Functional requirements and structure of the catalogue: the case of electronic resources. The revision of cataloguing rules. Authority control: the developement of FRANAR model. An example of complex authority file: BN-OPALE Plus. Some implementation examples: Rochester University Library; OCLC (WorldCat and FictionFinder); VTLS Virtua; AustLit; other examples. FRBR and copy cataloguing: VisualCat. (Material for AIB Veneto Seminar "FRBR, Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records". Venezia, Fondazione scientifica Querini Stampalia, 15/10/2004)