A weblog following developments around the world in FRBR: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records.

Maintained by William Denton, Web Librarian at York University. Suggestions and comments welcome at wtd@pobox.com.


Confused? Try What Is FRBR? (2.8 MB PDF) by Barbara Tillett, or Jenn Riley's introduction. For more, see the basic reading list.

Books: FRBR: A Guide for the Perplexed by Robert Maxwell (ISBN 9780838909508) and Understanding FRBR: What It Is and How It Will Affect Our Retrieval Tools edited by Arlene Taylor (ISBN 9781591585091) (read my chapter FRBR and the History of Cataloging).

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4 June 2005

Barbara Tillett, What is FRBR?

Filed under: Library of Congress, Papers — William Denton @ 9:03 pm

What is FRBR?, by Barbara Tillett of the Library of Congress, is available as a PDF online, and also as a printed booklet. It’s a good introduction to FRBR and it includes the “family of works” spectrum that Tillett drew up to show how many changes can be made to a work before it becomes a new work (or expression).