Is Playaway a storage medium (carrier) as well as a player medium? Probably a stupid question :)
Thanks, Joan Wang On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Kelley McGrath <kell...@uoregon.edu> wrote: > I guess I'm not sure that a Playaway is unmediated. It's just that the > mediation is transparent to the end user. The user doesn't have to put a > disc in; they just put in batteries and push play. Mediation for digital > content is likely to become increasingly transparent. In a sense everything > tangible that we catalog is an object, but a Playaway is presumably wanted > not as something to be looked at or touched, but as an integrated audio > carrier. > > If you could move content on and off the Playaway, would that change your > opinion? If a library circulates audiobooks on ipods or ebooks on a Kindle, > should those records also be for objects? This actually seems to be an > unsettled area. > > Kelley > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Robert Maxwell <robert_maxw...@byu.edu> > wrote: > > In my opinion a Playaway is unmediated. You don't need anything other > > than the object itself (and a source of electricity) to get the > > information, in contrast to, say, a CD, which you need to put in a > machine in order to use. > > Media type is "a categorization reflecting the general type of > > intermediation device required to view, play, run, etc., the content > > of a resource." No intermediation device is needed to hear/play the > > content of a Playaway. > > > > I find it analogous to a music box, which would also be unmediated. > > > > There is not a good unmediated carrier type (yet) for a Playaway. But > > as noted below, there isn't a good carrier type under the other > > categories either. > -- Zhonghong (Joan) Wang, Ph.D. Cataloger -- CMC Illinois Heartland Library System (Edwardsville Office) 6725 Goshen Road Edwardsville, IL 62025 618.656.3216x409 618.656.9401Fax
