Media Type

• Core 3.2: LCPCCCore
• Scope 3.2.1.1
• Source 3.2.1.2: EPbRI; Any
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  • this data identifies what type of player or equipment is needed so that you can “view, play, run, etc., the content of a resource”; a closed list of terms is used to identify whether the media device needed to access the content of the resource is an audio player or a video player or a computer, etc.
• Data entry 3.2.1.3: Recorded from a vocabulary (Closed)
  
  • use terms from RDA Term List; or
    
  • use terms and/or codes from MARC Term and Code List for RDA Media Types
• Function Ch. 3: Carr
• Entity: Manifestation

MARC-Bib: 337a; 337b (Media type term)

Editing

• Check the 'Source' instruction to be sure that you are looking at the correct source(s) of information on the resource
• If data on the resource and data as the element in the record are:
  • PoR/PaE–check the Data Entry instructions:
    • data for this element must be Recorded from a vocabulary (Closed): make sure the term:
      
      • is appropriate for the resource
        
      • is given exactly from the official list of terms for the element, except for capitalization (check for typos)
  • PoR/AaE–check the Core instructions:
    • data for this element is LCPCCCore:
      
      • if the data has been given as a wrong element, move it to the correct element
        
      • if you are following LC-PCC policy, add the data for this element
        
      • if you are not following LC-PCC policy, add the data if you feel it might be useful–remember the principles of differentiation and sufficiency
  • AoR/PaE–check the Source instructions again:
    • since the Source for this element is or includes 'Any', accept the data, but only if it seems applicable
  • AoR/AaE–go to the next element:
    • but be sure to check the resource carefully, if the data for the element is Core, or if the data is important for differentiating the resource from a similar resource
• Check below, for any useful Notes

Editing Notes:

• add applicable media type terms if appropriate and missing (e.g., add 'stereographic' for books containing photographs best viewed through a stereographic viewer)

Hybrid AACR:

MARC:

• if using codes, take them from the MARC Term and Code List for RDA Media Types
• check that the source code ($2rdamedia) is present and correct
• for a book, always add 'unmediated': 337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
  • check that the term ($aunmediated) is present and correct
  • check that the code ($bn) is correct, if it is present

Matching

General element information