I'm not understanding what the difficulty is. Maybe it's how someone looks at a part of a resource? If the resource is primarily a book, and has a CD or DVD in a pocket, is that disc "accompanying material" or is it just a part of the resource? I myself wouldn't consider it an "accompanying manifestation", which has the implication of being a separate resource that is related. No, it's a *part of* the entire resource (singular). RDA 3.1.4 seems to take care of this very well. Whether you put the descriptions into a single MARC 300 field or multiple 300 fields depends on how a system is able to handle the data. Ideally, if you want ISBD output, the way a system would process a recording containing mulitple 300 fields would be to just put them all into one Area 5 statement, inserting a plus sign before each of the subsequent 300 fields.
Kevin M. Randall Principal Serials Cataloger Northwestern University Library k...@northwestern.edu<mailto:k...@northwestern.edu> (847) 491-2939 Proudly wearing the sensible shoes since 1978! From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of JOHN C ATTIG Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 9:19 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] RDA instructions for accompanying material? The LC/PCC Policy Statement for 3.1.4 is a combination of pragmatic guidance and instructions carried forward from AACR2; as Ian's initial analysis showed, this practice is not really justified by instructions in RDA. In RDA, accompanying material is treated as a relationship to a Related Manifestation (27.1), specifically an accompanying manifestation (J.4.5). As with all relationships, there are several ways of recording this one: an identifier (if you have a separate description you can link to), an authorized access point (if you can create an access point for the material), or a structured or unstructured description. My interpretation is that the ISBD Accompanying Material element is a structured description of the accompanying manifestation. Unfortunately, RDA contains no *instructions* for recording structured descriptions. This applies not only to accompanying material, but also to other common features such as contents notes. I proposed this issue as a project to CC:DA, and there is a Task Force working to draft appropriate instructions for recording both contents notes and accompanying materials statements (and perhaps other things); a preliminary report of this Task Force (which includes a strawman proposal for such instructions) is available at http://alcts.ala.org/ccdablog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/TFrelationships201301.pdf. Once such instructions have been added to RDA, then the MARC mappings will need to be revised and will be much more helpful. In the meantime, I would advise catalogers -- particularly PCC catalogers -- to follow the LC/PCC policy statement for 3.1.4. And, to respond to a later contribution to this thread, RDA allows any of the elements in Chapter 3 (the 33X and 34X fields) to be recorded to any component of the item, whether the primary component or accompanying material -- if the cataloger believes that this information is important. I would strongly urge that subfield $3 be used to identify the component being described. John Attig ALA Representative to the JSC Penn State University jx...@psu.edu<mailto:jx...@psu.edu> ________________________________ From: "Ian Fairclough" <ifairclough43...@yahoo.com<mailto:ifairclough43...@yahoo.com>> To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA<mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 7:00:16 AM Subject: Re: [RDA-L] RDA instructions for accompanying material? RDA-L readers, A correspondent has sent the following privately: "See RDA 3.1.4 and the associated LCPS for several options. If you choose to describe the accompanying material, LCPS says you can either use a $e in the 300 of the primary content, or use a second 300 altogether. You can also repeat the 336/337/338 fields for accompanying material, with an explanatory $3." Hopefully RDA Toolkit will shortly include links to 3.1.4 from AACR2 1.5E and RDA Appendix D.2.1 field 300e. Sincerely - Ian Ian Fairclough - George Mason University - ifairclough43...@yahoo.com<mailto:ifairclough43...@yahoo.com>
