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Subject: RE: KAPPA Map Group LLC - umbrella - map publishing
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:22:26 -0400
From: Grabach, Kenneth A. Mr. <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>

As a cataloger, I really see no challenge at all.  It is like with
description of anything else.  If someone is named as a creator, they
are designated an author.  If someone is named as an editor, they are
designated as an "added author".  In the map world, corporate entities
are usually the creators, or have co-creatorship when names of
individuals are given.  In the case of Seeger or GM Johnson as a
co-creator with the publisher, both are given as authoring entities.
Where GM Johnson is named without other entities, then that is easy-peasy.

I see this sort of thing coming up when I field queries about citation.
  "What do I do if there is no author?" List it by date and title of the
work.  "What do I do if there is more than one author?" List it by
authors' names in the order they are named in the work.  Same for a map.
  If there is more than one entity named, the one named most prominently
gets primary responsibility, while the other(s) get added author entries.

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


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From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope, American
Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 12:12 PM
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Subject: Re: KAPPA Map Group LLC - umbrella - map publishing

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Subject: Re: KAPPA Map Group LLC - umbrella - map publishing
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:07:42 -0400
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On Mar 14 2012 09:27 am, Angie Cope, American Geographical Society
Library, UW Milwaukee wrote:

>
> There is another company that Russell did not mention, G.M Johnson,
> based in British Columbia, but separate from ITMB.  They seem to be
> expanding their line, and look to have acquired some Universal series,
> such as a Michigan regional series, and a Wisconsin series.  They may
> have acquired some that Rand McNally is no longer publishing.  So
> another maps hub is in the Vancouver area of BC.
>

Johnson is a cartography firm that has done some self-publishing. The
artwork he "got back" was probably his to begin with. This is yet
another wrinkle for you cataloguers. How to deal with companies like
Seeger and Johnson who both publish under their own label and under
other publishers' labels while consistently maintaining their own
copyright. It is a tangled web we weave...

Nat Case
Hedberg Maps
http://www.hedbergmaps.com
(don't forget us!)