Julie,
If you want to pursue this as a revision to RDA, you can submit a
revision proposal through CC:DA. Proposals may be forwarded to CC:DA
through any voting member or through any of the groups represented on
CC:DA. OLAC is one of the groups represented and would be a good fit
for this topic -- Kelley McGrath is the OLAC liaison.
The guidelines for submitting a revision proposal are currently being
revised; I will send you a copy of the interim guidelines.
Best,
Lori Robare
Chair, CC:DA
lrob...@uoregon.edu
On 9/9/2011 9:41 AM, Julie Moore wrote:
Were RDA to adopt the term "kit" to its list of unmediated carrier
types in 3.3.1.3, and were they to define it with not only the AACR2
verbiage but to also add "a box of stuff" in more eloquent terms. I
looked up "kit" in Mirriam-Webster online, and found: /"(3)/ *:* a set
of parts to be assembled or worked up <a model-airplane /kit/> /(4)/
*:* a packaged collection of related material <a convention /kit/>"
To make it more cataloger-friendly, I'd suggest verbiage such as this:
3. a set of parts to be assembled intended for play or education
(e.g., Tinker Toys, Snap Circuits, K'Nex, Static Electricity Supply
Set) 4. a set of parts to be assembled into a model (pieces to create
a model car or a model solar system) 5. a packaged collection of
related material (e.g., a set of fossils).
which would make the definition look rather like this:
Kit
1. An item containing two or more categories of material, no one of
which is identifiable as the predominant constituent of the item; 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”). 3. a set of parts to be
assembled intended for play or education (e.g., Tinker Toys, Snap
Circuits, K'Nex, Static Electricity Supply Set) 4. a set of parts to
be assembled into a model (pieces to create a model of the solar
system). 5. a packaged collection of related material (e.g., a set of
fossils).
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>.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kit
Were RDA to adopt the term "kit" in such a manner, /*then -- and only
then */-- would I embrace the term "kit" in my cataloging of such
materials.
I would actually welcome and embrace this change. Because I catalog
these types of things on a daily basis, it has always been a major
challenge for me.
Thanks for your consideration.
Best wishes,
Julie
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 6:33 PM, J. McRee Elrod <m...@slc.bc.ca
<mailto:m...@slc.bc.ca>> wrote:
Julie said:
>In RDA, I am not sure what I would do with it!
Julie raises a very valid concern. The loss of GMD is serious. Also,
the word "object" no more conveys the nature of a kit resource than
"realia".
For those clients who wish to have something in the GMD position, we
plan to export [338 : 336] as 245$h, e.g., [online resource : text]
for an e-book.
We will add "kit" to unmediated media. Granted some items in some
kits require "mediation", but the media type placement of the term
will not be displayed. We will not export 337 media type. Not only
would few understand "unmediated", but I know of no library patron who
considers their Kobo or Kindle to be a "computer" (the media type term
RDA uses for what most of us consider to be "electronic" media, and
for which ISBD Area 0 substituted "electronic").
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