BIB includes - without any attempts to exhaustivity - publications on archives (class 5), bibliography (class 3), reading (class 22) and children books (class 23), publishing (class 21) and the history of the book (class 20). For an overview see the Classification scheme.

BIB includes Italian library literature in the widest sense: books, journals, etc., published in Italy but also - without any attempts to exhaustivity - writings in Italian or by Italian authors published in other countries and writings on Italian subjects.

BIB includes books (monographs), serials and especially journal articles, from LIS and non-LIS sources, and contributions in conference proceedings, collective works, etc.
State and regional laws, national standards and a selection of grey literature and ephemeral publications are also included.
BIB includes selected electronic resources, with over 2000 checked links to websites and papers freely available on the Internet.
Book reviews are noted in the record of the publication reviewed.

All publications, as far as possible, are seen by the editors: the asterisk following the record number indicates descriptions taken from other sources.
The description includes full bibliographic data, with a content note if applicable.
Annotations in a number of records are added to help undestanding of the subject matter and keyword searching, but no abstracts or subject headings are provided.
For materials held by the Library of the Italian Library Association (Biblioteca AIB) the shelf-mark is given.

Other information - in Italian only - about contents of BIB and credits is available.

For any comments, suggestions, errors or omissions detected, please write to editoria@aib.it.

Alberto Petrucciani