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Subject: Re: MAPS-L: expanding cutters.
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005
From: Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>


My understanding from local practice as well as from other libraries'
practice with the main entry cutter at the end of a call number is that
the local library can expand this number to suit it's needs.

I put this into practice with CIA maps frequently, while often relying on
the Library of Congress with the numbers they have applied to a particular
group of maps.  One would be .U5, another with the same classification and
date would be .U51, the next .U52, and so on as needed.

Paige Andrew covers this in his Cataloging Sheet Maps, the Basics (2003)
at page 165- 166.  "To prevent duplicate call numbers from being
established, additional numbers can be added to extend the author cutter."
p. 166

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Ken Grabach                           <[log in to unmask]>
Maps Librarian                         Phone: 513-529-1726
Miami University Libraries
Oxford, Ohio  45056  USA

> Subject: expanding cutters.
> Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 13:31:40 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Jon Jablonski <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Here's a Friday afternoon classification question for you:
>
> As we start to get more organized here at UO, we are finding more and more
> gaps in our knowledge, and more and more maps that seem to want the same
> class number.
>
> It's no surprise that multiple maps wind up with the same class numbers.
> But when the author/publisher is the same, how are people expanding
> cutters to distinguish between 2 different titles.  Are they using a work
> indicator, ala:
>
>       G 7610 2003 .U5a
>       G 7610 2003 .U5b
>
> or are you expanding the cutter according to the table, slowly spelling
> out United States as the CIA produces each successive ever-so-slightly
> different map of Iraq:
>
>       G 7610 2003 .U5
>       G 7610 2003 .U55
>       G 7610 2003 .U558
>       G 7610 2003 .U5584
>
> Inquiring minds want to know.  And dusty maps want to be put away.
>
> -jon jablonski
> University of Oregon MAP/GIS Librarian
>
>
>
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