Dear Ed, Thank you for your straight answer ... (which I think is really 3 if-then answers.)
I am aware of the 2008 OLAC Playaway Cataloging Joint Task Force recommendations, but I take that with a grain of salt since RDA was not actually published yet. It was the best that they could come up with at the time, but a lot has happened with RDA since then. So I think that this document is rather dated, as far as RDA life is concerned. I think that this example illustrates that we are not quite there yet with RDA. I do not think that we've gotten to a "final answer" just yet on this ... and many other issues. Thanks kindly for your thoughtful response. Best wishes, Julie On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Ed Jones <ejo...@nu.edu> wrote: > Julie, > > > > If you insist on a straight answer… > > > > If my library promoted them as Playaways and users knew them as Playaways, > I would probably argue for calling them Playaways in the physical > description. (As they say, What you do in the local catalog stays in the > local catalog.) In an ideal world, where records carried more information in > coded form, I would have a coded value in the record rather than a literal > (something analogous to ONIX’s “AK”) and would leave it up to the local > library what literal they wanted to have display in their catalog. In a > shared catalog like OCLC, I would probably follow standard practice to the > extent it exists. In 2008 the Playaway Cataloging Joint Task Force—yes, > there was such a thing—recommended “1 sound media player” so I would > probably go with that. > http://www.olacinc.org/drupal/capc_files/playawaysPDF.pdf > > > > Ed > > > > *From:* Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access > [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] *On Behalf Of *Julie Moore > *Sent:* Thursday, April 21, 2011 5:07 PM > > *To:* RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA > *Subject:* Re: [RDA-L] Cataloging playaways > > > > Ed, > > Are you saying that you would call it a: > > 300 1 pre-recorded MP3 player ? > > Just curious! > > Thanks, > Julie > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Ed Jones <ejo...@nu.edu> wrote: > > FWIW, ONIX calls it a "pre-recorded MP3 player", which also seems to be the > name used in the marketplace, if a Google search I just did is any > indication (1.5 million results as a quoted string). The new "product form" > was added to ONIX in early 2007. The RDA ONIX framework predates this > (unless there is a newer version than version 1.0). > > http://www.onixtools.de/downloads/ONIX_Code_Lists_Issue_7_Changes.pdf > > Ed Jones > > -- > -- > Julie Renee Moore Catalog Librarian California State University, Fresno julie.renee.mo...@gmail.com 559-278-5813 "There is more to life than simply increasing its speed." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
