FRBR and Ranganathan's Colon Book Numbers: Exploring a Symbiotic Relationship.

Library catalogues are significant surrogates of the documents in the library collection. This paper first describes the conceptual model of FRBR. Then it shifts its focus and goes on to describe the Colon Book Numbers of S.R. Ranganathan. Subsequently, it explores a symbiotic relationship between Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and Colon Book Numbers. The study reveals that many of the features of FRBR are already present in Colon Book Numbers. The paper concludes that catalogues adopting FRBR model can go for a full-fledged book numbering system like Colon Book Numbers, so that, a simple call number search can also bring together all the entity-relationships in the retrievals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]