-------- Original Message -------- 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: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Harvard Map Cataloging Project > Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:52:59 -0500 > From: David Cobb <[log in to unmask]> > > > ------------------ > > 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 > > *************************************************************************** > David A. Cobb Tel. 617.495.2417 > Harvard Map Collection FAX 617.496.0440 > Harvard College Library Email: > [log in to unmask] > Cambridge, MA 02138 > HTTP://hcl.harvard.edu/maps <http://hcl.harvard.edu/maps> > ************************** VERITAS > ****************************************