UNIMARC & friends charting the new landscape of library standards : proceedings of the international conference held in Lisbon, 20-21 March 2006 (Saur, 2007)
Copyright 2007 by International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, The Hague, The Netherlands
Includes bibliographical references
Frontmatter; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Welcome address; IFLA's Evolving Programme to Produce and Promote the International Standard Bibliographic Descriptions: Past, Present, and Future; The Future of Cataloguing Codes and Systems: IME ICC, FRBR, and RDA; Modelling Bibliographic Information: Purposes, Prospects, Potential; Extending FRBR Concepts to Authority Data; IFLA UBCM Working Group on FRANAR Recommendations for Potential Changes in the UNIMARC Authorities Format
With the expansion of the World Wide Web during the last decade, libraries and their standards face an ever-complex environment, with new types, genres and forms of information resources. Changing information network structures and the emergence of new retrieval methods all play their roles. A three day conference was held in Lisbon, Portugal in March 2006, in order to review the current state of bibliographic standards and to discuss a number of questions in charting a future for their development