Developing FRBR-Based Library Catalogs for Users
Yin Zhang, Maja Zumer, Athena Salaba, Tanja Mercun, Jennifer Bowen,
Rebekah Kilzer and Diane Neal
ASIST 2011 Annual Meeting
New Orleans, LA, October 9-12, 2011
Summary
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) has a direct impact on the library and information
science community in the areas of information organization, information representation, and system design. Although
FRBR offers great potential for libraries to develop catalogs that function more effectively to help users access
bibliographic data, there has been a lack of both guidance in FRBR implementation and FRBR user research in related
development. In this session, panelists presenting three different projects will discuss how they implemented FRBR
in library catalogs and what user research they have done to inform system design and to evaluate the effectiveness of
the FRBR systems. This panel will help address some key questions about FRBR research and development: (1) To
what extent does the FRBR model represent how users perceive bibliographic data? (2) How can FRBR be
implemented in library catalogs? (3) How are FRBR-based systems helpful to users?
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