Following up on Paige's message, RDA says to "Record a projection of
cartographic content if considered important for identification or
selection" in 7.26.1.3. Since it doesn't say transcribe, we can expand the
acronym.

Susan

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 3:14 PM, Paige G. Andrew <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> My personal preference is to expand this acronym to Universal Transverse
> Mercator projection.
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> Paige
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> *From: *"Jordan Hale" <[log in to unmask]>
> *To: *"[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
> *Sent: *Wednesday, April 19, 2017 3:50:51 PM
> *Subject: *Question re: projection info in RDA
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> Hi all,
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> When cataloguing a UTM-projected map, do I follow the principle of “take
> what you see” or “expand acronyms” in 255 subfield b when the projection
> statement reads “UTM (Zone 18)”?
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> Thanks,
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> Jordan
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> *Jordan Hale*, Original Cataloguer & Reference Specialist
> Map & Data Library, University of Toronto
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