This session provides basic cataloging instruction for the RDA instructions relevant to video games, including best practices for titles, game platforms, and vocabulary terms for form and genre. All examples are provided using the MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data (MFBD).
Learning Outcomes
Participants will be able to apply the RDA instructions specific to video games including the treatment of franchise names, encoding of platforms, and variations for digital file characteristics.
Bio
Bobby Bothmann is a professor at Minnesota State University, Mankato where he serves as the catalog and metadata librarian. Bobby catalogs analog and digital resources of all kinds, including books, serials, moving images, objects, cartographic resources, musical and spoken word audio recordings, and music in between many meetings. Bobby also moonlights as an adjunct instructor for the School of Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he teaches cataloging and classification courses and tries to covert one student per semester to the cataloging side of the Force.