My concern is that if you have 336 spoken word $2 rdacontent 337 audio $2 rdamedia 338 other $2 rda carrier
How do they know that that this thing is a Playaway, unless you say it's a Playaway in the 300? And for matching, you must have consistency. Even for human beings, we need consistency. Even for human beings looking at the following list of various possible 300s, would everyone understand that what they are talking about is a Playaway? (No!) 1 sound media player 1 pre-recorded MP3 player 1 pre-recorded digital audio player 1 Playaway 1 audio media player 1 digital media player Once LC says whatever it is going to say, we are in desperate need for the various cataloging constituencies to write guidelines (their interpretations) of exactly how materials such as these are to be consistently cataloged. This piece really cannot be left up to cataloger's judgment, because that leaves the field open to many different answers. Julie On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Mark Ehlert <ehler...@umn.edu> wrote: > Jonathan Rochkind <rochk...@jhu.edu> wrote: > > One idea is if perhaps the matching algorithm could use the new 3xx > fields > > instead of the 300 "type of unit" free text. Of course, that relies on > the > > new 3xx fields using only controlled terms, which I'm not sure is the > case > > (but should be!). > > Assuming 3xx is limited to the 336-338, then the CMC types are already > set up as controlled terms. Hence the prescribed "other" and > "unspecified" terms provided for all three lists. > > -- > 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/> > -- 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
