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Subject: Re: Map retrocon
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 15:40:01 -0500
From: Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee
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Organization: American Geographical Society Library
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Paige, do you all have separate holding and item records for each quad
or separate bibliographic, holding and item records? I think how we
interpret "sheet level cataloging" needs to be clarified.

Thanks.

Angie
AGSL

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Subject: Re: Map retrocon
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 16:30:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Paige G Andrew <[log in to unmask]>
To: Air Photo Maps, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>


Merry,

Responding from a fellow land grant institution (Penn State) since you
requested that!

In the mid-1990s then Head of our collection, Melissa Lamont (hi
Melissa!) and I launched a big project to catalog our 7.5-minute topo
collection, which has complete U.S. geographic coverage and most
editions of each sheet. And we wrote an article detailing what we did,
so here is the citation for that:

Andrew and Lamont. "Bending the Rules: Creatively Adapting Library
Systems to Automate the Map Collection". Technical Services Quarterly,
Vol. 15, No. 3 (1998), pp. 35-48

If you can't put your hands on the journal send me a fax number and I'll
fax a copy of the article to you.

Generally, most places have cataloged their own state to the sheet
level, including us, and then tackled other states at a different level,
usually a bib. record for the state only. Others have cataloging and
classified for the United States as a whole using one record, and
relying on the alphabetical filing arrangement in the drawers to take
care of the rest of access.

Beyond the USGS 7.5-minute topos, we have actively been itemizing all
sheets in map sets or series over the years and have a pretty good
handle on basic sheet-level information throughout the collection. That
is to say, we create a single record for the set or series and then
input item records for each sheet that falls under that title (call
number w/sheet number/name/similar, barcode, location -- all of which is
visible to the patron when they find the record for the title in our
OPAC). We are almost done with our entire collection in this manner.

Hope this helps!

Paige

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From: "Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee"
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Subject: Map retrocon

-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        Map retrocon
Date:   Thu, 23 May 2013 15:56:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Merry Bower <[log in to unmask]>
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We are in the early stages of a map retrocon project and are wishing to
know how others approach the cataloging granularity for sheet maps. Are
folks cataloging federal depository maps (USGS, etc.) at the quadrangle
level? What are your best practices? We are especially interested in the
map cataloging practices of other land grant institutions. Thanks,

Merry

Merry Bower
Metadata Librarian
Metadata & Preservation Dept.
K-State Libraries
509 Hale Library
Manhattan, KS 66506-1200
voice mail: (785) 532-7435
fax: (785) 532-7644
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