What’s FRBR and Why Do I Care?
What’s FRBR and Why Do I Care? covers an introductory talk Glenn Patton (from OCLC) gave at the Ohio Library Council’s 2005 conference.
I remember in 1996 when the movie Harriet the Spy came out, there was the usual surge of interest in the book. Patron holds were spread across five different bib records: for the hardback book, the large print edition, and three different paperback editions. My tech services manager was kind of enough to bend the rules that summer and merge the records together, so everything was collapsed into a single hold queue.
That’s a situation that FRBR, or Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, is designed to address.