Danish Agency for Culture (before 1.1.2012: Danish Agency for Libraries and Media) is Registration Authority for ISO 15511 Information and documentation - International Standard Identifier for Libraries and Related Organizations (ISIL).

The purpose of ISIL is to define and promote the use of a set of standard identifiers for the unique identification of libraries and related organizations with a minimum impact on already existing systems.

A national or institutional allocation agency assigns the specific identifier for a library or an organization. Libraries and organizations have to contact their national agency to get an ISIL standard identifier.

Contact ISIL/RA:
isil@bs.dk
Leif Andresen

National ISIL Allocation Agencies and Country code prefix for the identifiers

AR	Argentine Republic	Argentine Standardization and Certification Institute (IRAM)	n/a
AT	Austria	Die Österreichische Bibliothekenverbund und Service GmbH	Search
AU	Australia	National Library of Australia	Search
BE	Belgium	Royal Library of Belgium	Search
BY	Belarus	National Library of Belarus	n/a
CA	Canada	Library and Archives Canada	Search
CH	Switzerland	Swiss National Library	Search
CY	Cyprus	Cyprus University of Technology – Library	List
DE	Germany	Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin	Search
DK	Denmark	Danish Agency for Culture	List
EG	Egypt	Egyptian National Scientific and Technical Information Network (ENSTINET)	Search
FI	Finland	The National Library of Finland	n/a
FR	France	Agence Bibliographique de l'Enseignement Superieur	Search
GB	United Kingdom	British Library	n/a
GL	Greenland	Central and Public Library of Greenland	List
IL	Israel	National Library of Israel	List
IR	Islamic Republic of Iran	National Library and Archives of Islamic Republic of Iran of Iran	Search List
IT	Italy	Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche	Search
JP	Japan	National Diet Library	List
KR	Republic of Korea	The National Library of Korea	Search
LU	Luxembourg	Archives nationales de Luxembourg	List
NL	The Netherlands	Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands	n/a
NO	Norway	National Library of Norway	Search
NZ	New Zealand	National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa	Search
RU	Russian Federation	Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology	n/a
SI	The Republic of Slovenia	National and University Library	List
US	United States of America	Library of Congress - under registration	n/a

Non-national ISIL Allocation Agencies and code prefix for the identifiers

M	Library of Congress - outside US	Library of Congress - under registration	n/a
O	Code O (letter) for OCLC for technical encoding in e.g. RFID tags.	See OCLC	-
OCLC	WorldCat Symbol	OCLC	Search Search
ZDB	Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Zeitschriftendatenbank	Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin	Search

2013-05-07 : The ISIL/SA have sent the annual report to ISO TC46/SC4.

2012-07-11 : Archives nationales de Luxembourg is approved as National ISIL Allocation Agency for Luxembourg.

2012-05-21 : Links to Japanese National Agency for ISIL and lists of Japanese ISILs are added.

2012-04-02 : The ISIL/SA have sent the annual report to ISO TC46/SC4.

2012-01-01 : Danish Agency for Libraries and Media was January 1, 2012 merged with The Danish Arts Agency, and the Heritage Agency of Denmark to The Danish Agency for Culture, which is an agency under the aegis of the Danish Ministry of Culture. The Danish Agency for Culture continues to manage ISIL Registration Authority.

2011-11-02 : Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology is approved as National ISIL Allocation Agency for Russian Federation.

2011-08-31 : National Diet Library is approved as National ISIL Allocation Agency for Japan. Website will follow October 2011.

2011-08-22 : The new version of ISO 15511 is published.

2011-07-25 : The text about Structure is updated to give better guidance inspired of some remarks to the last FDIS ballot.