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OLAC Best Practice for extent of manifestation

Prerecording

Recording

Recording an unstructured description

Condition Option

Do not apply the option for video recordings or video games.

Condition Option

Do not apply the option for video recordings or video games.

Condition Option

Apply the option for objects if an appropriate term is not found in the Carrier Extent Unit VES. Do not apply the option for videodiscs, video games, or streaming media.

Recording a structured description

Option

Apply the option for video games.

Exact number of units not readily ascertainable

Units cannot be named concisely

Units and sets of units with identical content

Condition Option

Apply the option for streaming media. When there are multiple files of the same online resource on a specific provider's website, follow the PCC Provider-Neutral E-Resource MARC Record Guidelines and record "1 online resource (video files)" or "1 online resource (audio files)" in MARC field 300 $a, as the number of files representing the same resource may vary according to provider.

Number of subunits

Computer discs, cartridges, etc.

Filmstrips and filmslips

Flipcharts

Microfiches and microfilm

Online resources

Option

Apply the option for streaming media.

Condition Option

Do not apply the option for online video games.

Overhead transparencies

Stereographs

Videodiscs

Exact number of subunits not readily ascertainable

Subunits in multiple unit manifestations

Incomplete manifestations

Describing a manifestation that is a collection

Number of items, containers, or volumes

Storage space

Number and type of unit

Describing a part of a manifestation

Number of units or subunits in a part

Location of a part within a larger manifestation

Extent of manifestations of cartographic works

More than one cartographic unit on one or more sheets

Cartographic units presented in two or more segments

Atlases

Extent of manifestations of notated music

Extent of manifestations of still images

Two or more images on one or more units

One image spanning two or more units

Albums, portfolios, etc.

Extent of manifestations of text

Single unit manifestations

Single volumes with numbered pages, leaves, or columns

Single volumes with unnumbered pages, leaves, or columns

Numbered and unnumbered sequences

Inessential matter

Change in form of numbering within a sequence

Misleading numbering

Incomplete volumes

Pages, etc., numbered as part of a larger sequence

Complicated or irregular paging, etc.

Leaves or pages of plates

Numbered leaves or pages of plates

Unnumbered leaves or pages of plates

Folded leaves

Double leaves

Duplicated paging, etc.

Pages numbered in opposite directions

Single sheets

Single portfolios or cases

Multiple unit manifestations

Two or more volumes

Completed serials

Continuously paged volumes

Individually paged volumes

Updating loose-leafs

Two or more sheets

Two or more portfolios or cases

Extent of three-dimensional forms

Option

Apply the option for objects.

Recording an identifier

Recording an IRI

Document Date: 2026/02/06
Document: https://access.rdatoolkit.org/en-US_ala-985aaf96-9c78-3534-953f-94d0f5aa6949

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