Music Library Association Best Practices for applied material

Prerecording

Record the element for certain types of audio carriers if deemed useful for identification or selection. For guidance and examples refer to Supplements to Best Practices for Music Cataloging Using RDA and MARC21 Supplement 1: Guidelines for Describing and Encoding Attributes of Audio Recording Carriers.

Recording

In MARC: Record as a structured description using field 340 subfield $c. If terms from different sources are used in the same field, record a separate instance of the field for each term source used.

For field 007, refer to Manifestation: material.

Option

LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option in most cases. If there is doubt that a material is applied, use Manifestation: material.

Recording an unstructured description

Option

Apply the option only if no appropriate controlled term is available.

Option

LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.

Option

LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option.

Condition Option

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.

Recording a structured description

Option

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option. Use one or more appropriate terms from the list at Vocabulary Encoding Schemes: RDA Material.

Option

In MARC: If recording a term from the recommended vocabulary encoding scheme, indicate the source of information using the $2 code rdamat.

Recording an identifier

Recording an IRI

Document Date: 2025/02/24
Document: https://access.rdatoolkit.org/en-US_ala-b18458fe-c2ff-3148-a80f-f8004f253bae