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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 11:27:57 -0500
From: nkandoian <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: a subject cataloging question
 
     I'm wondering if map catalogers can tell me about practices in their
     libraries in regard to the use of free-floating subdivisions for maps.
      Are some subdivisions (e.g. Early works to 1800) used only after one
     heading even if they apply to all subject headings, to save on typing
     or avoid repetition, on the theory that certain kinds of searching
     (keyword or limiting) will allow  retrieval of the records in any
     case?  For some free-floaters that are also subject headings (e.g.
     Maps, Manuscript; Maps--Facsimiles; Maps, Pictorial), do some
     libraries use these only once in a record as a subject heading, rather
     than repeatedly as a subheading to each heading to which they can
     properly be attached?  I am asking not only about the proper way to
     handle these headings, but also about the local practices that
     libraries may employ, which may vary from the rules.  And how have
     these variant practices come about?
 
     For example, for a pre-1800 manuscript chart of Delaware Bay showing
     also the Jersey shore, might some libraries use headings such as the
     following:
 
     Nautical charts--Delaware Bay (Del. and N.J.).
     Coasts--Delaware--Maps.
     Coasts--New Jersey--Maps.
     Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800.
 
     rather than:
 
     Delaware Bay (Del. and N.J.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800.
     Nautical charts--Delaware Bay (Del. and N.J.)--Early works to 1800.
     Coasts--Delaware--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800.
     Coasts--New Jersey--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800.  ?
 
     Was there some discussion related to this issue at recent MAGERT
     meetings, in the context of form and genre terms for maps, and use of
     the 655 versus subfield v?
 
     Your comments about your local practices will be appreciated.  Please
     respond to the list unless you prefer some level of confidentiality.
 
 
     Nancy Kandoian
     NYPL Map Division
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