Work, expression, manifestation, item … blog.
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).
Cheryl Tarsala, who’s teaching a cataloguing course at the library school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (or Shampoo-Banana, as some call it), has a blog called The Quaquaversal Cataloger. She mentioned that Tuesday morning she was going to see Arlene Taylor (whom you’ll know from Wynar’s Introduction to Cataloging and Classification and much else) give a talk on FRBR.
The word continues to spread!