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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CLA session today

Posted by: William Denton, 16 June 2006 7:00 am
Categories: Conferences

I mentioned this before but since it’s my national library association I’ll point it out again: today there’s a FRBR session at the Canadian Library Association conference in Ottawa:

Friday, June 16, 2006 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

47. Demystifying FRBR and FRAR

Are FRBR and FRAR related? Find out all about the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records and the new Functional Requirements for Authority Records. What is each of them about? How are they interrelated? How were they developed? Discuss their implications for library systems. Participants will learn: What FRBR and FRAR are; and the status of ongoing work in this area.

Speaker: Tom Delsey, Consultant, Thomas J. Delsey Consulting, Ottawa, ON

This session will be of interest to: Technical services and systems librarians

If you’re at the CLA and reading this while wondering how to plan your day, you should go. If you do go, leave a comment and tell the rest of us what happened!