Work, expression, manifestation, item … blog.
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).
Someone tagged Thursday’s Unshelved comic strip with frbr at Delicious. If you start at Monday’s strip you can see the whole week’s series, which are grounded in FRBR-based humour about the item entity.
(If the library has multiple copies of the book the woman wanted (multiple items of the same manifestation, probably), then why didn’t Dewey give one to her in the first place? Why say he’d reserve one if they were on the shelf?)
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