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Subject: RE: [Fwd: National Atlas of India]
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 08:50:22 +1100
From: "Maura O'Connor" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "'Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum'" <[log in to unmask]>

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Mark
The NLA has a large collection of this material.  Some of it is treated
as
an atlas and will be catalogued so.  Others will have individual sheet
records.  If you go into our catalogue at : www.nla.gov.au, select
Catalogue
and go from there that may assist you.  I have not looked myself to see
what
has been done.
Yours sincerely
Maura O'Connor
Map Curator
National Library of Australia
CANBERRA   ACT  2617
AUSTRALIA
Phone : 61 2 6262 1280
Fax : 61 2 6262 1653
Email : [log in to unmask]



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> Subject: National Atlas of India
> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:05:32 -0500
> From: "Mark A. Thomas" <[log in to unmask]>
> Organization: Perkins Library, Duke University
> To: "MAPS-L" <[log in to unmask]>
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> We receive a lot of maps from South Asia sent to us by LC's office in
> New Delhi, obtained by our South Asian bibliographer. I've gotten a lot
> of sheets recently from India's National Atlas and Thematic Mapping
> Organisation (NATMO). Many of these are loose sheets of the National
> Atlas, dating from the 1990's. We have a set of loose sheets of the
> National Atlas already cataloged as a set (using OCLC 10195872).
> According to GeoKatalog, this set was completed in 1988. These new
> sheets represent the revised ed.
>
> I welcome any direction to information on the publishing history of the
> revised editions of these sheets (e.g., a listing of the sheet numbers
> with titles; sheets recently published by NATMO in the National Atlas
> "style" but not part of the atlas; etc.).  I just want some
> documentation.
>
> Some details:
>
> 1. The sheet number for a certain sheet usually doesn't match the number
> for the earlier edition of that sheet.  Therefore, we can't just
> interfile them with the older sheets and get away with a note in the bib
> record saying "various editions of some sheets" or whatever.  However,
> I'm surprised there isn't a separate set record in OCLC (not that I can
> find) for the revised edition. What are other places doing?
>
> Of course, we can just create an original record for the revised
> edition, and probably will, or we can catalog each sheet separtely, but
> I thought I might be missing something. (Incidently, I don't catalog
> them myself, but want to have an intelligent discussion with the
> cataloger.)  Also, some of the new sheets are topics that weren't
> included in the original set.
>
> Example: "Health," plate 27 in the new batch is dated 1995 and says
> "first edition." But there was "Health" sheet as plate 236 in the
> National Atlas we already have. Says "first edition, 1972." I admit that
> the style of display is different on the two maps, but something still
> doesn't jive to me.
>
> 2. Half the sheets we've received don't have a sheet number or running
> title.  Are these not part of the bound edition that I presume exists?
> Or, are they part of it but our individual sheets are sort of
> preliminary offprints that don't have all the stuff in the margin?
>
> Example: "Railways" was sheet 150 dated 1975 ("first edition") but we
> recently got an unnumbered "Railways" with the same basic design saying
> "first edition 1962, second edition 1987, third edition 1999." So I
> guess this is clearly a one-off not intended to be part of the atlas per
> se.
>
> My understanding from our South Asian bibiliographer is that we have
> some sort of standing order for material from NATMO, and I don't have
> any documentation (although he's looking into it).
>
> Thanks,
>         Mark
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Mark Thomas / [log in to unmask] / 919-660-5853, fax:919-684-2855
> Economics, Geology, Geography Bibliographer
> Map and GIS Librarian / Public Documents and Maps Department
> 025 Perkins Library / Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0177
>