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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26 June 2005

Jenn Riley on FRBR and coming out of the woodwork

Filed under: Blog Mentions — William Denton @ 9:04 pm

Jenn Riley, at her Inquiring Librarian blog, mentions FRBR and reactions to it in an entry called Coming Out of the Woodwork:

I’ve been noticing lately just how progressive librarians are. It gives me a nice warm fuzzy feeling inside every time I see evidence of this phenomenon.

FRBR is a good example. A colleague of mine recently described FRBR as a “religion,” and I think that’s not entirely untrue. But I’m increasingly seeing rank-and-file librarians (not just us “digital” folks or special collections librarians who do things “differently” anyways, according to one popular perception) show an interest in it.