This was my first time cataloging a board
game, and it was interesting to see how it was similar and different from
cataloging a book. One of the most interesting issues when it came to
cataloging this game was deciding how to list it in a few different fields in
both RDA and MARC since this was an expansion pack to the Ticket to Ride game,
and not the actual game itself. I did a search for this particular expansion
pack through WorldCat, but could not find it at any of the libraries listed, or
through some other searches I did, so I ended up using a record I found for
another Ticket to Ride expansion kit that showed the MARC record as a guide for
some of the different MARC fields I would need to use. For instance, where
should I put how many players the game is designed for and playing time, which
both ended up on the 500 General Note field. The RDA cataloging for this item
proved to be more straightforward than MARC. I was able to find a couple of
fields I needed by using the search feature within the RDA toolkit under “board
games” which proved helpful in finding other fields I would need to use for
creating this record.
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