Information Services

Library Services

The SLBS library houses all of Saint Lucia's National standards, as well as a collection of  regional and international Standards. Journals, monographs, pamphlets, catalogues, magazines and reports in many fields relating to standardization also form part of the collection. 

The library plays a vital role in supporting the information and education needs of the organisation and its research work. Its primary function is to serve SLBS staff and SLBS Technical Committee members by facilitating access to relevant information sources. The library is also open to the general public and more specifically persons/organisations and businesses requiring standards, quality,  conformity  assessment and measurement related information. 

Affiliation with other Standards Libraries

The SLBS library is part of the ISO Information Network (ISONET).  ISONET is an agreement between standardizing bodies to combine their efforts to make information on standards, technical regulations and related matters readily available to each other. ISONET is founded on the principle that in each country there is a body - usually the ISO member - which has a broad knowledge of standardizing and regulatory activities in that country. 

As a party to ISONET, the SLBS collects processes and stores information about standards, technical regulations and similar documents generated in St. Lucia. This information is available and exchanged with ISO members on a reciprocal basis. Through this network , the SLBS library can help users find information on ISO standards and on the several hundred thousand standards and technical regulations in use throughout the world.