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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15 November 2007

Massive interest in future of cataloguing and, possibly, FRBR, crashes WoGroFuBiCo webcast

Filed under: Library of Congress — William Denton @ 7:50 am

On Monday I pointed out the much-anticipated webcast from the Library of Congress’s Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control.

The webcast was so popular that no-one was actually able to see it. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth on AUTOCAT, and Christine Schwartz’s holiday was ruined. Naturally I attribute much of the interest to the possibility that FRBR would be mentioned.

An archived video of the presentation will go online soon, and the report itself will be available on 30 November. I’ll report on any mentions of FRBR, FRAD, or FRSAR.