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The IFLA Library Reference Model

Date

December 6, 2019 14:00 - 16:30

Location

Montreal

Details

Website: https://abqla.qc.ca/en/an-event-of-the-cataloguing-technical-services-
section-of-abqla/

The IFLA Library Reference Model (IFLA LRM), approved in August 2017, was developed to consolidate the three existing models in IFLA’s family of conceptual models, FRBR, FRAD, and FRSAD, into a single unified reference model that covers all aspects of bibliographic and authority information. The IFLA LRM model is a high-level conceptual model and operates at a greater level of generality than the preceding models. Although the new model brings many changes, there is also much continuity with the key ideas present in the previous models. Following these themes of continuity and change, these two sessions will provide a solid grounding on the LRM model, making the links with the previous models while clearly highlighting the innovations. This will provide background helpful for familiarizing with the new RDA Toolkit. Resource Description and Access (RDA) was originally based on the FRBR and FRAD models that are superseded by IFLA LRM, and so to remain current the restructuring of RDA in the 3R project has adopted IFLA LRM as its underlying conceptual model.

Participants will learn:

  • Understand the distinction between a conceptual model and a set of cataloguing guidelines;
  • Understand the issues that led to the consolidation of IFLA models as IFLA LRM;
  • Understand the IFLA LRM definitions of the key entities: work, expression, manifestation and item;Understand agents in IFLA LRM;
  • Understand nomens and the modelling of bibliographic identities.

Presenter
Pat Riva, Associate University Librarian, Collection Services at Concordia University, Chair of the IFLA FRBR Review Group (2005-2013) & its Consolidation Editorial Group which prepared the IFLA Library Reference Model, which was approved as an IFLA standard in August 2017.