To administer and manage international standards numbers for monographs, Serials and musical work- ISSN, ISBN, ISMN as the National Agency
To introduce international and National standards methods and norms for book processing through the organization of seminars and workshops
To implement the National Library of Nigeria Cataloguing-in publications (CIP) program, by providing preliminary cataloguing data to be printed in Nigerian publications
The development and maintenance of ISSN, ISBN, ISMN database for local and international bibliographic access and exchange