EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW
ABOUT AV CATALOGING --
PLEASE ASK!
Nancy B. Olson
The traditional OLAC question-and-answer session was held during ALA in Philadelphia on January 25, 2003. Panelists were Jay Weitz, Steve Miller, Verna Urbanski, Rob Freeborn and John Attig, with moderator Meredith Horan.
Streaming video
The first question: Is streaming video a video or an electronic resource? The short answer was "Yes."
Jay Weitz explained that he had taught cataloging of streaming video in the last several video workshops he has presented, and that he and I [Nancy Olson] had worked out the cataloging together about two years ago. [See the following article for concise guidelines.]
Cataloging is to be done on the video workform (type "g") with an 006 and 007 added for the electronic resource aspects. Field 538 is provided to indicate "Streaming video" and to include details about length, sound, color, etc. A second field 538 would give any necessary system requirements, such as the type of software needed to access the video.
The questioner went on to explain that a school district had the same title in VHS and in streaming video and wondered if they could use one record. Jay and John agreed that, in a shared environment (such as OCLC) these definitely called for separate records, but in a local system, one could treat the streaming video as a copy of the VHS.
Animated images
The second questioner has files that are animated images, and wanted to know what to call them for cataloging. Someone said these were an electronic version of the old "flip pages" that show movement.
This led to some discussion as to what to do with these. John said these were moving images, delivered electronically, so would be done on the type "g" workform with 006 for electronic resources. He did elaborate a bit on the fact that they are graphic images (still images), but designed to show movement so are cataloged as moving images.
This led to an extensive discussion of GMDs. The item is an electronic resource, so that is the GMD that must be used (and this applies to the streaming video as well, as someone pointed out).
There was more discussion about the complications of such material and the limitations of the rules and of the GMDs.
Legos, etc.
A facetious question about Lego sets that are added to, and are these integrating resources, led to a serious discussion about materials that can be one thing or another, depending on …
A Lego set, as purchased, is a toy within rules of AACR2. However, one may create original works of art using Legos. A collection of Legos that grows over time is not really an integrating resource.
Someone brought up the example of a can of Campbell’s soup which is realia, but the painting of a can of Campbell’s soup, by Andy Warhol, an exact reproduction of the can itself, is an art original (and reproductions of the painting are art reproductions).
LCRI 1.11A
Someone asked about video and streaming video and the LCRI for 1.11A, reproductions of works. This turned into a discussion of reproductions and multiple versions and the problems of dealing with such materials. There was no clear question, and there is no clear answer, but there seemed to be agreement that a streaming video is not a reproduction of a video within the meaning of LCRI 1.11A, nor is a DVD necessarily a reproduction of a VHS.
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