Requiem for the National Bibliography? The Implications of Internet Access to National Library Catalogues

John W East
j.east@library.uq.edu.au

This paper begins with a brief survey of the nature and use of the printed current national bibliography. It then provides an overview of the national library catalogues which are at present freely accessible via the Internet. The usefulness of the printed national bibliography and the Internet-accessible national library catalogue are compared. The author concludes that the printed national bibliography is being supplanted by the national library catalogue, but that there is still a role for national bibliographies published electronically.