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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 14:41:25 -0500
From: Scott McEathron <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: a subject cataloging question <fwd>
 
 
Nancy,
 
I find the examples and guidance in LC's "Map Cataloging Manual" the
most useful.  To answer your question: yes I put the free-floating
subdivisions after each heading it applies to (up to three regions).
 
One thing  I find distressing  about free-floating subdivisions for
maps is that it is apparently impermissible in LC practice to use them
after places which are larger than country i.e North America, Europe,
South America, Earth, etc.  For example, it would seem logical to
construct the subject heading for a map called "Climates of North
America" as:   North America--Climate--Maps.  More often, I construct
subject heading for small geographical regions i.e. towns, lakes,
streams--then run into the same problem.  Perhaps some of the
more experienced map catalogers can comment on the limited scope of
"places" in the Subject Cataloging Manual.
 
Scott McEathron
 
 
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> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 11:27:57 -0500
> From: nkandoian <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: a subject cataloging question
>
>      I'm wondering if map catalogers can tell me about practices in
>      their libraries in regard to the use of free-floating
>      subdivisions for maps.
>       Are some subdivisions (e.g. Early works to 1800) used only
>       after one
>      heading even if they apply to all subject headings, to save on
>      typing or avoid repetition, on the theory that certain kinds of
>      searching (keyword or limiting) will allow  retrieval of the
>      records in any case?  For some free-floaters that are also
>      subject headings (e.g. Maps, Manuscript; Maps--Facsimiles;
>      Maps, Pictorial), do some libraries use these only once in a
>      record as a subject heading, rather than repeatedly as a
>      subheading to each heading to which they can properly be
>      attached?  I am asking not only about the proper way to handle
>      these headings, but also about the local practices that
>      libraries may employ, which may vary from the rules.  And how
>      have these variant practices come about?
>
>      For example, for a pre-1800 manuscript chart of Delaware Bay
>      showing also the Jersey shore, might some libraries use
>      headings such as the following:
>
>      Nautical charts--Delaware Bay (Del. and N.J.).
>      Coasts--Delaware--Maps.
>      Coasts--New Jersey--Maps.
>      Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800.
>
>      rather than:
>
>      Delaware Bay (Del. and N.J.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to
>      1800. Nautical charts--Delaware Bay (Del. and N.J.)--Early
>      works to 1800. Coasts--Delaware--Maps, Manuscript--Early works
>      to 1800. Coasts--New Jersey--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to
>      1800.  ?
>
>      Was there some discussion related to this issue at recent
>      MAGERT meetings, in the context of form and genre terms for
>      maps, and use of the 655 versus subfield v?
>
>      Your comments about your local practices will be appreciated.
>      Please respond to the list unless you prefer some level of
>      confidentiality.
>
>
>      Nancy Kandoian
>      NYPL Map Division
>      [log in to unmask]
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