Rap, race & equality / Elliott Productions & Burberry Productions present a film by Stephen & Grant Elliott ; produced & directed by Stephen & Grant Elliott. (OCLC #31401623)
RDA 7.17.1.4 on Details of Colour Content says to record details of colour content if considered important for identification or selection, as evidenced by the resource itself, as in:
300 1 videocassette (50 min.) : ǂb sound, color with
black and white sequences ; ǂc 1/2 in.
We’ve just begun cataloging a large gift of VHS tapes, transferred to the university’s library from our Martin Luther King Center. Looks like there are some good titles in there! I did have to replace the batteries in our cataloging department’s VCR remote (we had not used it in a while) as the pause button is crucial for cataloging.
Hopefully we’ll find copy for most of these, but if not, we will consult OLAC’s DVD and Blu-Ray guide, adjusting accordingly for format.
Salute : C. Oran Little, Dean and Director UK College of Agriculture, 1988-2000 / produced by Dr. Little’s friends and family ; crafted through the efforts of Ag Communications Services. (OCLC #894704261)
RDA 3.5.1.4.3 on recording the dimensions of resources with cassettes as carriers says to record the gauge (i.e., width) of the film or tape in millimetres and use the metric symbol mm. As an example, it gives the gauge of VHS tape as “13mm”. This differs from our practice in AACR2, where we recorded the dimensions in inches: ½ in.
There is an alternative to RDA 3.5.1.3 which gives the option to record dimensions in the system of measurement preferred by the agency preparing the description. The national libraries have different recommendations for applying the alternative:
We felt that our catalog would be more consistent (and our patrons best served, should they choose to look at that field) if we continued to use inches for videotape, so we made it our local policy to do so:
300 __ ǂa 1 videocassette (95 min.) : ǂb sound, color ; ǂc 1/2 in.