Yes, sorry, of course these are not AACR2 terms, but we do use them and have for years. In fact, they were carefully chosen before I got here. They convey exactly what is needed to staff. As I said in my earlier post, III's field 30 MAT TYPE generates icons which are for patrons using the public display.
The 245|h[gmd] is more for staff who see the Millennium interface while performing searches. However, the 245 also appears in the OPAC as an added piece of information for patrons. I did not explain all this earlier out of respect for the time of list readers. I apologize if there was confusion. Kathleen F. Lamantia, MLIS Technical Services Librarian Stark County District Library 715 Market Avenue North Canton, OH 44702 330-458-2723 klaman...@starklibrary.org Inspiring Ideas ∙ Enriching Lives ∙ Creating Community -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Rochkind [mailto:rochk...@jhu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 3:34 PM To: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access Cc: Kathleen Lamantia Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Additional work required by RDA 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 > Inspiring Ideas ∙ Enriching Lives ∙ Creating Community > > > > -----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 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and > Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Kevin M > Randall > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 1:39 PM > To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA > 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 > > Proudly wearing the sensible shoes since 1978! >
