Ahead of the 2016 holiday period, the National Book Council for Malta has released its ISBN database online and freely available as open data.

We would like to congratulate Ms Basema Younes on her recent award for the Best Emirati Book by an Emirati Creative Writer, which was presented to her in early Novem

The International ISBN Agency has created a new webpage on its website to link to relevant publications.

In September 2016 the ISBN community took part in the 2016 Annual General Meeting of the International ISBN Agency, which was held in Vienna, Austria.