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Subject:        Re: Question on cataloging what I think are old blackline prints
Date:   Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:29:42 -0400
From:   Paige Andrew <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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We catalog print-on-demand maps (scanned from a digital source and
then either given away or sold, all via a website most usually) as
original items.

Paige

At 01:19 PM 3/30/2010, Angie Cope wrote:
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>Subject:        RE: Re: Question on cataloging what I think are old blackline
>prints
>Date:   Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:02:07 -0500
>From:   Harry Davis <[log in to unmask]>
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>Let me add a related map reproduction question: how do you catalog
>
>"printed-on-demand" items (assuming you know that to be the case)?
>
>Harry Davis -- Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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>Subject:        RE: Question on cataloging what I think are old
>blackline prints
>Date:   Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:46:22 -0500
>From:   Harry Davis <[log in to unmask]>
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>In response to this message exchange, our map cataloger comments as
>follows:
>
>This brings up a good question. How do you handle cataloging a
>reproduction if you don't know the type of reproduction? Are we to use
>"photocopy" as a generic term to describe a reproduction, even if it is
>not *technically* a "photographed copy"?
>
>Related to this, we here highly recommend ARCHITECTURAL
>PHOTOREPRODUCTIONS - A MANUAL FOR IDENTIFICATION AND CARE, by Eleonore
>Kissel and Erin Vigneau, 2nd edition published 2009 by Oak Knoll Press
>and the New York Botanical Garden.  This book gives separate
>consideration to photoreproductions and photomechanical reproductions.
>Included is a very useful flowchart to determine types of
>photoreproductions (aniline prints, blueprints, diazotypes. sepia diazo
>prints, etc.)  Although written for architectural print curators, it is
>very adaptable to the needs of map catalogers.
>
>Harry Davis
>Map Librarian
>Southern Illinois University Carbondale
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject:        Question on cataloging what I think are old blackline
>prints
>Date:   Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:58:17 -0500
>From:   Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]>
>Organization:   American Geographical Society Library
>To:     Maps-L <[log in to unmask]>
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>I don't know what the reproduction method is called but in terms of
>cataloging ... it's an uncolored, negative photocopy (light or white
>lines on dark blue or black background.)
>
>007  $a a $b j $d a $e a $f z $g b $h b
>300 1 map : $b photocopy ; $c 50 x 60 cm.
>500 Negative.
>
>That's from Paige's book on cataloging sheet maps.
>
>Angie
>AGSL
>UW Milwaukee Libraries
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject:        Question on cataloging what I think are old blackline
>prints
>Date:   Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:29:51 -0500
>From:   Susan Moore <[log in to unmask]>
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>Dear collective wisdom:
>
>I'm cataloging a group of maps from the Iowa State Planning Board from
>the late 1920s to mid 1930s. They look to be blackline prints but there
>are several that look like negatives, though they're on paper. I haven't
>seen anything else like this and was wondering if anyone else has
>encountered something like this.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Susan Moore
>University of Northern Iowa
>Cedar Falls, IA  50613
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