List identifier:  rdamedia

This list contains Resource Description and Access (RDA) terms and corresponding one-character lower case alphabetic codes for RDA Media types.  These types can be recorded in MARC Bibliographic and Holdings records in textual form and/or in the one-character coded form in MARC field 337 (Media Type).  They may also be recorded, sometimes in a more granular and sometimes in a more general form, with one-character codes in MARC 007/00 (Category of material), in most cases.  In the following, the one-character codes and terms for field 337, subfields $b and $a, respectively, are listed along with the corresponding 007 codes.

The source code for this list in field 337 $2 (Source) is rdamedia.

Code List

RDA media terms
337 $a

MARC codes for RDA terms
337 $b

MARC media codes
007/00

audio

s

s - sound recording

computer

c

c - electronic resource

microform

h

h - microform

microscopic

p

 

projected

g

g - projected graphic

m - motion picture

stereographic

e

 

unmediated

n

t  - text

k - non-projected graphic

video

v

v - videorecording

other

x

z - unspecified

unspecified

z

z - unspecified

Source:  http://www.loc.gov/standards/valuelist/rdamedia.html - April 5, 2011

See also:

Value Lists for Codes and Controlled Vocabularies:  Contents