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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NGC4Lib mailing list

Posted by: William Denton, 12 June 2006 7:14 am
Categories: Uncategorized

If you read any library-related weblogs at all you’ve probably already seen Eric Lease Morgan’s announcement of the new NGC4Lib mailing list (that’s “next-generation catalogues for libraries”). One of the possible topics for discussion mentioned in the announcement is, “To what degree should traditional cataloging practices be used in such a thing, or to what degree should new and upcoming practices such as FRBR be exploited?”

The list got off to a lively start as you can see in its archives.