Information:
Carrier Type (338 tag) indicates the storage medium
in which the content is recorded.
Carrier Type is a Resource Description and Access
(RDA) core element and is mandatory in an RDA MARC
record. This tag along with tags 336 and 337 will
be used in place of subfield h of the 245 tag in RDA
MARC records.
Instructions on recording carrier type are in RDA
section 3.3.
Subfield a contains a term such as volume, videodisc,
audio disc, audiocassette, etc., for the carrier type
or storage medium of the content.
Subfield b contains a two-character lower case
alphabetic code for the carrier type.
Subfield 2 contains the source of the term or code.
Subfield 3 contains the part of the described material
to which the code applies.
A list of terms and codes used for Carrier Types
is available at:
http://www.loc.gov/standards/valuelist/rdacarrier.html
Terms and/or codes are recorded in the MARC record. In
Destiny a drop down box with a list of terms and codes
is provided. Also in Destiny, default terms are
provided in the templates; however, these may be edited
if needed for the resource being cataloged.
Indicators
First Undefined
blank Undefined
Second Undefined
blank Undefined
Subfields
a Carrier type term (R)
b Carrier type code (R)
2 Source (NR)
3 Materials specified (NR)
6 Linkage (NR)
8 Field link and sequence number (R)
Examples:
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
(term used for printed texts)
338 _acomputer disc
_2rdacarrier
338 _aslide
_2rdacarrier
338 _avideodisc
_bvd
_2rdacarrier
338 _anc
_2rdacarrier
(code for volume)
338 _3CD
_aaudio disc
_2rdacarrier
338 _3book
_avolume
_2rdacarrier
(audiobook on CD with accompanying print book)
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