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Subject:        Re: [Fwd: Harvard Map Cataloging Project]
Date:   Thu, 01 Apr 2004 16:07:40 -0500
From:   Paige Andrew <[log in to unmask]>




David:

Fantastic! This is GREAT news and I know many people at many other
institutions will benefit from the bibliographic records created as
originals down the road. I wish you the best of luck on this project and
know I'm always available to answer cataloging questions!

Paige

At 01:42 PM 4/1/2004 -0500, you wrote:

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> Subject: Harvard Map Cataloging Project
> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:52:59 -0500
> From: David Cobb <[log in to unmask]>
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> Dear Colleagues -
>
> After several years of discussing the possibilities, we are pleased to
> announce that the Harvard Map Collection has begun to catalog its
> antiquarian map collection. This weekend (April 2-3) we will be remodeling
> the interior of the Map Collection to create a more efficient processing
> area so that we can have more room to review and catalog the maps. We
> will,
> of course, concentrate our cataloging efforts initially on the Boston and
> New England regions. Our plans are to quickly move into the America's,
> North America, and colonial America collections as well. Initial sampling
> for some of these maps reveals that we will be able to take advantage of
> the excellent cataloging already completed at the Library of Congress and
> other research library institutions.
>
> As with any such project, it is inevitable that duplicates will be
> identified. We are also finding many duplicates between our atlas
> collection and those of the flat map collection. Since so many of the
> atlases are difficult to use and our patrons always want the area usually
> found in the "gutter" it is had been decided that these maps would be far
> more valuable to our users if they were flat. Since we have no
> intention of
> selling the atlases, thereby the atlas value is inconsequential, it
> will be
> far easier to rid ourselves of the limits of those volumes. Therefore, it
> will be easier to "debind" and catalog them as flat maps and they are far
> easier to copy that way as well.
>
> Since we have begun our cataloging this seems an appropos time to complete
> two projects at the same time and make our collection more accessible and
> much easier for us to file. We look forward to keeping everyone aware of
> our progress.
>
> David Cobb
>
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