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Subject: Archval descripotion of maps - correction
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:14:54 +0100
From: "StJohn, Michael" <[log in to unmask]>


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In my response last week to David Allen's query about cataloguing of
maps to
individual sheet level, I wrote (referring to my own cataloguing work):

Nor do the descriptions follow any international standard (they meet the
BL's in-house rules)

Two things: firstly, I should have written 'departmental rules' (in this
case, Department of Manuscripts), not 'BL rules'. And secondly the
descriptions I was referring to which do not follow international
standards
were descriptions of manuscript maps in the Department of Manuscripts,
not
printed (or any other type) maps in the Map Library, or other
departments of
the BL.

Michael


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