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Hi, Janet:
>How many of your institutions are working on creating metadata of
>your holdings?
 
"Metadata" = data about data.  If a map in our collection is data,
then a cataloging record for that map is metadata.  If that falls in
what you're inquiring about, our collection has had metadata for its
holdings starting in 1970 (in the card catalog) and now in the OPAC
(retrospective conversion of all records except USGS topos and DMA
nauticals was recently completed).
 
>Who is doing it?
Right now, me.
 
> Is it happening in your map collection?  Cataloging department?
I'm officially in the cataloging dept.
 
>Our gov't docs dept. simply assigns a sudoc # and enters into a
>database of cd holdings.  Do you think that will be the norm?
 
Now if cdrom and other digital data is what you were asking about,
yes, we catalog these as well, here in cataloging.--Not just "mark
and park" but look for real records in OCLC.
 
Ken Rockwell
"Just another map librarian" at
Marriott Library
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
 
"Without Geography--you're NOWHERE!"