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Subject:        Re: [MAPS-L] Map cataloging questions from beginning catalogers
Date:   Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:47:12 -0500
From:   Susan Moore <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject:        Map cataloging questions from beginning catalogers
> Date:   Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:35:29 -0400
> From:   Ava Iuliano <[log in to unmask]>
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> Hello everyone,
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>   I am a rookie cataloger that is currently working on cataloging maps.  I
> am working with another beginning cataloger and we've run across an item
> that is causing us both some confusion.  The map is a large UNESCO map
> produced in a couple of different editions, even though the individual
> sheets form one single map (50 sheets making up one single HUGE map).  The
> English title is 'International Geological Map of Europe and the
> Mediterranean Regions 1:1500000" with parallel titles in French and German.
> The date range is from 1964-2000.  In creating a record for this item (our
> OCLC searches have produced only bare-bones records in German that often
> only describe a single sheet or Australian records for only a partial
> holding), how do we delineate that it is a single item in multiple
> editions?
> How would you create the record for this particular item?

Welcome to the world of map cataloging!

It isn't unusual for items like this to have sheets with different
edition statements. What I usually do is add a 500 note "Sheets in
various editions" to explain the situation.

Since you do have several different editions, I'd be incline to catalog
this as a map series, rather than a single map. OCLC's Bibliographic
Format and Standards defines a map series as "a number of related but
physically separate and bibliographically distinct cartographic units
intended by the producers or issuing bodies to form a single group."
Since the sheets can be cataloged separately, I think what you have
matches the definition. If you do decide to catalog this as a map
series, the CrTp in the fixed field needs to be a "b". Other than that
and putting the scale in as part of the call number, you would catalog
it much as you would a single map.

Feel free to contact me if you have further questions.

Susan Moore
Rod Library
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA  50613
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