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Subject: New article on Early Printed Atlases
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 16:37:21 -0600 (MDT)
From: Laurence S. Creider <[log in to unmask]>
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I have just read and highly recommend an article in the Journal of Map and
Geography Libraries v. 7 (2011): 184-210):

"Early Printed Atlases: Shaping Plato's 'Forms' into Bibliographic
Descriptions" by Jan Smits and Todd Fell.

The article discusses the problems with cataloging early atlases, which
may never have existed as an "ideal" form, deviations from which may be
recorded in a cataloging description.  The article raises interesting
questions that need to be pursued about the function of "ideal copy" in
cataloging and the relationship of manifestation and item in the FRBR
framework.

Todd is chair of the editorial group working on Descriptive Cataloging of
Rare Materials (Cartographic).

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Laurence S. Creider
Special Collections Librarian
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM  88003
Work: 575-646-7227
Fax: 575-646-7477
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