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Subject: RE: [MapHist] Archival description of maps
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 17:36:36 +0100
From: "StJohn, Michael" <[log in to unmask]>


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I'm sure it's not the done thing to point to one's own work, but, well,
I
have spent many months cataloguing in excess of 550 maps and related
papers
of the Spencer family's holdings to individual item/map level. I must
stress
that I am not pointing to these descriptions as exemplars of
cataloguing,
and I would be the first to state that the descriptions are not perfect
(is
there such a thing as a perfect description? That can be the subject of
somebody else's dissertation perhaps, I've enough on my plate!). Nor do
the
descriptions follow any international standard (they meet the BL's
in-house
rules), but they are an example of what David is looking for.
Go to http://molcat.bl.uk/msscat/INDEX.ASP, and do a Description search
on
any number between Add 78108 and 78155 to see my efforts.

Michael

> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [MapHist] Archival description of maps
>
>
> The survey recently announced on the map listservs by Michael
> St. John has
> stirred my interest in what archivists are doing to describe
> maps.  I see
> that the most recent edition of Procter's Manual of Archival
> Description
> includes instructions for describing maps down to the individual sheet
> level, but I have not actually seen any examples of map
> description/cataloging done according to archival standards.
> I vaguely
> recall hearing out that a project along these lines is being
> carried out at
> the Public Record Office and perhaps elsewhere in Britain.  I
> would very
> much appreciate it if somebody could point me to some
> examples of archival
> description of individual maps.
>
> David Allen
> Map Librarian
> Stony Brook University
>
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