[MinervaCats] Minerva Cataloging Committee Nov Report

[Katherine R. Morgan]

Hello Catalogers
    Below you will find the November report on the items the  
cataloging committee has been working on. Your questions and comments  
are welcomed.

thanks
Katherine, chair

Minerva Cataloging Standards Committee
November 2008 Update




Blu-Ray discs
     	Ellen Conway was sent a question about cataloging Blu-Ray discs.  
The committee decided that Blu-Ray discs will be cataloged as DVDs.  
The material type is DVD, the GMD id ?videorecording.? To make the  
Blu-Ray distinct a MARC 538 field will be used that states ?Blu-Ray  
disc.?

Playaways
    	 During the September 23, 2008 cataloging users? group meeting  
the catalogers asked the cataloging committee to make a policy on  
Playaways. The Playaways need earphones and one battery to play. Some  
libraries send the earphones and battery while some do not. The  
committee decided that each Playaway bibliographic record will contain  
a MARC 538 field note with the following ?requires earphone and AAA  
battery.? This way, libraries that say they provide earphones and a  
battery will not be inundated with requests and the Playaways will be  
cataloged consistently.


MARC 791
       The committee is still looking at this field. MARC 791 is used  
by libraries that have special collections that need to be searchable  
in the OPAC. To use this field a library needs to have approval by the  
standards committee. Once the committee has a few options we will ask  
for feedback.



The next standards meeting will be in January 2009 after the  
Catalogers? User Group.



Katherine R. Morgan
Technical Services/Administrative Assistant
Norway Memorial Library
207-743-5309