A few explanations about BYU's RDA records for Playaways. In the 300 field we used "1 sound media player ...", the same as had been used previously in AACR2. I see the non-BYU RDA records for Playaways used "1 audio media player ..." which is probably more in the spirit of RDA, which changed most of the "sound" SMDs to "audio". There isn't actually a carrier type to use in 300 for any kind of "media player."
As for the media and carrier types, we concluded that a Playaway is unmediated, since it requires nothing beyond itself to use: unmediated = "media used to store content designed to be perceived directly through one or more of the human senses without the aid of an intermediating device." The Playaway player (taken as a whole including the attached earbuds) is an object used to store content designed to be perceived directly through the human ear-unlike a CD or a cassette you don't have to put a Playaway into any other machine to access the information. So we used "unmediated" as the media type. That left us with "object" as the only choice for carrier type, since the carrier types are supposed to correspond to the media types. If we could have chosen from any of the carrier types, without being restricted to the unmediated ones, I would have chosen "audio cartridge" to describe the carrier for a Playaway. If it had been available as an unmediated carrier type, "media player" would have been a good choice, but it isn't currently in the list. A wind-up music box is another example of an unmediated device that stores audio information. Bob Robert L. Maxwell Head, Special Collections and Formats Catalog Dept. 6728 Harold B. Lee Library Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602 (801)422-5568 -----Original Message----- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Mark Ehlert Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 11:55 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging playaways Julie Moore <julie.renee.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > As long as we are looking at cataloging kits using RDA, I am also wondering > if people have cataloged playaways using RDA? (Is there a way to search > specifically for playaways with RDA records on OCLC?) dx:rda and kw:playaway? brought up a few records. It looks like Brigham Young created some for the test, though you'll have to dig down to their institution record to view what they did (Cataloging > Show > All Institution Records). -- Mark K. Ehlert Minitex Coordinator University of Minnesota Bibliographic & Technical 15 Andersen Library Services (BATS) Unit 222 21st Avenue South Phone: 612-624-0805 Minneapolis, MN 55455-0439 <http://www.minitex.umn.edu/>
