----------------------------Original message---------------------------- We are proud to announce that the annual national bibliography of maps published in The Netherlands has been published again, though in a different cover then before. Between 1977 and 1984 the Royal Library of The Netherlands published annuals for the years 1975 up to and including 1982 of the "Bibliografie van in Nederland verschenen kaarten". The first annual contained 402 descriptions, the last 2,841. Because we tried to amalgamate with a general bibliographic database (which did not work) and after that remade our system with state of the art software (unix, unify etc.) we were not able to produce the bibliography for a long time with the programmes used in the CCK (Dutch Union Map Catalogue). However we kept up with record-production through the years (some 27,500 descriptions). Though we are presently porting our system to (hopefully) more reliable software and another platform we fortunately can produce tapes for our publisher. We found the publisher of the Dutch National Bibliography willing to include our annual therein and produce at the same time some 100 surplus copies for sale to institutions which are not interested in the total National Bibliography. Instead of annuals we intend to publish tri-annuals because a lot of important publications can only be added to the collection with a long time-lag. This means that the present bibliography contains descriptions of maps published in 1991-1993, next year 1992-1994, following year 1993-1995, etc. For those interested the description follows: "Bibliografie van in Nederland verschenen kartografische materialen : Nederlandse bibliografie ... : 1991-1993 ... - Houten : Bohn Stafleu Van Loghum, 1995. - XII, 645 p." Included in: "Brinkman's cumulatieve catalogus van boeken : 1994. 2362, XII, 645 p." The bibliography contains 3,673 descriptions (ordered alphabetical in order of publisher, 451 p.), indexes according to CCK-area-code, CCK-subject-code and title, and lists for area- and subject-references. It ends with an adress-list of publishers (only those of whom maps are included). The bibliography includes also maps published in or appended to books and periodicals. This means that it includes e.g. 154 descriptions of maps published in part IV of the "Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica" or 178 descriptions of maps published in part 2 of the "Sedimentary basins of the world". Information on the National bibliography or seperate map-bibliography can be gotten from the publisher: Mr. A. Ruster Bohn Stafleu Van Loghum P.O. Box 246 3990 GA Houten The Netherlands Tel: +31-3403-95701 (from 1 October onwards +31-30-6395701) fax: +31-3403-50903 (from 1 October onwards +31-30-6350903) Unfortunately no e-mail address Thank you for your attention. Jan Smits Map Curator Royal Library, National Library of The Netherlands e-mail: [log in to unmask] tel: +31-70-3140241 fax: +31-70-3140450