Nepalese National Bibliography

Maintenance of records published within a country is the basic role of a national bibliography. It is a history or description of writings and publications, which reveals the heritage of a country in the form of culture, society, history and literature of a nation.

Since 1981, with the joint venture of Nepal Research Centre, Tribhuvan University Central Library (TUCL) has been compiling Nepalese National Bibliography (NNB) annually. Though national bibliographies are published by the national library of the respective country, TUCL has been publishing this bibliography including all the publications published in Nepal excluding periodicals and newspapers, maps, musical scores, textbooks, schoolbooks, ephemeral materials such as trade catalogues, telephone directories and public relations pamphlets.

The main purpose of a bibliography is not to give full information about a quarry but to show the way of a quarry. For this, books in all languages are listed in a combined sequence under the various subject headings. Title in Devanagari script is transliterated into roman script with diacritical marks. Nepali titles are transliterated according to the Turner system. Newari titles according to a slightly modified system of useful transliteration of Sanskrit. Author's names are however, not transliterated when the language of their books is in English.

For the easy access to the particular field, bibliography is divided into four parts: Classified subject index, Author index, Title index and Subject index so that users or researchers can retrieve desired document in least time or as quickly as possible.  Generally, bibliography contains two main points – main bibliographical references and indexes and it also provide users guide i.e. how to use bibliography and how it is arranged.

NNB Publications Statistics