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>From: Philip Hoehn <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: cataloging question <fwd>
 
 
I'd prefer:
 
1 ms. map on 12 sheets in the 300 (rather than ... : 
manuscript).
 
Then either a simple note describing arrangement, e.g.
 
Sheets arranged left to right in three rows:  top row 
(sheets 1-4), middle row (sheets 5-8), bottom row (sheets 
9-12).  Or make an index map and record this in a 500 note 
(do not make a separate catalog record for it).  If this 
were a printed map for which you were making an index I'd 
put it in a 590 note, since it would pertain to your 
library's copy only (with an ms. map, you're it).
  Phil 
 
 
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> >Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 07:14:22
> >From: John Buelow <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: cataloging question
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> I have a map which I'm cataloging as "1 map on 12 sheets : manuscript."
> Because it's a couple hundred years old, bears no titling or compass roses,
> shows absolutely nothing besides watercourses and survey tracts and names
> very few of either, it was difficult to decide how to put it together.
> Therefore I'd like to save library readers some time by providing
> coordinate and orientation information for each sheet.  Something like
> 
> Sheet 1:  Covers W 73ø02'--W 73ø23'/N 41ø06'--N 40ø55'.  Long Pond lies at
> the northern edge of the sheet.
> 
> 
> There are at least three ways of doing this; I'd like reasons for
> preferring one over the others.  Here are the alternatives--
> 
> 
> (1) Describe the coordinates and orientation of all 12 sheets in a contents
> note.
> 
> (3) Stuff this same information into MARC holdings fields for the
> individual sheets.
> 
> (2) Leave this information out of the record, but draw a small index map,
> give it an inventory number and a catalog record, and file it together with
> the 12 sheets.  Cite this index map in a local note on the main
> bibliographic record.
> 
> 
> I'd like comments from those who use libraries not only from catalog
> librarians.  Which would be the easier system to use?
> 
> 
> John Buelow
> 
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>From: April Carlucci    
>Subject:Re: cataloging question <fwd>
 
I'd go with option 3, as I suppose you have already done something 
   along these lines while sorting out the sheets. It would also save 
   the considerable time it would take to figure out the lat/long on 
   12 sheets of a manuscript map, unless you've done that already. It 
   depends on how much time you've got to devote to this one record! 
   But option 3 is perfectly acceptable, and I've seen it done often.
   
   April
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>From: william j thornton <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: cataloging question <fwd>
 
 
For ease of use I prefer alternative 3, an index map.