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).

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20 April 2006

Changing Nature of the Catalog: final

Filed under: Library of Congress, Papers — William Denton @ 7:55 am

I linked to the draft version before, but now the final version is out: The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools (175 KB PDF) by Karen Calhoun of Cornell University Library, prepared for the Library of Congress.

As noted earlier, applying FRBR concepts to improve the user’s experience with catalogs was often mentioned by interviewees. Much is appearing in the library literature about deploying FRBR concepts [71, 72, 73, 74, 75]. There is excitement around the Research Library Group’s RedLightGreen [76] and OCLC’s work-based catalog investigations such as Curioser [77].

Feel the excitement!