There is an alternative instruction for Carrier Type (RDA 3.3) where only the carrier type for the predominant part or most substantial parts of the resource need be recorded. But the main instruction is to "record as many terms as are applicable to the resource being described."
If a different carrier type is accounted for in 300 $e or additional 300's, I would apply a corresponding 338 carrier type value. Normally, there should also be corresponding 006/007 values for accompanying material, but these can cause problems in the system I use. The system picks out fixed field values to generate icons, and it gets confused when there are multiple 006 and 007 fields to choose from. There is a very strong bias in MARC (with the Leader and 008 fields, and 300$a for example) to declaring a primary material. Some MARC implementations require deleting values for accompanying materials to work properly. The direction in RDA seems more agnostic when confronted with multiple carriers (except for the alternative option in RDA 3.3 where predominant carrier can be picked). The way things seem to shaping up is to continue to use MARC conventions to pick a predominant part, but to use 336/337/338 to capture the range of characteristics in the resource. Longer term I would like to see a new encoding structure that offers more flexibility in establishing a composite icons (or set of icons) that represent a resource (is it a book with a CD inside, or is it a booklet and a CD together in a bag?), as well as a grouping of related carrier details as found in a 007 field to draw upon to create more precise icons (is it a videodisc, or more pertinently a Blu-Ray disc?). Thomas Brenndorfer Guelph Public Library ________________________________ From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Julie Moore [julie.renee.mo...@gmail.com] Sent: October-15-12 7:45 PM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] accompanying material Do you recommend recording the 336, 337, and 338 of the accompanying material as well as those fields for the main work? Julie On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Julie Moore <julie.renee.mo...@gmail.com<mailto:julie.renee.mo...@gmail.com>> wrote: For many of the "special formats" materials that I catalog, there is often "accompanying material" -- a CD-ROM, a DVD, a guide, a cassette, etc. The last I looked, there was no new way of dealing with accompanying material, and RDA had not spoken to it. So are we supposed to just keep adding these accompanying materials pieces as a 300 $e? Thanks, Julie Moore -- Julie Renee Moore Catalog Librarian California State University, Fresno julie.renee.mo...@gmail.com<mailto:julie.renee.mo...@gmail.com> 559-278-5813<tel:559-278-5813> Proudly wearing the sensible shoes since 1985! -- Julie Renee Moore Catalog Librarian California State University, Fresno julie.renee.mo...@gmail.com<mailto:julie.renee.mo...@gmail.com> 559-278-5813 Proudly wearing the sensible shoes since 1985!
