Music Library Association Best Practices for applied material
Prerecording
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
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
In MARC: Apply the option when recording field 007 for physical audio carriers.
Recording an unstructured description
Option
Apply the option only if no appropriate controlled term is available.
Option
LC/PCC practice: Cataloger's judgment.
Condition Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option.
Recording a structured description
Option
LC/PCC practice: Apply the option. Record a term from the RDA Material vocabulary encoding scheme, its LC Linked Data Service equivalent, or another appropriate vocabulary encoding scheme.
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: 2026/10/09
Document: https://stage.rdatoolkit.org/en-US_ala-b18458fe-c2ff-3148-a80f-f8004f253bae