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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25 September 2006

Hearn, review of FRBR: Hype or Cure-All?

Filed under: Papers — William Denton @ 7:45 am

Stephen Hearn reviewed FRBR: Hype or Cure-All? (the special FRBR issue of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly edited by Patrick Le Boeuf) in Library Resources and Technical Services 50: 3, July 2006. He concludes, “The volume under review does a good job of bringing to the surface many of the issues being debated in the FRBR discussion… Perhaps the best answer to the question posed in the volume’s subtitle is that FRBR is neither hype nor cure-all, but still a work in progress.”