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Re: map cataloging subject help needed
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Subject:        RE: map cataloging subject help needed
Date:   Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:59:34 -0500
From:   Grabach, Kenneth A. Mr. <[log in to unmask]>
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A quick look at LC Subject Headings in Classweb gives a few possibilities.  As you suggest, Surveying is broad, but it is what the control points are part of.  Another is Geodesy (used for geodetic surveys).  There is also Triangulation, and looking there gives some other terms, including Triangulation signal towers.  But Bench-marks are types of control points, so I wouldn't rule that one out.

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


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Subject:        map cataloging subject help needed
Date:   Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:23:51 -0700
From:   Laura E Wright <[log in to unmask]>
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I am cataloging a map that shows survey control points (title:
University of Colorado at Boulder survey control diagram), and I am
having a hard time coming up with any relevant subject headings. I have,
so far, determined that "Bench-marks" (which is an established heading)
are not the same as control points. The only valid subject I can come up
with is "Surveying" - but that doesn't seem particularly useful.

I have tried searching OCLC for similar maps, but using keywords
"survey" and "control" brings up all the USGS topos.

Does anyone have any similar maps? Or enough surveying knowledge to know
of any better headings?

Thanks,

Laura

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Laura Wright
Map Library, University of Colorado at Boulder
184 UCB Boulder, CO 80309

(303) 735-3111
fax: (303) 735-4879

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