Ian Fairclough <ifairclough43...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Kevin Randall said "I'm not understanding what the difficulty is." The > difficulty was a couple of missing links in RDA Toolkit. I was not > succeeding in getting to the right part of RDA (and in this case, LC PCC > PS), namely 3.1.4. The redirects from AACR2 1.5E and from RDA Appendix > D.2.1 both take you to 27.1.1.3. >
You'll find in the third paragraph under 3.1.4 that you're going right back to 27.1 for accompanying material: "For instructions on recording information relating to the carrier for accompanying material, see 27.1." RDA 3.1.4 has a closer relationship to AACR2 1.10C2 (e.g., kits). Note that when invoking the RDA instructions--at least by my reading and in its current pre-worded state--you select only one of the three options for describing the carriers of the whole resource. This, instead of mixing and matching, e.g., full details for one part of the resource (300 $a), just bare-bones for the other (300 $e). I've always read RDA's opaque accompanying material instructions with ISBD colored glasses. Accompanying material can be described either with a brief material description in the 300 $e, or in a note, or a combination of the two; putting aside cataloging these separately, I usually prefer the first option. (I'm even tempted to do so for sound recordings.) Putting it there is more in the user's face. With that, I double back to RDA chapters 3 and 7 to fill out that slot. In this respect and in others too, I view RDA providing a big picture, principle-based approach over holding my hand--a real pain in the butt when trying to learn this thing, frankly. I guess that's what community-specific best practices are for. -- Mark K. Ehlert Minitex <http://www.minitex.umn.edu/>
