337 Media Type (R)
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| ǂa | Media type term (R) | Required if applicable/Optional | |
| ǂb | Media type code (R) | Required if applicable/Optional | |
| ǂ0 | Authority record control number or standard number (R) | Optional/Optional | |
| ǂ2 | Source (NR) | Required if applicable/Optional | |
| ǂ3 | Materials specified (NR) | Required if applicable/Optional | |
| ǂ8 | Field link and sequence number (R) | Optional/Optional | |
Definition |
Media type reflects the general type of intermediation device required to view, play, run, etc., the content of a resource. Used as an alternative to or in addition to the coded expression of Media type in field 007 subfield ǂa. Field 337 information enables indication of more specific media types and media types from various lists. Multiple media types should be recorded in separate occurrences of field 337. For guidance on describing and encoding the attributes of audio recording carriers, see “Supplement 1” of the Music Library Association’s Supplements to Best Practices for Music Cataloging Using RDA and MARC21 (http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.musiclibraryassoc.org/resource/resmgr/BCC_RDA/Supp_RDA_Best_Practices.pdf). |
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| ǂa Media type term | Media type of the work being described. Use terms which correspond to the language of cataloging used in other parts of the description (see field 040 ǂb for more information). For a list of RDA media type terms, see Term and Code List for RDA Media Types (http://www.loc.gov/standards/valuelist/rdamedia.html).
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| ǂb Media type code | Code representing the media type of the work being described. For codes identifying RDA media types (i.e., subfield ǂ2 is coded rdamedia), see Term and Code List for RDA Media Types (http://www.loc.gov/standards/valuelist/rdamedia.html).
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| ǂ0 Authority record control number or standard number | For information about subfield ǂ0, see Control Subfields. |
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| ǂ2 Source | MARC code that identifies the source of the term or code used to record the content type information. See Genre/Form Code and Term Source Codes (http://www.loc.gov/standards/sourcelist/genre-form.html).
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| ǂ3 Materials specified | For information about subfield ǂ3, see Control Subfields. Subfield ǂ3 should be placed at the end of field 337.
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| ǂ8 Field link and sequence number | For information about subfield ǂ8, see Control Subfields. |
This page last revised: March 10, 2017