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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19 July 2005

Stephen Abram makes a brief mention

Filed under: Blog Mentions — William Denton @ 7:43 am

I didn’t know he had a blog, but he does, and he mentioned FRBR there yesterday: More Pressure for Better Portals, on Stephen Abram’s blog Stephen’s Lighthouse.

It is also interesting to see how some folks have adapted their OPACs to discover a wider range of formats (like audio files, e-books, streaming media, etc.). It seems that these experiments are still coming somewhat from a physical object mindset rather than a virtual object mindset. I suppose when the next generation of AACR3 and FRBR rules are ultimately promulgated we’ll need to see another mindset.

Abram is a vice president at Sirsi, the library system vendor, and is just finishing up a year as president of the Canadian Library Association.