ISIL?

An ISIL identifies an organization, i.e., a library or a related organization, or one of its subordinate units, which is responsible for an action or service in a bibliographic environment. It can be used to identify the originator or holder of a resource. National Library of Korea carries out its role as the secretary of ISO/TC46(Information & Documentation) since 2007, and observes the standards of Information & Documentation fields, and leads the developing of Information & Documentation including ISIL.

※ Contact for ISIL Korea (Office : 82-2-590-0700 extension 5, email: kolisnet@korea.kr)

Structure

An ISIL is consisted of 8 or 16 characters based on Korean Library Code (6 digits) as follows.

8 characters ISIL code

[ex.] National Library of Korea : ISIL KR-011001

16 characters ISIL code

[ex.] National Library of Korea : ISIL KR-00011000000001

Code for organization type

Dataset download

You can download the csv file including the library information with ISIL code from  the link.

The scope of data is limited to libraries participating in the KOLIS-NET (Korean Library Information System Network).