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Subject:        Re: MAPS-L: Classifying a small map collection using LC?
Date:   Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:58:39 -0800
From:   Mary Larsgaard <[log in to unmask]>
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Organization:   UCSB Map & Imagery Lab, Library
To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>





Yes, definitely use LC Classification, Schedule G,
for classifying the collection. Much easier to deal
with it when it's still small. The only time I ever
didn't use LC classification (for USGS folded maps,
while I was at the CO School of Mines Library),
I paid for it in the time it took me to reclass
several hundred maps into LC, when it became
obvious that what I'd done was a very poor idea.
If you need proof - in the form of a list of reasons
to use LC classification -
use page 154 from:

Larsgaard, Mary.
1998. Map Librarianship: An Introduction. 3rd ed.
Englewood CO: Libraries Unlimited.

Mary

Maps-L wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:        Classifying a small map collection using LC?
> Date:   Tue, 9 Jan 2007 16:52:04 -0500
> From:   Carolyn Bowen <[log in to unmask]>
> To:     [log in to unmask]
> CC:     Carolyn Bowen <[log in to unmask]>
>
> All,
>
> We have a small map collection (~20,000 maps) that is hidden away on a
> lower level; the only entrance is through a stairway door just outside a
> reference librarian's office.  The collection is, for the most part,
> uncataloged and underused.  Maps are arranged by a locally devised scheme
> based primarily on collating items alphabetically by geographic area.
>
> Due to the absorption of a significant collection, historically housed
> elsewhere on campus, space is being reallocated.  We are considering
> moving
> the map collection to a section of the reference area on the first floor.
>
> What would be the pros and cons of adopting LC-classification for the
> maps?  We are starting to catalog the maps and are trying to decide
> whether
> classifying them using LC would be helpful to potential users.
>
> Carolyn Bowen
> Multi-formats Cataloger
> Jackson Library
> University of North Carolina, Greensboro
> P.O. Box 26170
> Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
>
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> telephone: 336-334-5781


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Mary Lynette Larsgaard
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Assistant Head, Map and Imagery Laboratory
Davidson Library
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