At UWM Libraries the maps that are included in the digital collection (http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/digilib/maps/index.html) all have been cataloged. The relevant MARC information is transfered into corresponding ContentDM metadata fields. ContentDM assigns a unique url to every image and that is then put into a MARC 856 field with a corresponding 530 note "Also available on the Internet." An additional holding record is added to point users to the Internet link. You can see an example of this by searching in our online catalog - PantherCat - here: https://millib.wisconsin.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First Try this title: Justus Perthes’ Wandkarte von Afrika zur Darstellung der Bodenbedeckung When you're at the MARC record you can select the button "staff view" to see the MARC fields and data. The image - or a thumbnail image - is not part of the catalog record but I wish they were. I was just thinking about checking with our IT people to see if something like that is possible in our system. We also create a holding record for the scan itself. This is a rule established way back in 2003. It seems the way cataloging rules are loosening up we could create an entirely separate record for the scanned tif - but in my old fashioned mind it still seems to make sense to keep all three versions of the same item together on one record. With that being said, we did create OCLC records for all of our ContentDM digital map records so when users search WorldCat for some of our maps - they'll find our holdings for both the print record and the digital map being hosted on our ContentDM site record. The logic is the more opportunities a person searching has to 'hit' or find material - the more access and use. Hope this helps and good luck! -Angie Angie Cope, Senior Academic Librarian American Geographical Society Library UW Milwaukee Libraries 2311 E. Hartford Avenue Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201 http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/AGSL/index.html Hours: M-F 8:00am-4:30pm [log in to unmask] (414)229-6282 / (800)558-8993 (US TOLL FREE) / (414)229-3624 (FAX) 43°03'8"N 87°57'21"W -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Map images through an online catalog Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:13:46 -0500 From: Paige Andrew <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] References: <[log in to unmask]> Hi Bob! Here at PSU, which is a Sirsi institution, we have done a handful of projects linking a bib. record to a map image, particularly for our Earth & Mineral Sciences Library's map collection. On other occasions we are scanning map images and putting them up on our website under digital collections, but creating metadata for each image and not linking directly from records in the OPAC. Still, on other occasions we create a bib. record for a specific website with groups of maps, or a single map or atlas. So, we haven't standardized things yet here, and I think that is due more to the question of whether or not to do everything one way, and whether that way is through bib. records in the OPAC. Personally, I see sharing information about digital cart. materials being done in different manners as being a good thing because underlying the decisions are differing needs and purposed for the images involved. Paige At 10:00 AM 2/20/2009, you wrote: >-------- Original Message -------- >Subject: Map images through an online catalog >Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:37:41 -0500 >From: Bob Kibbee <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >References: <[log in to unmask]> > >Hi, > >Are any map librarians linking to their own map image database from >a Voyager catalog or from WorldCat Local? We do this for the David >Rumsey maps, but I wonder if anyone is linking from a map record in >their OPAC to the specific individual image in their own database of >map images. > >Any information would be great. And in fact linking strategies from >any of the standard OPACs would be interesting. > >Bob > > >Bob Kibbee >Map & GIS Librarian >Map and Geospatial Information Collection >B17 Olin Library, Cornell University >Ithaca, New York 14853-5301 >voice 607-255-9566 / fax 607-255-3609