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Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 2:47:06 PM
Subject: RE: help with LCSH for northeast towns & cities
Thank you all so much for your help with this. I *think* I have a handle on this now!
Beth
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From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 4:05 PM
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Subject: Re: help with LCSH for northeast towns & cities
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Subject: Re: help with LCSH for northeast towns & cities
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:00:23 -0500
From: Stone, Howard <[log in to unmask]>
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A place name qualified by "Town" has definite boundaries, and is larger than the same place with no qualifier, which will be a village or small central area within the town. For example, if you go to http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/USA/rhode_island_map.htm,
you'll see a dot labeled "Tiverton" at the eastern edge of the map. The dot refers to a small central area about a half mile across. This corresponds to the authority record Tiverton (R.I.). But the authority record Tiverton (R.I. : Town) refers to a much larger area, approximately 4 miles from east to west by 6 miles from north to south, covering the northern half of the portion of Rhode Island east of the Sakonnet River.
To confuse matters, a "town" sometimes contains several villages, none of which shares the name of the town. For example, Burrillville is a town in the northwest corner of the state, about 8 miles east-west and 4 miles north-south, with the authority record Burrillville (R.I. : Town).
However, the town contains no village or smaller community that is also called Burrillville. The town of Burrillville contains about eight distinct villages, each with a different name. The state map linked above shows the village of Pascoag (the largest in the town), which again is about a half a mile across, with the authority record Pascoag (R.I.).
Hope this helps,
Howard Stone, Map Cataloger, Brown University, Providence, RI
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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Subject: help with LCSH for northeast towns & cities
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:31:28 +0000
From: Elizabeth J Cox <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
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Good morning, oh great collective wisdom. The staff person who works
with me doing copy cataloging of maps has asked me to explain the
difference between these two geographic subject headings:
Warwick (N.Y.)
Warwick (N.Y. : Town)
I seem to recall that this issue is specific to the northeast U.S. and
that I had a difficult time wrapping my head around it when it was
explained to me many years ago. Can anyone provide a good, preferably
brief explanation? Or is there somewhere online that can?
Thank you!
Beth
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