This article discusses the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), a plan that is quickly gaining the support of library organizations around the globe. The FRBR Study Group was appointed by International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) and issued its final report in 1998. The report redefines the basic unit of cataloging. In current practice, the MARC record represents a physical bibliographic entity. In contrast, FRBR recommends cataloging over four primary levels of bibliographic existence (or entities), and it parses out the elements of today's records across them. These four primary entities are: Works; Expressions; Manifestations; and Items. Although FRBR is a complex theoretical model, library media specialists will recognize the basic components of a catalog record (author, title, and subject) in its three entity groups.