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Subject:        Re: map cataloging question re: date of publication vs. date
of situation
Date:   Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:37:09 -0500
From:   Joel Kovarsky <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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On 11/9/2012 4:20 PM, Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library,
UW Milwaukee wrote:
> Not sure I completely agree.

Here is a bit of online discussion, last updated 2009, mostly siding
with the "date of situation," but allowing for both:
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~dbertuca/maps/cat/schedule_g.html and
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/class_g.pdf . From that latter link (LC):

     "          The date in a map call number is always the date of the
     situation, except when a history (S+) cutter has been used, in which
     case the date in the call number is the date of publication."
     (footnote 1).

                     Joel Kovarsky