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Subject: Roman or Arabic numbers?
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005
From: Philip Hoehn <[log in to unmask]>
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I'm about to catalog some 25 online scans of maps covering various parts
of the U.S.  They appear in an 1891-1895 atlas.  The maps have only the
generic title: General topographic map sheet I, II, III, etc.

A few of these are in OCLC.  Some of those records retain the Roman
numerals while others have converted the sheet numbers to Arabic.  I
couldn't see any specific instructions covering this situation in AACR2
or _Cartographic Materials_.  Rules covering tangential matters
unfortunately seem to point in both directions.

Any recommendations on which it should be?

General topographic map. /n Sheet III  /h [electronic resource]  or

General topographic map. /n Sheet 3  /h [electronic resource]


Philip Hoehn, Map Librarian
San Francisco -- [log in to unmask]
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