ISIL
The purpose of ISIL is to define and promote the use of a set of standard identifiers for the unique identification of libraries and related organizations with a minimum impact on already existing systems.
ISIL identifiers are assigned on request by the ISIL allocation agencies listed below. Libraries and other organisations may request ISILs also to their subordinate units such as branch libraries if and when necessary.
Both ISIL and ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier - ISO 27729) can be used to identify libraries, but they have different functions. ISNI is used in cataloguing for unique identification, whereas ISIL is used in circulation and interlibrary lending.
Contact ISIL Registration Authority
Code | Official name of country | URL for description of identifier | URL for list of libraries/organisations |
AR | Argentine Republic | Argentine Standardization and Certification Institute (IRAM) | n/a |
AT | Austria | ||
AU | Australia | ||
BE | Belgium | ||
BY | Belarus | National Library of Belarus | n/a |
BG | Bulgaria | ||
CA | Canada | ||
CH | Switzerland | ||
CY | Cyprus | ||
CZ | Czech Republic | ||
DE | Germany | ||
DK | Denmark | ||
EG | Egypt | Egyptian National Scientific and Technical Information Network (ENSTINET) | |
FI | Finland | Search | |
FR | France | ||
GB | United Kingdom | British Library* | List |
GL | Greenland | n/a | |
| HR | Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska) | Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica u Zagrebu | List |
HU | Hungary | ||
IL | Israel | ||
IR | Islamic Republic of Iran | n/a | |
IT | Italy | ||
JP | Japan | ||
KR | Republic of Korea | n/a | |
KZ | Republic of Kazakhstan | n/a | |
LU | Luxembourg | ||
MD | Republic of Moldova | n/a | |
NL | The Netherlands | Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands | |
NO | Norway | ||
NP | Nepal | n/a | n/a |
NZ | New Zealand | National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa | Search |
QA | Qatar | ||
RO | Romania | ||
RU | Russian Federation | ||
SI | The Republic of Slovenia | ||
SK | Slovak Republic | List | |
US | United States of America |
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* British Library links currently out of order, due to the Cyber Attack in October 2023
Non-national ISIL Allocation Agencies and code prefix for the identifiers
| EUR | Code for common European organizations | HAEU | List | |
| GTB | Directorio GTBib de centros de prestamo interbibliotecario | Kronosdoc | List | |
| O | Code O (letter) for OCLC for technical encoding in e.g. RFID tags | See OCLC | Search | |
| OCLC | WorldCat Symbol | OCLC | Search | |
| ZDB | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Zeitschriftendatenbank | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin | Search |
Links
An ISIL country code is the equivalent of the codes specified in ISO 3166-1.
See ISO 3166-1 decoding table:
http://www.iso.org/
ISIL is developed within the framework of Technical Committee 46/Subcommittee 4 (TC46/SC4)
TC 46 - Information and Documentation - SC 4 - Technical Interoperability
SC4 at ISO homepage
International Organization for Standardization
http://www.iso.org/
If you want to buy the standard, please contact national member body of ISO:
http://www.iso.org/iso/about/iso_members.htm or go to ISO 15511 in ISO Catalogue