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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Bedford (Texas) Public Library gets LibraryThing

Posted by: William Denton, 26 August 2007 7:58 am
Categories: Blog Mentions, LibraryThing

I’m a month late in pointing this out, but it’s still of interest. Tim Spalding explains it all and has links on the Thingology blog: Bedford Public Library adds LibraryThing for Libraries. The FRBRy part of it is that LibraryThing’s way of grouping manifestations into works means that if you’re looking at a book in the catalogue you also get links to other manifestations of the same work. Great if the book you want seems to be checked out, but actually there’s a hardcover edition available you hadn’t noticed before.