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Subject: [Fwd: Scale Statement]
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 14:53:03 -0500
From: Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]>
Organization: American Geographical Society Library
Thank you to those who replied to my inquiry regarding scale. I can't
agree more with everyone who says "read the book." Sometimes, reading
the book and finding so many crazy examples out in OCLC leaves one in
doubt (me).
So, thank you all for helping me to have this public conversation
regarding what is correct and what isn't correct.
I'm pasting below one other reply I received that succinctly summarized
the answer to this query.
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Subject: Scale Statement
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 10:20:49 -0500
From: "Dienes, Jennie" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Angie Cope" <[log in to unmask]>
Dear Angie,
It can be rather confusing but I hope the following notes help you.
In Cartographic Material, Second Edition, A Manual of Interpretation
for AACR2, 2002 Revision, you can find in Chapter 3, Mathematical and
Other Material Specific Details Area, quite a lot about your dilemmas, etc.
3B3. (p. 3-5) If the scale within one item varies and the outside
values are know, give both scales connected by a hyphen. (See Figure 3.)
Scale 1:16,000-1:28,000 (Library of Congress puts in the commas
although some other libraries do not)
If the values are not known, give Scale varies.
Read the Applications information and study the diagram on the next page.
3B4. (p. 3-6) In describing a cartographic item in which the main
maps [notice the plural of maps], etc., are of more than one scale, give
Scales differ.
Again there is Application information. Our library follows the
Library of Congress policies.
[Notice that for 3B3 the words say: Scale varies. (Scale
is in the singular.)
----------- and in 3B4, the words say: Scales differ.
(Scales is in the plural.)]
3B5. (p. 3-7) If an item is not drawn to scale, give Not
drawn to scale. So not estimate a scale.
The use of italics in the manual indicates to me that those are the
phrases to use in the 255 Scale statement area.
You can always add 500 notes if you think that the 255 statement doesn't
reflect all the information you want the
patron to know.
I hope this helps you.
Jennie
Jennie Dienes
Map Librarian/Cataloger
Watson Library, Room 240
1425 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence, KS 66045-7544
tel. (785) 864-4346
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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