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Subject: RE: GMD for maps
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:39:33 +1000
From: "Maura O'Connor" <[log in to unmask]>


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Dear Chris
The National Library of Australia has been using a gmd since it first
started using USMARC/MARC to display our carto-bibliographic data, back
in
1980.  I think the term : cartographic material has only come into use
in
the last couple of years. Our collection numbers around 600 000 modern
maps,
small compared to the BL and LC but the largest map collection in
Australia.
You can view our records online through our website : www.nla.gov.au,
and
follow the prompts from the home page, starting with "Our catalogue".  A
MARC view of the records is also possible.  If that does not answer your
query about the 245 field and its punctuation, please contact me
offline.
Yours sincerely
Maura O'Connor
Map Curator
National Library of Australia
CANBERRA   ACT  2600
AUSTRALIA
Phone : 61 2 6262 1280
Fax : 61 2 6262 1653
Email : [log in to unmask]




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> From:         Johnnie Sutherland[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Reply To:     Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum
> Sent:         Thursday, 10 July 2003 5:43 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      GMD for maps
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: GMD for maps
> Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 14:21:30 -0500 (CDT)
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> I have an embarrassingly elementary map cataloging question.
>
> Most large map libraries (including, I believe, LC) do not use the
> theoretically correct GMD "$h[cartographic material]" in map records.
> When
> one encounters a GMD in map records on OCLC, it's usually from a smaller
> library or else in an older record (and it's "$h[map]"). I'd be very
> grateful if someone could provide a succinct history of the use/non-use
> of
> the GMD in map records (or refer me to a good source of information on
> this).
>
> Also, I notice that, among those libraries that do use a GMD for
> cartographic materials, some put a period before the GMD in records with
> a
> 245 consisting entirely of an a subfield, some after. Surely there's a
> "right" place for this period--can anyone tell me where it is?
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Chris Winters
> Bibliographer for Anthropology, Geography, and Maps
> University of Chicago Library
>