The Digital Era has affected bibliographic control operations and modified their systems, mainly those with a national reach at various levels. With this premise, the title National Bibliographic Control in the Digital Era triggers analyzes on how bibliographic control has been impacted by challenges and opportunities for the universalization of knowledge.

In a growing universe of information alternatives, emerging technologies on the Web have been adapted and applied in the ways in which man controls what he produces. That is, what organizes, preserves and disseminates to society through successive generations of bibliographic systems. Throughout the history of knowledge, librarians have developed catalogs for the organization of bibliographic stocks under their custody, giving them the notion of relevance and their socia...