If any of you have input into PCC standards, please try to get a
revision to the PCC report on provider neutral records for remote
electronic monographs.
The suggested SMD "online resource" should be changed to "electronic
text"; "online resource" is too general; it could be a game, or a
program.
At least the report advises having a 300 with SMD, and paging in
curves, as opposed to AACR2's earlier idiotic omission of collation.
In addition, the omission of the "(Online)" qualifier should be
extended to all electronic series, or not implemented. The
inconsistency of having it apply only to provider neutral records is
silly.
As nearly as I can find (given the loss of Bernard's online textual
RDA index), RDA does not address these questions. I suspect the SMD
"online resource" comes from the RDA carrier type list suggested for
MARC21 337 (see below). But SMDs need not be these terms, e.g.,
"CD-ROM" would be the SMD, not "computer disc".
And while we are pressing for change, lets get RDA's media type
"computer" changed to ISBD Area 0's "electronic". Our clients would
think a computer is a piece of equipment, not a media type.
Thanks, Mac
__ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod (m...@slc.bc.ca)
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The report: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/bibco/PN-Final-Report.pdf
>From RDA/MARC21 337 Carrier types
Computer [i.e. Electronic] carriers
computer card
computer chip cartridge
computer disc
computer disc cartridge
computer tape cartridge
computer tape cassette
computer tape reel
online resource
