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Subject: Re: [MapHist] Harvard Map Cataloging Project
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 16:26:59 -0900
From: Dee Longenbaugh <[log in to unmask]>

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>Somehow I am thinking that the date today might have something to do
>with the breaking of duplicate atlases at Harvard.
        Is this a flat assertion?
        Dee
the doubter

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>After several years of discussing the possibilities, we are pleased
>to announce that the Harvard Map Collection has begun to catalog its
>antiquarian map collection. This weekend (April 2-3) we will be
>remodeling the interior of the Map Collection to create a more
>efficient processing area so that we can have more room to review
>and catalog the maps. We will, of course, concentrate our cataloging
>efforts initially on the Boston and New England regions. Our plans
>are to quickly move into the America's, North America, and colonial
>America collections as well. Initial sampling for some of these maps
>reveals that we will be able to take advantage of the excellent
>cataloging already completed at the Library of Congress and other
>research library institutions.
>
>As with any such project, it is inevitable that duplicates will be
>identified. We are also finding many duplicates between our atlas
>collection and those of the flat map collection. Since so many of
>the atlases are difficult to use and our patrons always want the
>area usually found in the "gutter" it is had been decided that these
>maps would be far more valuable to our users if they were flat.
>Since we have no intention of selling the atlases, thereby the atlas
>value is inconsequential, it will be far easier to rid ourselves of
>the limits of those volumes. Therefore, it will be easier to
>"debind" and catalog them as flat maps and they are far easier to
>copy that way as well.
>
>Since we have begun our cataloging this seems an appropos time to
>complete two projects at the same time and make our collection more
>accessible and much easier for us to file. We look forward to
>keeping everyone aware of our progress.
>
>David Cobb
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