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Subject: MAPS-L: geographic code indexing
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005
From: Kathy Stroud <[log in to unmask]>
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Our catalog here at UC Davis
(http://harvest.lib.ucdavis.edu/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b&local_base=ucd01pub)
indexes the 052 field. So does Melvyl
(http://melvyl.cdlib.org/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b&local_base=cdl90),
the catalog for the all the University of Californias. We're both using
ExLibris Aleph Software for our ILS. We can either browse by geographic
code or do keyword search on geographic code. I don't know the
technical details of how the indexes are made.
Kathy Stroud, Map/GIS Librarian
Government Information and Maps
Peter J. Shields Library
100 NW Quad
Davis, California 95616-5292
(530) 752-5248
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From: "Angie Cope, AGSL" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: MAPS-L: geographic code indexing
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> Subject: MAPS-L: geographic code indexing
> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005
> From: Seldin, Daniel T. <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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> The only catalog I know of that allows searching of MARC 052 is RLIN.
> They have had the capability for many years. I do not know how it is
> indexed.
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> Daniel T. Seldin
> Map Cataloger
> Technical Service Dept.
> Herman B Wells Library E350
> 1320 E. 10th St.
> Bloomington, IN 47405-3907
> 812-855-2059
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> Subject: geographic code indexing
> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005
> From: Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]>
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> Hello, colleagues.
>
> I have a question for a group of you among the map catalogers who use
> the LC Classification schedule G for maps and atlases. Specifically,
> anyone whose catalog has an index for the MARC 052, Geographic
> Classification.
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> I would welcome any information on how this index functions, what type
> of index it is. I can describe to my colleagues what this number
> represents, and how it might be derived. I can convey a sense of its
> potential value for a searchable index of the catalog, as it can be more
> precise and concise to convey a geographical area covered by a map, and
> can distinguish between a general and a thematic map of the same major
> area.
> But I am at a loss to give any of the technical information about how
> this would actually be indexed.
>
> Ken
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> Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]>
> Maps Librarian Phone: 513-529-1726
> Miami University Libraries
> Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA
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