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.


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13 December 2005

Librarian in Black waits for FRBR

Filed under: Blog Mentions — William Denton @ 7:17 am

In Authority Control in Library Thing, Sarah Houghton mentions FRBR in a post about authority control at Library Thing:

Users care about authority control. Why? Because it’s a pain in the butt to have to click on 7 slightly differing entries for Gabriel Garcia Marquez to find all the relevant items in the catalog. The same thing happens with title authority control. I can’t wait for FRBR to take hold in our catalogs…either that, or this user-level authority control. Anything would be better than the messes we have to deal with now.

When full FRBRosity is achieved, authority control will fix all these problems.