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Subject:        Re: Map images through an online catalog
Date:   Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:13:46 -0500
From:   Paige Andrew <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi Bob!

Here at PSU, which is a Sirsi institution, we have done a handful of
projects linking a bib. record to a map image, particularly for our
Earth & Mineral Sciences Library's map collection. On other occasions
we are scanning map images and putting them up on our website under
digital collections, but creating metadata for each image and not
linking directly from records in the OPAC. Still, on other occasions
we create a bib. record for a specific website with groups of maps,
or a single map or atlas. So, we haven't standardized things yet
here, and I think that is due more to the question of whether or not
to do everything one way, and whether that way is through bib.
records in the OPAC. Personally, I see sharing information about
digital cart. materials being done in different manners as being a
good thing because underlying the decisions are differing needs and
purposed for the images involved.

Paige

At 10:00 AM 2/20/2009, you wrote:
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>Subject:        Map images through an online catalog
>Date:   Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:37:41 -0500
>From:   Bob Kibbee <[log in to unmask]>
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>
>Hi,
>
>Are any map librarians linking to their own map image database from
>a Voyager catalog or from WorldCat Local? We do this for the David
>Rumsey maps, but I wonder if anyone is linking from a map record in
>their OPAC to the specific individual image in their own database of
>map images.
>
>Any information would be great. And in fact linking strategies from
>any of the standard OPACs would be interesting.
>
>Bob
>
>
>Bob Kibbee
>Map & GIS Librarian
>Map and Geospatial Information Collection
>B17 Olin Library, Cornell University
>Ithaca,  New York    14853-5301
>voice 607-255-9566 / fax 607-255-3609