Arlene Taylor’s Understanding FRBR is on the shelves
Understanding FRBR: What It Is and How It Will Affect Our Retrieval Tools, edited by Arlene Taylor, is now available. If your local bookstore doesn’t have it available, or you don’t see it at a library conference vendor table, you can order it from Amazon.com or your country’s Amazon or some other online bookstore. UPDATE: Or find it in WorldCat and keep an eye on xISBN to see if any new manifestations are published.
It’s a collection of chapters by different authors on different topics. Here’s a list:
- Introduction
- 1: An Introduction to Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) by Arlene G. Taylor
- 2: An Introduction to Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD) by Glenn E. Patton
- 3: Understanding the Relationship between FRBR and FRAD by Glenn E. Patton
- 4: FRBR and the History of Cataloging by William Denton
- 5: The Impact of Research on the Development of FRBR by Edward T. O’Neill
- 6: Bibliographic Families and Superworks by Richard P. Smiraglia
- 7: FRBR and RDA (Resource Description and Access) by Barbara B. Tillett
- 8: FRBR and Archival Materials by Alexander C. Thurman
- 9: FRBR and Works of Art, Architecture, and Material Culture by Martha Baca and Sherman Clarke
- 10: FRBR and Cartographic Materials by Mary Lynette Larsgaard
- 11: FRBR and Moving Image Materials by Martha M. Yee
- 12: FRBR and Music by Sherry L. Vellucci
- 13: FRBR and Serials by Steven C. Shadle
That’s me who did chapter four. I haven’t seen the book yet but I’m thrilled that Arlene Taylor included me, and I’m greatly looking forward to reading the other chapters.
The final edits for the book were due in the summer, before all the recent excitement about restructuring RDA and so on. I don’t know if or how that will affect how, for example, Barbara Tillett’s chapter reads today as compared to how it read in June. If you read the book, please leave a comment if you liked it or didn’t.