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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20 July 2007

Amigos Library Services: FRBR-Applied WorldCat Comparison

Filed under: OCLC — William Denton @ 7:24 am

Amigos Library Services is new to me, but they’ve been around for quite a while as a group of libraries in the southwestern United States helping each other. Yesterday they announced FRBR-Applied WorldCat Comparison and said, “Individual subscribers now have the option of applying elements of the FRBR algorithm to your WorldCat comparison via the FirstSearch Administrative Module.” I’m not quite sure what that means, but there you have it.