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.

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Moen: user tasks important

Posted by: William Denton, 5 September 2006 7:08 am
Categories: Audio/Video,Conferences

Early in August the RLG Members Forum met in Washington, D.C., and talked about More, Better, Faster, Cheaper. They were all recorded and you can download MP3s and watch the slides — thanks to RLG for this. William Moen gave a talk on Catalogers’ Use of MARC: Learning from Artifacts Through Metadata Utilization Analysis (8.8 MB MP3, 25 minutes). In it, he mentions the four FRBR user tasks (find, identify, select, obtain) several times, stresses their importance, and talks about how MARC fields support them. You’ll want to look at his slides as well: