-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Map retrocon Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 15:41:59 -0500 From: Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee <[log in to unmask]> Organization: American Geographical Society Library To: Maps-L <[log in to unmask]> I mean for your Pennsylvania quads ... -a- -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Map retrocon Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 15:40:01 -0500 From: Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee <[log in to unmask]> Organization: American Geographical Society Library To: Maps-L <[log in to unmask]> Paige, do you all have separate holding and item records for each quad or separate bibliographic, holding and item records? I think how we interpret "sheet level cataloging" needs to be clarified. Thanks. Angie AGSL -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Map retrocon Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 16:30:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Paige G Andrew <[log in to unmask]> To: Air Photo Maps, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]> Merry, Responding from a fellow land grant institution (Penn State) since you requested that! In the mid-1990s then Head of our collection, Melissa Lamont (hi Melissa!) and I launched a big project to catalog our 7.5-minute topo collection, which has complete U.S. geographic coverage and most editions of each sheet. And we wrote an article detailing what we did, so here is the citation for that: Andrew and Lamont. "Bending the Rules: Creatively Adapting Library Systems to Automate the Map Collection". Technical Services Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 3 (1998), pp. 35-48 If you can't put your hands on the journal send me a fax number and I'll fax a copy of the article to you. Generally, most places have cataloged their own state to the sheet level, including us, and then tackled other states at a different level, usually a bib. record for the state only. Others have cataloging and classified for the United States as a whole using one record, and relying on the alphabetical filing arrangement in the drawers to take care of the rest of access. Beyond the USGS 7.5-minute topos, we have actively been itemizing all sheets in map sets or series over the years and have a pretty good handle on basic sheet-level information throughout the collection. That is to say, we create a single record for the set or series and then input item records for each sheet that falls under that title (call number w/sheet number/name/similar, barcode, location -- all of which is visible to the patron when they find the record for the title in our OPAC). We are almost done with our entire collection in this manner. Hope this helps! Paige ----- Original Message ----- From: "Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee" <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 3:59:35 PM Subject: Map retrocon -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Map retrocon Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 15:56:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Merry Bower <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] We are in the early stages of a map retrocon project and are wishing to know how others approach the cataloging granularity for sheet maps. Are folks cataloging federal depository maps (USGS, etc.) at the quadrangle level? What are your best practices? We are especially interested in the map cataloging practices of other land grant institutions. Thanks, Merry Merry Bower Metadata Librarian Metadata & Preservation Dept. K-State Libraries 509 Hale Library Manhattan, KS 66506-1200 voice mail: (785) 532-7435 fax: (785) 532-7644 e-mail: [log in to unmask]