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Edna Ferber presentation

Posted by: William Denton, 10 April 2006 7:36 am
Categories: Conferences,OCLC

Here’s a presentation titled Showboating FRBR (And We Don’t Mean Edna!) (1.5 MB PDF). It’s done by someone from the OCLC Western Service Center, I think, but there’s no name and no date on it. It’s on the web site of the California Library Association so I assume it was given at a recent conference or meeting there. It looks like it was a good solid introduction to FRBR, with lots of examples based on Edna Ferber’s Show Boat. At the end there are some screenshots of possible future FRBRized FirstSearch interfaces and a poem, “The Cataloger’s Complaint,” by Patrick Le Boeuf. It’s a rare poem that mentions FRBR and ISBDs.

I found this because someone had tagged it with frbr with del.icio.us.

2 Comments »

  1. This sounds like a Glenn Patton presentation I saw a year or so back.

    Comment by Dorothea — 10 April 2006 @ 8:33 am

  2. PDF was created by someone called ‘laura’ on Thursday, March 31, 2005 at 7:26:43 PM US/Eastern.

    Comment by Simon Spero — 10 April 2006 @ 2:16 pm

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