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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9 July 2005

How FRBR is Changing Library Services

Filed under: Conferences, Papers — William Denton @ 7:30 am

Jenn Riley, whose Inquiring Librarian blog I’ve linked to before, came back from a conference last year and gave a presentation, at her library at Indiana University, called “How the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) are Changing Library Services: A Report from an ALCTS (Association for Library Collections and Technical Services) Conference.” The presentation slides and handouts (both PDFs) are available (other formats available here).

It’s a general overview meant for people who are new to FRBR, so there won’t be much new for most readers of this blog, but there are some good examples in the middle of how a FRBRized online catalogue could look and how FRBR helps collocate works and expressions and manifestations. I always like seeing what other people use as examples.