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Subject: RE: GIS/mapping at Kew (Royal Botanic Gardens - not TNA)
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:42:51 -0400
From: Grabach, Kenneth A. Mr. <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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Francis,
First, thank you for sharing the information about this article, and the GIS projects at Kew. The big project for Madagascar is very interesting.
The problem was dual in nature. I could not locate a library receiving the current version of the title. Several seem to have received it before 1994. But the current version of WorldCat is far less user-friendly than earlier versions, and it was difficult to locate the current iteration of the magazine. I was flummoxed by the changes in title, and by similar titles from the Royal Gardens at Kew, such as the Bulletin, and Kew Scientist.
Then, the ISSN number which worked fine in WorldCat, retrieved another title in my regional shared catalog, not at all related to the Gardens at Kew or their activities.
You of course, are not responsible for the vagaries of serials cataloging, which has mysteries not revealed to us mere map catalogers. Every iteration of title or of publisher or responsible organization requires a new record. In too many instances with various versions of this publication, more than one institution has created a new record, of which they are the sole holder! This led to further frustrations, and a failure to persevere on my part until I found the definitive record for the current iteration of the title. I had given up after several pages, even when I used the ISSN number. (N.B. If anyone involved with OCLC serials cataloging reads this, infer an urgent plea for database clean-up with this magazine).
I am deeply interested in any new items regarding vegetation geography and vegetation mapping. So the information about this article caught my attention.
Ken Grabach<[log in to unmask]>
Maps Librarian Phone: 513-529-1726
Miami University Libraries
Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA
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Subject: Re: GIS/mapping at Kew (Royal Botanic Gardens - not TNA)
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Subject: RE: GIS/mapping at Kew (Royal Botanic Gardens - not TNA)
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:33:39 +0100
From: Francis Herbert<[log in to unmask]>
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Ken (and others who may be mystified):
I cited all details except the price (£3.95) from a personal copy -
received as a fully paid-up (currently until January 2011) 'Premier
Friend' of the Kew Foundation - next to my laptop keyboard. After
morning black coffee, and thus fully awake. What more could I have done?:)
Francis (who was, and still is, accustomed to map cataloguing, citing
references, or bibliography compilation - be they à la British Standards
Institution, IFLA, or MARC, or 'Chicago Style').
As is said in legal circles (at least in Olde Englande): "I rest my
case, m'lud"
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Subject: Re: GIS/mapping at Kew (Royal Botanic Gardens - not TNA)
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Subject: RE: GIS/mapping at Kew (Royal Botanic Gardens - not TNA)
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:00:41 -0400
From: Grabach, Kenneth A. Mr.<[log in to unmask]>
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Is the citation for this article correct? I cannot find a match for the
periodical title, Kew Magazine, and the volume # and year. It seems the
magazine was incorporated into Curtis's Botanical Magazine in 1994-1995.
That title continues, but the volume number doesn't match. Kew Scientist
presents an interesting spread on Year of Biodiversity and Kew's
involvement. And there is Kew Bulletin, which has a different article on
the pages, which overlap somewhat with the citation below.
WorldCat doesn't provide anything that seems useful to assist with an
ILL submission.
Anything that can shed light on this would be greatly appreciated.
Ken Grabach<[log in to unmask]>
Maps Librarian Phone: 513-529-1726
Miami University Libraries
Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA
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Subject: GIS/mapping at Kew (Royal Botanic Gardens - not TNA)
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Subject: GIS/mapping at Kew (Royal Botanic Gardens - not TNA)
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:51:13 +0100
From: Francis Herbert<[log in to unmask]>
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Although others may be aware of it, perhaps on other discussion lists
during this present International Year of Biodiversity, I have been
remiss in mentioning the following article -
'All mapped out', by Christopher Stocks, in /Kew// magazine/ (Kew,
Surrey : Royal Botanic Gardens, ISSN 0961-4141), Spring 2010, *68*,
22-27 : col. ill.
The intro begins: "Christopher Stocks ['a freelance journalist and
author of /Forgotten Fruits/ (Random House)'] meets Kew's GIS team, who
create an amazing array of high-tech maps, full of comparative
information, to help Kew's botanists locate and conserve endangered
plants around the world[.]"
Special attention is given to Madagascar and a 'prediction map of
/Dypsis decipiens/ [bottle palm] . . . based on the plant's ecological
preferences'
FH (London, England)
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