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>Date: Thu, 15 Oct 98 10:54:57 -0400
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>Subject: Early cartographic materials
 
 
This is in response to the email posted to MAPS-L from Ann Hodges in which
she asked if there was any interest in a cataloguing tool for rare maps.
 
 There is already a group working on this project.  A subcommittee of the
Anglo-American Cataloguing Committee for Cartographic Materials  (AACCCM)
has been formed work on rules for early cartographic materials.   I am
chair of that subcommittee.
 
AACCCM is currently working on a second edition of "Cartographic materials:
 a manual of interpretation for AACR2" , which we hope will be out sometime
in late 1999 or early 2000.   In the process, the subcommittee is examining
the "Descriptive cataloging of rare books" for relevant rules and is
altering them as needed to suit cartographic materials.  In addition, we
are working on guidelines that are unique to early maps and therefore would
not appear in "Descriptive cataloging".
 
We in the subcommittee (myself, Francis Herbert of the Royal Geographical
Society Library, and Dorothy Prescott from Australia) would certainly
welcome any ideas, contribution, and assistance from anyone who has
experience in cataloguing rare maps.
 
Velma Parker
 
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Velma Parker, National Archives of Canada, 344 Wellington Street, Ottawa,
ON, Canada K1A 0N3
(613)996-7611  FAX: (613)995-6575 EMAIL:[log in to unmask]
 
 
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Velma Parker, National Archives of Canada, 344 Wellington Street, Ottawa,
ON, Canada K1A 0N3
(613)996-7611  FAX: (613)995-6575 EMAIL:[log in to unmask]
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