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Subject:        Re: Map cataloging questions from beginning catalogers
Date:   Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:55:44 -0400
From:   Paige Andrew <[log in to unmask]>
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It goes before the author cutter as I showed in the example. The
author cutter, which comes after $b, is the last element in G-class
call numbers with a couple of exceptions. This differs from the
construction of call numbers for books (and atlases) and other materials.

Paige

At 04:42 PM 10/7/2009, Maps-L Moderator wrote:
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>Subject:        Re: Map cataloging questions from beginning catalogers
>Date:   Wed, 7 Oct 2009 15:51:23 -0400
>From:   Ava Iuliano <[log in to unmask]>
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>Thank you!  Does the scale go before or after the author cutter number?
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>On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Maps-L Moderator <[log in to unmask]
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>    Subject:        Re: [MAPS-L] Map cataloging questions from beginning
>    catalogers
>    Date:   Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:47:12 -0500
>    From:   Susan Moore <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
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>    Maps-L Moderator wrote:
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>        -------- Original Message --------
>        Subject:        Map cataloging questions from beginning catalogers
>        Date:   Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:35:29 -0400
>        From:   Ava Iuliano <[log in to unmask]
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>        Hello everyone,
>
>         I am a rookie cataloger that is currently working on cataloging
>        maps.  I
>        am working with another beginning cataloger and we've run across
>        an item
>        that is causing us both some confusion.  The map is a large
>        UNESCO map
>        produced in a couple of different editions, even though the
>        individual
>        sheets form one single map (50 sheets making up one single HUGE
>        map).  The
>        English title is 'International Geological Map of Europe and the
>        Mediterranean Regions 1:1500000" with parallel titles in French
>        and German.
>        The date range is from 1964-2000.  In creating a record for this
>        item (our
>        OCLC searches have produced only bare-bones records in German
>        that often
>        only describe a single sheet or Australian records for only a
>        partial
>        holding), how do we delineate that it is a single item in multiple
>        editions?
>        How would you create the record for this particular item?
>
>
>    Welcome to the world of map cataloging!
>
>    It isn't unusual for items like this to have sheets with different
>    edition statements. What I usually do is add a 500 note "Sheets in
>    various editions" to explain the situation.
>
>    Since you do have several different editions, I'd be incline to catalog
>    this as a map series, rather than a single map. OCLC's Bibliographic
>    Format and Standards defines a map series as "a number of related but
>    physically separate and bibliographically distinct cartographic units
>    intended by the producers or issuing bodies to form a single group."
>    Since the sheets can be cataloged separately, I think what you have
>    matches the definition. If you do decide to catalog this as a map
>    series, the CrTp in the fixed field needs to be a "b". Other than that
>    and putting the scale in as part of the call number, you would catalog
>    it much as you would a single map.
>
>    Feel free to contact me if you have further questions.
>
>    Susan Moore
>    Rod Library
>    University of Northern Iowa
>    Cedar Falls, IA  50613
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