Four FRBR Questions: Shawne Miksa
It’s an exciting week here: two people have answered the Four FRBR Questions. First up is Shawne Miksa, who teaches at the University of North Texas’s School of Library and Information Sciences. She’s the chair of the ALA‘s RDA Implementation Task Force, so she’s got FRBR on her mind, since Resource Description and Access is grounded in FRBR. She’s self-archived some of her publications and you can read Understanding Support of FRBR’s Four User Tasks In MARC-Encoded Bibliographic Records, which was in the ASIST Bulletin 33: 6 (Aug/Sep 2007).
When did you first hear about FRBR?
Probably 2002. The title alone tingled up and down my spine.
What’s your involvement with it now?
Nothing direct, but I am the chair of the RDA Implementation Task Force.
What’s one thing you think the FRBR world needs most?
Patience.
What’s your one-line non-librarian description of FRBR?
Multi-dimensional answer gardens.
Shawne Miksa is the daughter of Francis Miksa, who did that that great talk I linked to a a couple of weeks ago.