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Playaways And Rda: Summary Of Relevant Sections From Rda Chapters 3, 6, And 7, Online Audiovisual Catalogers, Inc.
Playaways And Rda: Summary Of Relevant Sections From Rda Chapters 3, 6, And 7, Online Audiovisual Catalogers, Inc.
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Playways and RDA: Summary of Relevant Sections from RDA Chapters 3, 6, and 7.
Guide To Cataloging Playaway Devices Based On Aacr2 Chapters 6 And 9, Heidi Frank, Bill Anderson, Joe Bartl, Robert B. Freeborn, Jay Weitz
Guide To Cataloging Playaway Devices Based On Aacr2 Chapters 6 And 9, Heidi Frank, Bill Anderson, Joe Bartl, Robert B. Freeborn, Jay Weitz
OLAC Publications and Training Materials
Playaway devices were developed in 2005 by Findaway World LLC. (http://store.playawaydigital.com/). A Playaway is described as a “self-playing digital audio book” and is a device that contains a pre-loaded audio file in a proprietary format called ACELP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_Code_Excited_Linear_Prediction). The device requires one AAA battery and a set of earphones for playback and listening. Playaways contain almost exclusively spoken word recordings, but some musical content is available as well. According to the distributor, the focus of Playaways will remain audiobooks. Given the nature of a Playaway device, these materials include aspects of both sound recordings and electronic resources. They should be …