-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Harvard Map Cataloging Project Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 10:11:24 -0500 From: David Cobb <[log in to unmask]> ------------------ Dear Colleagues - Alright, the April 1st "Tom-Foolery" is over. I appreciated many of your suggestions and some willingness to trade for our atlas duplicates. To be serious for just a moment - yes, we are beginning a project to catalog our antiquarian maps and we will begin with the America's. We are excited about discovering what's in our collection as much as anyone else. Our cataloging reflects the various practices used since 1818 and, with the assistance and publications from many of you, map cataloging now has many more sources to research mapmakers, engravers, cataloging dates, cataloging states, and so many other bits of information. Sad for some, but our atlases will remain intact. As an aside, we have just completed the rehousing (reboxing) of all of our vellum bound atlases. Fortunately, we also have many cartobibliographies that more easily lead us to the contents of many of these atlases so it will be our antiquarian sheet map collection that will be our priority which will keep us busy for several years to come. Just wait and see --------------------- 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 ************************** VERITAS ****************************************