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).
I won’t be posting much until next year, so here’s a FRBR word search (27 KB PDF) you can do if you have some idle minutes. The words listed at the bottom appear in the jumble of letters in the big square, and the point of the game is to find them and draw a circle around each one. Children will also find this vastly amusing, so feel free to print off extra copies for youngsters.