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Subject:        Re: Map cataloging questions from beginning catalogers
Date:   Wed, 7 Oct 2009 20:41:59 -0400
From:   PAIGE G ANDREW <[log in to unmask]>
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Ken is absolutely correct, and my error in using "C2" as the subject
code (in fact, I had worked with a couple of topographic maps earlier
today and I think that was just stuck in my head). The correct subject
code for geology is "C5".

Paige

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    Subject:        RE: Map cataloging questions from beginning catalogers
    Date:   Wed, 7 Oct 2009 17:08:17 -0400
    From:   Grabach, Kenneth A. Mr. <[log in to unmask]>
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    That scale, which is again a brief version (remove the last three
    zeroes), goes in place of the date as you would use for a single sheet
    map, or single map in XX sheets.
    She showed it to you like this:
    G5701
     .C2
    s1500
     .U5

    Only difference I would make is that the subject cutter for a geologic map is
    .C5.  In map call numbers, date or series scale designation is always part of
    the subject (before $b in 050 or 090), while the author cutter, or
    title cutter, is in $b.

    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: Map cataloging questions from beginning catalogers
    Date:   Wed, 7 Oct 2009 15:51:23 -0400
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    Thank you!  Does the scale go before or after the author cutter number?

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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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        Maps-L Moderator wrote:

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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,

             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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Paige Andrew
Maps Cataloging Librarian
Pennsylvania State University