If we back up to 3.2.1.1. in the toolkit we find: Scope Media type▼<http://access.rdatoolkit.org/document.php?id=rdagloss&target=rdagloss-104#rdagloss-104> is a categorization reflecting the general type of intermediation device required to view, play, run, etc., the content of a resource.
Because the Playaway does not require an "intermediation device", I think one has to conclude that it is an "unmediated" "object." Awkward? Yes. Misleading to patrons? Maybe. Correct per the premiere resource of RDA standards? I think so...for now. --Pam On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Joan Wang <jw...@illinoisheartland.org>wrote: > 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 > -- *Pamela Withrow, MLIS* Cataloger Perma-Bound 217-291-1144
