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STREAMING VIDEO
by Nancy B. Olson


Streaming video is video available through the Internet. Because it is available through remote access, each streaming video title is cataloged as an electronic resource. Because it is video, the video workform is used. Rules from AACR2 Chapters 7 and 9 are used together.

The type "g" workform is used, with form of item coded "s" for electronic. The other fixed field/008 values are the usual ones for videos.

The MARC 21 field 007 for video is used, as are fields 006 and 007 for electronic resources.

The GMD in field 245 is $h [electronic resource]

Field 300 is not used, as these items are remote access electronic resources.

The first note (nature and scope note) would be:

500 Streaming video (length : sound characteristics, color characteristics).
A note for system requirements tells what program is needed to access the streaming video title being cataloged, and lists any other system requirement.

538 System requirements: Name of special software; any other requirements.
The required mode-of-access note:

538 Mode of access: World Wide Web [or whatever needed].
You also need the required note for source of title, and when the title was viewed:

500 Title from header on screen (viewed Nov. 28, 2002).
All the normal video notes are used as needed.

Field 856 is added for the URL for the title.

Jay Weitz and I worked out these guidelines when he was preparing to give a workshop at the MOUG meeting in February 2002. We have expanded them a number of times as questions arose. He handed out a great example at his workshop at the OLAC Conference in St. Paul that you may be able to access through the "conferences" link of the OLAC Website <http://www.olacinc.org/>.

An example of a record for streaming video

Type: g     ELvl: I     Srce: d     Audn:       Ctrl:       Lang: eng

BLvl: m     Form: s     GPub:       Time: 011     MRec:       Ctry: azu

Desc: a     TMat: v     Tech: l     DtSt: s     Dates: 2000,

006       [m         z         ]

007       c   $b r   $d c   $e n   $h u

007       v   $b z   $d c   $e z   $h u

245   00   Navajo rug weaving $h [electronic resource] / $c Tad Nichols.

260          [Flagstaff, Ariz. : $b Northern Arizona University], $c c2000.

500          Streaming video (10 min., 17 sec. : si., col.).

538          System requirements; RealPlayerG2.

538          Mode of access: World Wide Web.

500          Title from header on screen (viewed Nov. 28, 2002).

520          Silent movie, with intertitles, shows all the steps involved in weaving a Navajo rug, including shearing the sheep, cleaning and dying the wool, spinning the yarn, preparing the loom, weaving the rug, and removing the rug from the loom.

700   1     Nichols, Tad.

710   2     Northern Arizona University.

856   40   $u http://www.nau.edu/library/speccoll/exhibits/traders/trade/index.html

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Last updated: April 7, 2003
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