You have "DVD", "Compact Disc" and "Comic Book" as GMD's in 245$h?
This is curious to me, and I wonder what your data source is for records
with these GMD's. None of those are on the 'standard' list of GMDs, and
you won't generally find any of those used as GMD's on MARC from OCLC or
LC.
The actual standard GMD's are much less useful for patrons in most
environments then the ones you use as examples, and indeed the
not-so-useful nature of the standard GMD's most of us have is, in my
impression, part of what motivated trying to come up with a more
reasonable and flexible system for recording form/format data, which was
actually a multi-year (10? more?) process/discussion, one product of
which is the RDA 3xx vocabularies.
On 10/23/2012 2:36 PM, Kathleen Lamantia wrote:
Agreed, and thank you for the suggestion.
But, back to the original question - why do the extra work?
Our current gmds are very clear and succinct: dvd, compact disc, comic book; book on cd,
etc. Why make people try to figure out a combination of 3 terms when one simple clear
statement is already in place and tells them what they need? "People" in this
case being staff who are trying to get items to patrons.
Kathleen F. Lamantia, MLIS
Technical Services Librarian
Stark County District Library
715 Market Avenue North
Canton, OH 44702
330-458-2723
klaman...@starklibrary.org
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-----Original Message-----
From: Arakawa, Steven [mailto:steven.arak...@yale.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 2:31 PM
To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA
Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Additional work required by RDA
Kevin, you're right--thanks for pointing this out. The example would have been
helped with an additional 3xx for the primary content/media/carrier type.
However, I still think the fields themselves could be translated into more
comprehensible terms in the OPAC, especially if labels were assigned.
Steven Arakawa
Catalog Librarian for Training & Documentation Catalog & Metadata Services,
SML, Yale University P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240
(203)432-8286 steven.arak...@yale.edu
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[mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Kevin M Randall
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 1:39 PM
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Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Additional work required by RDA
Steven Arakawa wrote:
Although the $a terms may be incomprehensible to the public, locally
you could selectively add $3 to 338 with more appropriate carrier
terms and include the more specific terms in the display; you would
have more control over the terminology that best suits your user
community. The 338
$3 carrier term could be keyword indexed and could be set to display
with the brief title and/or as part of a labeled, full record display
with the $3 terms for content and media type.
33X subfield $3 is for "Materials specified", meaning the portion of the
resource to which the field applies. The example:
338 ## $a sheet $2 rdacarrier $3 liner notes
means that for the resource being described, the carrier type term "sheet"
applies to the liner notes, not to the audiodisc or videodisc that it accompanies.
Subfield $3 is not for an alternative term to the one given in $a. The
definition of subfield $3 for the 33X fields parallels the definition in other
fields such as 490.
Kevin M. Randall
Principal Serials Cataloger
Northwestern University Library
k...@northwestern.edu
(847) 491-2939
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