• Core 3.2: LCPCCCore
• Scope 3.2.1.1
  
  • this data identifies what type of player or equipment is needed so that you can “view, play, run, etc., the content of a resource”; a closed list of terms is used to identify whether the media device needed to access the content of the resource is an audio player or a video player or a computer, etc.
• Source 3.2.1.2: EPbRI; Any
• Data entry 3.2.1.3: Recorded from a vocabulary (Closed)
  
  • use terms from RDA Term List; or
    
  • use terms and/or codes from MARC Term and Code List for RDA Media Types
• Function Ch. 3: Carr
• Entity: Manifestation

MARC-Bib: 337a; 337b (Media type term)

• Check the 'Source' instruction to be sure that you are looking at the correct source(s) of information on the resource
• If data on the resource and data as the element in the record are:
  • PoR/PaE–check the Data Entry instructions:
    • data for this element must be Recorded from a vocabulary (Closed): the term(s) must be appropriate for the resource, even if they are not from the official list of terms
  • PoR/AaE–check the Core instructions:
    • data for this element is LCPCCCore: if the data has not been given as another element instead:
      
      • it is ok if the element is missing, since the other cataloger might simply have decided not to add it; but
        
      • it is not ok if you feel that the fact that the element is missing indicates a true difference
  • AoR/PaE–check the Source instructions again:
    • since the Source for this element is or includes 'Any': accept the data, but only if it seems applicable
  • AoR/AaE–go to the next element:
    • but be sure to check the resource carefully, if the data for the element is Core, or if the data is important for differentiating the resource from a similar resource
• Check below, for any useful Notes

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