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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28 October 2006

Librarypages podcast

Filed under: Audio/Video, RDA — William Denton @ 7:47 am

For some relaxing weekend listening, you might be interested in the first in a new podcast series, Librarypages. In the first one, Joan Wilton talks with Prof. Shawne Miksa about cataloguing (9.4 MB MP3, 20 minutes long). (Here’s Miksa’s home page.)

They don’t mention FRBR, but they do discuss Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules and the upcoming FRBR-influenced Resource Description and Access. If you’re a cataloguer or the kind of person who debates MARC records with your friends, there won’t be much new here, but it’s still a good conversation. If you’re from outside the library field it’ll give you some background on cataloguing and give you a sense of what librarians talk about.