List of Library Related Standards, Their Purpose and Year of Origin

Name of the Library Related Standard	Purpose / Used for	Year
American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)	Character encoding standard	1960
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)	Identification of book	1969
International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD)	Bibliographic description	1971
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)	Identification of a serial	1971
ISO 9000	Series of standards that define, establish, and maintain an effective quality assurance system for manufacturing and service industries	1987
Z39.50	Searching and retrieving information from a database	1988
Unicode	Consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text	1989
ANSI/NISO Z39.2-1994	Bibliographic descriptions	1994
Bluetooth	Exchanging data over short distances	1994
ISO 23950:1998	Searching and retrieving information from a database	1998
ANSI/NISO Z39.50-2003	Searching and retrieving information from a database	2003
ISO 2709:2008	Bibliographic descriptions	2008

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