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Visual Media

 

Videorecordings Documentation

Cheatsheet of videorecording cataloging (RDA and AACR2)

OLAC's Best Practices for Cataloging DVD-Video and Blu-ray Discs Using RDA and MARC21

OLAC's Best Practices for Video Language Coding (MARC 041)

Overview of videorecordings cataloging 

Video Recording Guidelines (RDA)

Common MARC Fields for Videorecordings

007 Physical description fixed field (videorecordings)

020 ISBN (International Standard Book Number)

024 Other Standard Identifier (Indicator 1_)

028 Publisher Number (Indicators 40 or 42)

040 Cataloging Source

041 Language Code

043 Geographic Area Code

046 Special coded dates

050 LC Call Number (050_4)

1XX Main entry (Personal name, Corporate body, Meeting name, or Uniform Title)

245 Title statement

246 Varying form of title

250 Edition statement

264 Production, publication, distribution, manufacture, and copyright notice

300 Physical description

336 Content type

337 Media type

338 Carrier type

344 Sound characteristics

346 Video characteristics

347 Digital file characteristics

380 Form of work

490/8XX Series statement and series added entry

500 Source of title proper (if other than from title frame)

511 Participant/Performer note

508 Creation/production credits note

506 1_ Restrictions on access note (for reformatted OR SPC materials)

518 Date/time and place of an event note (television programs, concerts, live performances, filmed lectures/speeches)

500 Original version note

534 Reformatted note (use for locally reformatted note)

500 Accompanying material note (if contents exceed 10 pages)

500 Addiitonal notes

500 Special Features note

521 8_ Target audience (Ratings) note

520 Summary

505 Contents note

540 Terms governing use and reproduction note

586 Awards note 

500 Special equipment/compatibility note (e.g. Aspect ratios and format as previously transcribed in MARC 345)

546 Language note

501 Issued with note

6XX fields

650 _0 or 651 _0 Subject headings

655 _7 Genre Headings

7XX Added entries

775 (for remakes)

776 (for reproductions)

 

 

3-D videodiscs (see also Appendix M)

Accompanying materials for media (see also Appendix M)

Accompanying 3-D Objects and realia for media

Audio recordings (nonmusical)

CD-ROMs/DVD-ROMs/Hypertexts/Interactive Multimedia/Computer disks

Collections/Box sets/Multiple features on one disc (DVDs, Blu-rays)

DVDs converted locally from obsolete or PAL formats

Dubbed versions (see also Appendix O)

Film Reels

Movies (40 min. or more)

Playaways

Short films (less than 40 min.)

Streaming Videos

Television programs (see also Appendix L)

VCD Cataloging (Video Compact Disc)

           VHS

           Video Games

Guidelines for Withdrawals

 

Macros for Media Cataloging

Music Library requests

Public Performance Rights note

 

Training materials

 

 

Books with media [full documentation]

Books with media cheat sheet

Links to procedures on cataloging print monographs accompanied by sound recordings, video recordings, or other media.

 

Appendices to RDA Videorecording Guidelines

ClassWeb

Genre Headings (Controlled Vocabularies)

          1) Library Of Congress Genre/Form Terms For Library And Archival Materials LCGFT Moving Image Genre-Form Terms

          2) LCSH topical headings usable as genre headings (Hahn Library)

           

Media Cataloging Updates (Nov. 2018)

RDA Toolkit