num_pages: 192
description: What is FRBR and why is everyone talking about it? Is it really going to revolutionize cataloguing? And if so what form will it take? This book is written for librarians bibliographic systems designers library and information science faculty and students and anyone else who is interested in learning about the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and how following the FRBR model can improve access to information through helpful organization of the metadata records that are surrogates for information resources. Serials art music moving images maps and archival materials are just a few of the formats covered. Not for catalogers only!
language: English
title: Understanding FRBR: What It Is and How It Will Affect Our Retrieval Tools
publisher: Libraries Unlimited