Dear All, Mac and I have been batting this issue back and forth for awhile now on the OLAC list. These are often "kits" (in layman's terms) with pieces that you put together ... and the point is for the children to learn something with most of them. (We buy tons of these "kits" for my Teacher Resource Center that has lots of curriculum materials with educational manipulatives.) I often find myself in a grey area, as I have tried to choose a GMD for these materials, none of them fitting quite perfectly.
I am hoping that RDA will somehow be make these "kits" better to discern for both the cataloger and the user. The AACR2 1.1C1 terms that we have available for GMDs (from List 2) for these materials include: *Kit* 1. An item containing *two or more categories of material, no one of which is identifiable as the predominant constituent of the item* [emphasis mine]; also designated “multimedia item<http://desktop.loc.gov/template.htm?view=document&doc_action=setdoc&doc_keytype=foliodestination&doc_key=Aacr2MultimediaSPACEitemSLASHglossary&hash=MultimediaSPACEitemSLASHglossary>” (q.v.). 2. A single-medium package of textual material (e.g., a “press kit,” a set of printed test materials, an assemblage of printed materials published under the name “Jackdaw”). See also Activity card<http://desktop.loc.gov/template.htm?view=document&doc_action=setdoc&doc_keytype=foliodestination&doc_key=Aacr2ActivitySPACEcardSLASHglossary&hash=ActivitySPACEcardSLASHglossary>, Game<http://desktop.loc.gov/template.htm?view=document&doc_action=setdoc&doc_keytype=foliodestination&doc_key=Aacr2GameSLASHglossary&hash=GameSLASHglossary> . *Game* An item or set of materials designed for play according to prescribed or implicit rules and intended for recreation or instruction. See also Activity card<http://desktop.loc.gov/template.htm?view=document&doc_action=setdoc&doc_keytype=foliodestination&doc_key=Aacr2ActivitySPACEcardSLASHglossary&hash=ActivitySPACEcardSLASHglossary>, Kit<http://desktop.loc.gov/template.htm?view=document&doc_action=setdoc&doc_keytype=foliodestination&doc_key=Aacr2KitSLASHglossary&hash=KitSLASHglossary>, Toy<http://desktop.loc.gov/template.htm?view=document&doc_action=setdoc&doc_keytype=foliodestination&doc_key=Aacr2ToySLASHglossary&hash=ToySLASHglossary> . *Toy* An object designed for imaginative play or one from which to derive amusement. See also Game<http://desktop.loc.gov/template.htm?view=document&doc_action=setdoc&doc_keytype=foliodestination&doc_key=Aacr2GameSLASHglossary&hash=GameSLASHglossary>, Model<http://desktop.loc.gov/template.htm?view=document&doc_action=setdoc&doc_keytype=foliodestination&doc_key=Aacr2ModelSLASHglossary&hash=ModelSLASHglossary>, Realia<http://desktop.loc.gov/template.htm?view=document&doc_action=setdoc&doc_keytype=foliodestination&doc_key=Aacr2RealiaSLASHglossary&hash=RealiaSLASHglossary> . * * *Model* A three-dimensional representation of a real thing. See also Toy<http://desktop.loc.gov/template.htm?view=document&doc_action=setdoc&doc_keytype=foliodestination&doc_key=Aacr2ToySLASHglossary&hash=ToySLASHglossary> . *Realia* An artefact or a naturally occurring entity, as opposed to a replica. See also Object<http://desktop.loc.gov/template.htm?view=document&doc_action=setdoc&doc_keytype=foliodestination&doc_key=Aacr2ObjectSLASHglossary&hash=ObjectSLASHglossary>, Toy<http://desktop.loc.gov/template.htm?view=document&doc_action=setdoc&doc_keytype=foliodestination&doc_key=Aacr2ToySLASHglossary&hash=ToySLASHglossary> . It might help to illustrate my challenges with some of the actual materials that I have cataloged over the months ... most of these materials require assembly. With some of them, it is in the assembling that the learning takes place. 1. Title: Basic electricity & electronics educational program : model SC-100R, Snap Circuits. (I ended up using [realia].) http://www.amazon.com/Elementary-Circuits-Model-SC-100R-experiments/dp/B0017Y7IDA/ref=sr_1_1?s=industrial&ie=UTF8&qid=1315515644&sr=1-1 2. Title: K'Nex education.Middle school math. (I ended up using [realia].) http://www.amazon.com/KNEX-Education-Middle-School-Math/dp/B003MGJTJW/ref=sr_1_1?s=industrial&ie=UTF8&qid=1315515770&sr=1-1 3. Title: Static electricity supply set. (I ended up using [realia].) http://www.delta-education.com/productdetail.aspx?Collection=N&prodID=1803&menuID= 4. Title: Motorized solar system and planetarium. (I ended up using [model] on this one.) http://www.educationalinsights.com/product/teachers/theme/space+--38-+weather/solar+system/geosafari-reg-+motorized+solar+system.do?search=basic&keyword=motorized+solar+system&sortby=bestSellers&page=1&; 5. Title: Planet walk (I ended up using [model] for this as well. Can be set up on a football field.) http://www.etacuisenaire.com/catalog/product?deptId=&prodId=77662&q=planet+walk 6. Title: Giant magnetic solar system (I ended up cataloging this as a [picture] -- rather hesitantly because the magnets do have a 3rd dimension to them.) http://www.gwschoolcatalog.com/giant_magnetic_solar_system_set_of_12-p-1539575.html 7. Title: Inertia crash dummies (I ended up cataloging this just today as [realia].) I have on my desk a box of wooden boards, stoppers, bottle caps, ping-pong balls, blocks of wood (for the cars), wheel axels, wheels. Somehow, the user is supposed to assemble these things, in order to have cars (with dummies -- the ping pong balls) and barriers. The kit is supposed to teach students about the law of inertia. Students are to gather data and graph it, as well -- with other the additional materials needed: knife, markers, glue, stopwatches, meter sticks, masking tape. http://sciencekit.com/inertia-crash-dummies-teacher-developed,-classroom-tested/p/IG0046731/ 8. A rather notorious theoretical OLAC-L question that I posed on a Friday afternoon awhile back was: If I had a tin of buttons (I am thinking of my grandma's old tin of a variety of buttons), would this be considered [realia] since there is only one *category* of material? Or would it be considered a [kit] since there is more than one type of button in the box? ... or if you added other sewing supplies such as a tape measure, pin cushion, pins, and needles, then does it become a kit? At any rate, you get the picture. These types of materials have been difficult at best to nail down with the terms from List 2 in AACR2 1.1C1. Will there be more clarity in RDA? Best wishes, Julie On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:54 PM, J. McRee Elrod <m...@slc.bc.ca> wrote: > I've just been told that the expansion of the meaning of "score" was > approved by JSC for AACR2, but never distributed. > > Has anything been done about expanding the AACR2 meaning of "kit"? > > Increasingly in education there are kits with bits and pieces to put > together or manipulted to demonstrate this or that. Cataloguers have > been using the GMD "realia", but IMNSHO "reallia" would a full size > crash dummy, or the solar system itself, not a kit for teaching about > them. > > The bits and pieces are often made of less than three materials, which > excludes them for being "kits", some cataloguers say, and the manual > is not counted as another genre. > > > __ __ J. 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