WoGroFuBiCo draft report
The draft report of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control is out! Comments are open until 15 December, and the group says it will submit the final report to the Library of Congress by 9 January 2008.
Pre-WoGroFuBiCo Roundup
It came to my attention recently that not everyone — not even all librarians! — cares about bibliographic control. Yah boo sucks to them, says I. Today we expect the release of the Working Group on the Future of the Bibliographic Control‘s draft report. While we wait, especially to see what they say about FRBR, FRAD, and RDA, I’ll clear out a backlog of recent links I haven’t mentioned. Get ready for the deluge, people.
- ngc4lib threads mentioning FRBR: see “NGC4LIB evaluation?” and “Trouble with FRBR/RDA.”
- From the web4lib archives, Lars Aronsson’s FRBR and Beyond — Can You Draw It? Follow the thread.
- AUTOCAT is all over this like maple syrup on a pancake, too.
- Christine Schwartz, Testing FRBR, with a pointer to Jennifer Bowen’s FRBR: Coming Soon to Your Library? (923 KB PDF)
- Jenn Riley, A Bright Future for Bibliographic Control.
- Laura J. Smart, LoC Future of Bibliographic Control and RDA.
Some other stuff:
- A Koha commit: Enabling FRBR system pref for OPAC, to enable/disable display of other editions.
- Back in March 2007, Julie Webster-Matthews of LexisNexis wrote Got FRBR?. She says this blog “has become the ‘official’ conduit of information related to FRBR.” Note the proper use of scare quotes.