Greetings --

Please excuse the duplication of this message.

As the chair of a task force charged with figuring out the best way to use MARC linking fields when cataloging maps that have been removed from identifiable larger resources, I am soliciting, one last time, input from librarians beyond the circle of usual suspects (map catalogers who come to the Cataloging and Classification Committee meetings of MAGIRT -- the Map and Geospatial Information Round Table of the American Library Association).  At the Midwinter meeting of ALA in Denver, the task force submitted the draft report attached below.  Also attached below is the task force charge.  Each document includes the names of the task force members.

We are appealing for input, not only from those who create catalog records for maps, but also from those who use catalog records for maps. 

In catalog descriptions of maps removed from larger resources, beyond researching and clearly conveying the information about the source of a map, how should we most clearly and conveniently link to the record for the parent resource?  Certain MARC fields and elements were introduced to display how resources are related to each other and to provide links between the related resources.  We want to figure out how to best use these fields for the purpose under discussion, and make an attempt to apply them with some consistency.  We are focusing on the 773 and 787 fields.

Please send any input to me by noon eastern time on Friday, May 25th.

Thank you for considering this.

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Nancy A. Kandoian
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Map Cataloger
The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, Room 117
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
The New York Public Library
5th Avenue and 42nd Street
New York, New York 10018