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Cataloging and Metadata

Minnesota State University, Mankato

Electronic resources

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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences

Electronic Resources, Robert L. Bothmann Oct 2010

Electronic Resources, Robert L. Bothmann

Library Services Publications

Emphasis will be on coding of electronic monographs and on the provider-neutral versus single-record approach.


Playaways And Rda: Summary Of Relevant Sections From Rda Chapters 3, 6, And 7, Online Audiovisual Catalogers, Inc. Jan 2010

Playaways And Rda: Summary Of Relevant Sections From Rda Chapters 3, 6, And 7, Online Audiovisual Catalogers, Inc.

OLAC Publications and Training Materials

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 Aug 2008

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 …