Mac, you are not alone in your stewing!
>From OLAC-L, last week I posted that I was cataloging something called Wasted Away Display. (My apologies for the repetitive nature of this posting.) It is supposed to give people a graphic representation of how "getting wasted" can make people look, well, bad! Included: 1 mannequin with t-shirt 1 mannequin head (with a face on each side -- one wasted and one not! (Is this a tête-bêche?!) 1 wig 3 wig pins My initial question was the old GMD question … is it a [kit] or a [model]? After numerous off-list jokes about 2-faced people, the tête-bêche comment, and etc., I ended up choosing [model]. As with so many discussions today, we then turned to what Wasted Away will look like in RDA. As much as I dither over which GMD to choose in AACR2, I remain unconvinced that the 336, 337, and 338 fields more accurately and succinctly convey to users what the thing is that they should expect in our catalogs. So in AACR2, I will have: 245 00 Wasted away display ǂh [model]. 300 1 2-sided model (2 pieces) : ǂb plastic, col. ; ǂc 74 x 42 x 22 cm. (assembled) + ǂe 1 information tent. 520 2-sided mannequin (female torso with t-shirt and 2-sided removable head) with a wasted side and a non-wasted side. Depicts the physical effects of the party lifestyle (a life filled with late nights, cigarette smoke, alcohol, and high-fat foods). Mounted on a base. In RDA, I am assuming that we will have something like this: 245 00 Wasted away display. 300 1 2-sided model (2 pieces) : ǂb plastic, col. ; ǂc 74 x 42 x 22 cm. (assembled) + ǂe 1 information tent. 336 three-dimensional form ǂ2 rdacontent -or- 336 tactile three-dimensional form ǂ2 rdacontent [depending on whether or not you want to encourage the tactile aspects of the said mannequin] 337 unmediated ǂ2 rdamedia 338 object ǂ2 rdacarrier 520 2-sided mannequin (female torso with t-shirt and 2-sided removable head) with a wasted side and a non-wasted side. Depicts the physical effects of the party lifestyle (a life filled with late nights, cigarette smoke, alcohol, and high-fat foods). Mounted on a base. This is how I envision this thing cataloged in RDA, anyway. Is it just me? Do the 336, 337, and 338 fields more accurately and succinctly convey to users the Wasted Away mannequin that is being represented in the record? Is it immediately distinguished from, say, a book? In RDA, is it just as clear that it is a model than what we currently have as the 245 $h [GMD]? -- especially given how these things display in our local catalogs. In my opinion, the clarity is not there. I know that the 336-338 were never intended be displayed in our catalogs. Instead, we are expected to hope that our vendors will make the 336, 337, and 338 into some sort of intelligible icon that the patron will instantly know what that means. I ask you what kind of icon will accurately represent Wasted Away? (The icon that I currently get with my III system is something that looks like a crystal ball ... which perhaps is apropos ... it tells the user nothing.) To sum up, while I do get frustrated to the point of giddiness with our AACR2 GMDs, I am not holding my breath on RDA to resolve this issue of muddiness for our most special formats. And finally getting around to Mac’s point, it is unclear to me when we call it tactile or not in the 336. I questioned this when I cataloged a pig's lung and used it as an RDA example as well. That particular situation was used to demonstrate what human lungs looked like when they had been subjected to smoking. In that case, there was actually a cancerous tumor, as I recall. The ad showed the child with his finger on the tumor, so I decided that it should, indeed, be considered textile. But who is to say when it's textile and when it is not? 336 tactile three-dimensional form ǂ2 rdacontent 336 three-dimensional form ǂ2 rdacontent Julie Moore On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 5:03 PM, J. McRee Elrod <m...@slc.bc.ca> wrote: > Sunday afternoon I was at a delightful concert of 18th century French > music. During one legato movement, I admit my mind wondered (as it > sometimes does) to what the RDA media content term "tactile > three-dimensional form" might apply. > Julie Renee Moore > Catalog Librarian > California State University, Fresno > julie.renee.mo...@gmail.com > 559-278-5813 > > "In the end only kindness matters." -- Jewel > > >
