While we're waiting for this gap to be filled in the RDA toolkit, at our library we have been creating a kind of hybrid text/still image record for comic book/graphic novels and books consisting of only illustrated plates. We use the RDA Extent terms for text in the 300 field and add "chiefly illustrations" in the subfield b, and we add two 336 content terms, "still image" and "text".
300 |a ix, 45 pages : |b chiefly illustrations ; |c 24 cm 336 |a still image |2 rdacontent 336 |a text |2 rdacontent 337 |a unmediated |2 rdamedia 338 |a volume |2 rdacarrier But I wonder if the following two extent descriptions might be better at showing the primary content is pictorial: A. 300 |a ix, 45 pages of color images ; |c 24 cm B. 300 |a 1 volume (ix, 45 pages of color images) ; |c 24 cm The following are the closest RDA instructions I could find relating to books of primarily pictorial material in the RDA toolkit: --------------------------- >From 3.4.4.Extent of still images: "3.4.4.5. Albums, Portfolios, Etc. For a resource consisting of one or more albums, portfolios, cases, etc., containing drawings, prints, photographs, etc., record the extent by giving the number of units and an appropriate term for the type of unit. EXAMPLE 1 portfolio 2 sketchbooks Optional Addition Specify the number of drawings, etc., and use one or more appropriate terms from the list at 3.4.4.2<http://access.rdatoolkit.org/document.php?id=rdachp3&target=rda3-2610#rda3-2610>. Record this information in parentheses following the term for the container. EXAMPLE 1 portfolio (40 prints)" ------------------------------------------ >From that, I suppose I could add another possibility: C. 300 |a 1 comic book (ix, 45 pages) : |b color ; |c 24 cm Does anyone know if there are plans to clear this up in the RDA toolkit sometime, preferably soon? Melanie Shaw Merrill-Cazier Library Utah State University Logan, Utah 84322-3000 melanie.s...@usu.edu On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 6:47 PM, donna Bair-Mundy <don...@hawaii.edu> wrote: > Aloha, > Having searched the archives I found several message on this topic but > no consensus, as far as I could tell. > > In AACR2 in the 300 $b subfield we recorded the fact that a book > consisted of all illustrations. RDA has no corresponding rule. > > Looking at various RDA cataloging policy statements at a number of > institutions available online I see "all illustrations" recorded in 300 $b. > > In April 2012 the PCC SCT RDA Records Task Group put out a .pdf file > with sample RDA-consistent records. I see a number of records with the > wording "all illustrations" in 300 $b. > > On Autocat some people have said that 300 $b should have only > "illustrations" and that a note would be included to say that the book > consists solely of illustrations. > > Tomorrow I plan to talk about illustrative matter in class. One of the > books I have been using for years is _Gods man : a novel in woodcuts_ by > Lynd Ward. > > How would the participants on this list handle this? > > Are there any plans to clarify this in an upcoming update of RDA? > > > > > > Have a safe and joyful day, > > donna Bair-Mundy, Ph.D. > Instructor, LIS Program > Information & Computer Sci. Dept. > Hamilton Library, Room 003-B > 2550 McCarthy Mall > University of Hawai`i at Manoa > Honolulu, HI 96822 > Voice: 808-956-9518 Fax: 808-956-5835 > <don...@hawaii.edu> >
