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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 12:47:17 -0600 (CST)
From: christopher  winters <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: questions about cataloging plotted maps
 
 
I have two interrelated questions about cataloging maps that have
come off a plotter.
 
[1] Some libraries have been treating these as "manuscript maps" (OCLC
record type f--see OCLC 29382348, for example). Other libraries have
just been calling these "maps" (OCLC record type e--see, for example, OCLC
40425400 (from LC)). Is there a recent more or less definitive ruling
on this question?
 
[2] Plotted maps sometimes include the date and even time of production
(see, again, OCLC 40425400, for a plotted map dated to the closest
second). Does a different reported moment of production (as I suspect)
require the copy cataloger to create a new record or can one simply
correct the local record and report a match (as one might if one held copy
44 of 500 while the library that created the OCLC record held copy 23)?
It's not good enough to say that two plots describable with identical
bibliographic information can be very different; that would be true even
if the reported moment of production were exactly the same.
 
I'd be grateful for any advice.
 
Thanks.
 
Chris Winters
University of Chicago Library
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