat of, because all of those are indispensable for the accurate study of the typography of the Archipelago;

2. Those that are about the Philippines, no matter in what language they were written or the place where they were printed because they are more or less necessary for the study of the country; and

3. Those that were written by Filipinos on any subject, regardless of their imprint, because they are of great use to measure the intellectual capacity, laboriousness, taste, ambitions, etc. of Filipinos.

Selection criteria for digital resourcesFormats are accepted that allow a digital long term preservation.
Exclusions policies appliedComputer games, foreign publications, ephemera materials
Primary organisation responsible for national bibliographic controlNational Library of the Philippines (Catalog Division, Bibliographic Services Division, Information Technology Division, Collection Development Division)
Web site address of national bibliographic agencyweb.nlp.gov.ph
Co-operative structures or  relationships supporting the production of the national bibliographyNational Library of the Philippines, Legal Deposit, ISBN/ISSN/ISMN National Agency
Single integrated or multiple categorised bibliographiesMultiple Categorised Bibliographies
Sources of bibliographic metadata used to produce national bibliographyIn-house
Relationship to national legal deposit legislation or voluntary deposit arrangementsThe National Library of the Philippines is one of the implementing agency of the PD 812 or Legal Deposit
Relationship to national Cataloguing in Publication (CIP) programmeThe National Library of the Philippines, Catalog Division is in charge of Cataloguing-in-Publication. Yes, pre publication records are included in the Philippine National Bibliography
Form of publication used for the national bibliographyOnline Database (2016 to current); scanned copies available online (1974 to 2015)
Access options to national bibliographic metadatahttp://116.50.242.173
Free service using save record BIBTEX, Dublin Core (XML), ISBD, MARC (Non-unicode/MARC-8), MARCXML, MODS (XML), RIS, MARC (Unicode/UTF-8), MARC (Unicode/UTF-8, Standard)
Online access optionsWeb Catalogue of KOHA Integrated Library System
Formats & media available for delivery of record sets from the national bibliographyBIBTEX, Dublin Core (XML), ISBD, MARC (Non-unicode/MARC-8), MARCXML, MODS (XML), RIS, MARC (Unicode/UTF-8), MARC (Unicode/UTF-8, Standard)
Metadata enhancements offered via online servicesBook jackets / covers available at https://ins-poas.nlp.gov.ph/recently-published-books
Web 2.0 services offeredNone
Frequency of service updatesMonthly
Target audiences for servicesGeneral public including academic/public libraries, members of the public, researchers, book tradeLibrarian professionals, general public, researchers, book trade and union catalogue (Unicat).
Uses made of  services offeredAdvance notification of publications, acquisition/selection, derived cataloguing, retrospective conversion, interlibrary loans, understanding national publishing output
https://ins-poas.nlp.gov.ph/recently-published-books
Pricing policy for national bibliographic servicesFree
Under what conditions may the metadata be re-used for other products?Released in public domain without restriction
Metadata formatsMARC21
Cataloguing codeRDA, ISBD
Levels of description offeredFull
Subject standards
ClassificationDDC, LCC, Classification Scheme for Philippine Government Publications
Subject heading scheme or thesaurusLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Name authority standards or Name authority fileNone
Is NBA affiliated to IFLA SC?Yes, Bibliographic Services Division and Catalog Division
Member of the International Standard Bibliographic Description Technical Working Group
Date information submitted25/10/2022
Information supplied byJennifer B. Dimasaca, Susan M. Zamora, Maricris L. Abancia
emails [email protected] ; [email protected]; [email protected]