Building on work previously presented at this seminar, we propose some fundamental changes to bibliographic and library search and discovery:
1. Consider the purpose of retrieval systems as a search for families or contexts rather than for items;
2. Diminish the privileged status accorded to individual creative works, notably by Seymour Lubetzky ’34 and others, and redefine and redirect the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Resources (FRBR) model accordingly;
3. Unbundle the tight relationship between library catalog and library collection in order to harmonize theory with contemporary technological reality.