Bibliographic records in the book world: needs and capabilities. Report of a seminar organised by the BNB Research Fund, 27–28 November 1987

From time to time the BNB Research Fund arranges seminars to consider topics of significance to all sides of the book world. Attendance is carefully orchestrated to ensure that a wide range of opinion is represented and ample opportunity is provided for discussion. The topic of this seminar — the bibliographic record — is clearly important to everyone in the book world and with the increasing use and public availability of machine‐readable records was a most timely chance to review problems and practices.