Kelley said: >If you could pick any term or short phrase in the world to convey what this >is to library users would you really pick kit? What alternative would you suggest?
If it has various parts to be manipulated, no more understandable term occurs to me. I suspect "kit" conveys more meaning than "realia" to most. To me, the root word "real" implies that something with that GMD must be the actual object, be it a rock. a telephone, a shrunken head; not a set of sample rocks with material for identification, a toy telephone, or a model with wig and pins. What word would you substitute for "kit"? As for multiple content terms replacing the need for a comprehensive term in RDA, I don't think so. Apart from the problems such a list would create in display, and for patron comprehension, a single short term is needed for the collective item being described and loaned, both as carrier term and unit name, with parts detailed in a contents note. __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod (m...@slc.bc.ca) {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/ ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________