1 PAGE FORWARD> <PAGE BACK Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology– August/September 2007 PAGE FORWARD> CONTENTS <PAGE BACK n 15 DEPARTMENTS [2] Editor’s Desktop [3] Inside ASIS&T [38] Student Column Second Life, Serious Leisure and LIS by Richard Urban [41] IA Column An Information Architecture Approach to Building a Much Better Digital Library by Stacy Merrill Surla FEATURES Standards in Electronic Resource Management 32] Report compiled by Rafal Kasprowski BULLETIN of the American Society for Information Science and Technology August /September 2007 PREVIOUS VIEW ASIS&T 2007 Big Names Tapped for ASIS&T 2007 Keynote Addresses Anthea Stratigos and Clifford Lynch are making their plans to address plenary sessions at the 2007 ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Joining Research and Practice: Social Computing and Information Science, October 19-24, in Milwaukee... (Inside ASIS&T, p. 3) Volume 33, Number 6 ISSN: 1550-8366 SPECIAL SECTION Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records 6] Introduction by Yin Zhang Introducing the Functional Requirements 7] for Bibliographic Records and Related IFLA Developments by Pat Riva Understanding FRBR as a Conceptual 12 ] Model: FRBR and the Bibliographic Universe by Allyson Carlyle From a Conceptual Model to Application 17 ] and System Development by Athena Salaba and Yin Zhang Understanding Support of FRBR’s Four 24] User Tasks in MARC-Encoded Bibliographic Records by Shawne D. Miksa 27] FRBR: The End of the Road or a New Beginning? by Maja ˇ Zumer 30] Critical Issues and Challenges Facing FRBR Research and Practice by Yin Zhang and Athena Salaba