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Subject: RE: [MapHist] Harvard Map Cataloging Project
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 10:11:35 +0100
From: Carlucci, April <[log in to unmask]>


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All

The question is, is all of the Original Harvard Foolster's message a joke,
or just the bit about debinding old atlases? I'd be sorry to hear there's no
cataloging project, as I'm sure we're all dying to know what Harvard's got
in its collection.

April Carlucci
British Library Map Collections

PS For those who might be thinking they'd like to know what's in the BL map
collection too, you will in a few months when our new integrated catalogue
goes on the Internet. Details will follow.

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From: David Cobb [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 01 April 2004 18:53
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Subject: [MapHist] Harvard Map Cataloging Project



Dear Colleagues -

After several years of discussing the possibilities, we are pleased to
announce that the Harvard Map Collection has begun to catalog its
antiquarian map collection. This weekend (April 2-3) we will be remodeling
the interior of the Map Collection to create a more efficient processing
area so that we can have more room to review and catalog the maps. We will,
of course, concentrate our cataloging efforts initially on the Boston and
New England regions. Our plans are to quickly move into the America's,
North America, and colonial America collections as well. Initial sampling
for some of these maps reveals that we will be able to take advantage of
the excellent cataloging already completed at the Library of Congress and
other research library institutions.

As with any such project, it is inevitable that duplicates will be
identified. We are also finding many duplicates between our atlas
collection and those of the flat map collection. Since so many of the
atlases are difficult to use and our patrons always want the area usually
found in the "gutter" it is had been decided that these maps would be far
more valuable to our users if they were flat. Since we have no intention of
selling the atlases, thereby the atlas value is inconsequential, it will be
far easier to rid ourselves of the limits of those volumes. Therefore, it
will be easier to "debind" and catalog them as flat maps and they are far
easier to copy that way as well.

Since we have begun our cataloging this seems an appropos time to complete
two projects at the same time and make our collection more accessible and
much easier for us to file. We look forward to keeping everyone aware of
our progress.

David Cobb

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Harvard Map Collection                          FAX  617.496.0440
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