The ISBN system is used in 148 countries around the world to simplify ordering, stock control, accounting and export procedures in the book industry. The ISBN system also facilitates ordering, acquisition, cataloguing and circulation procedures in libraries and documentation centres. Each listing in this Directory gives the publisher's name and postal address, plus telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address where applicable. Users who have the book in hand or a reference to the book will appreciate being able to search by ISBN to locate the name and address of the publisher. An exciting innovation of the Directory database on the Web is the hypertext link between the ISBN publisher prefix and resAnet , the Web version of the National Library of Canada's online catalogue.
Searchers can move directly to catalogue records for any given publisher's publications.
Publishers who wish to update their contact information in this Directory can easily do so. A simple click will connect them to the Canadian ISBN Agency office at the National Library. The Nova Scotia Library Association is an association for library professionals, non-professionals, students and those who have an interest in working with libraries in all regions of Nova Scotia. There are numerous studies which clearly show a significant relationship between teacher-librarians and scholastic achievement. It has come to the attention of the Nova Scotia Library Association that not one of the seven regional school boards have a coordinator with a library science degree.