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

ISIL@remove-this.slks.dk

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	Die Österreichische Bibliothekenverbund und Service GmbH	Search
AU	Australia	National Library of Australia	Search
BE	Belgium	Royal Library of Belgium	Search
BY	Belarus	National Library of Belarus	n/a
BG	Bulgaria	National Library of Bulgaria	Search
CA	Canada	Library and Archives Canada	n/a
CH	Switzerland	Swiss National Library	Search
CY	Cyprus	Cyprus University of Technology – Library	List
CZ	Czech Republic	National Library of the Czech Republic	Search
DE	Germany	Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin	Search
DK	Denmark	Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces	List
EG	Egypt	Egyptian National Scientific and Technical Information Network (ENSTINET)	Search
FI	Finland	The National Library of Finland	Search
FR	France	Agence Bibliographique de l'Enseignement Superieur	Search
GB	United Kingdom	British Library	List
GL	Greenland	Central and Public Library of Greenland	n/a
HU	Hungary	National Széchényi Library	List
IL	Israel	National Library of Israel	List
IR	Islamic Republic of Iran	National Library and Archives of Islamic Republic of Iran	n/a
IT	Italy	Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche	Search
JP	Japan	National Diet Library	List
KR	Republic of Korea	The National Library of Korea	n/a
KZ	Republic of Kazakhstan	National Library of the Republic of Kazachstan	n/a
LU	Luxembourg	Archives nationales de Luxembourg	List
MD	Republic of Moldova	National Library of the Republic of Moldova	n/a
NL	The Netherlands	Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands	Search
NO	Norway	National Library of Norway	Search
NP	Nepal	Institute for Social Policy & Research Development Pvt. Ltd.	n/a
NZ	New Zealand	National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa	Search
QA	Qatar	Qatar National Library (QNL)	Search
RO	Romania	National Library of Romania	Search
RU	Russian Federation	Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology	Search
SI	The Republic of Slovenia	National and University Library	List
SK	Slovak Republic	Slovak National Library	List
US	United States of America	Library of Congress

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