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Subject: RE: National Atlas of India
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 11:55:52 -0400
From: Mark A. Thomas <[log in to unmask]>
To: 'Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum' <[log in to unmask]>

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We have loose sheets. We have a majority of the "first edition" (1960s
to 1980s vintage, mostly), and just a few so far of the "second
edition."

It's important to realize that the numbers in the two editions don't
relate. An update of the same thematic map may be at a different number
than it was previously. I guess this is pretty obvious, but when we
first started getting them, since they don't boldly proclaim "revised
edition" or anything like that they looked like we could just interfile,
and then we found they were updates of sheets we already had. Or maybe a
new thematic sheet, but with a number that was used for something else
earlier.

The listing of sheets at the NATMO web site (the one that isn't
available except from the archive site) seem to match the older edition
of loose sheets, not the ones we've been getting the last several years.
You can also get that listing in the GeoKatalog loose-leave service from
the ILH people in Germany.

Ours aren't individually cataloged (probably a mistake). We've created a
second set record for what seem to be part of the "second edition"
(basically, anything we get nowadays).  Our South Asian bibliographer
gets these through a program with LC's New Delhi office, and we sort of
take what they can get.

There are also some loose sheets done by NATMO that are unnumbered, but
in the National Atlas style.  Some of these will be the same themes that
had been published with numbers in the "first edition."  The fine print
at the bottom in some cases might say "first edition" even though we
have essentially the same map printed many years earlier in our
collection. I guess they mean "first unnumbered edition."  :-) Those
fine print edition statements may also say "second" or "third edition"
when it's the only one we seem to have.  Basically, they just confuse
the issue.  We've been cataloging the unnumbered sheets individually.

--Mark
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Mark Thomas / [log in to unmask] / 919-660-5853, fax:919-684-2855
Economics, Geology, Geography Bibliographer
Map and GIS Librarian / Public Documents and Maps Department
025 Perkins Library / Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0177