Sorry. should be a playing medium. On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Joan Wang <jw...@illinoisheartland.org>wrote:
> 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 > -- 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
