--- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 09:19:00 +0000 (/etc/localtime) From: Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Cataloging: Road maps <fwd> Sender: Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]> I have encountered confusion like this, myself, in the past when using the OCLC authority files. What has changed is NOT the status of |v Road maps as a valid format subdivision. What has changed is that in the last few years it is not easy to find Free-floating subdivisions in the OCLC authority file. What you found is that "Road maps" is not a valid subject heading by itself. But as a subdivision for maps of a place it is valid. I have found similar frustration trying to find other free-floating subdivisions when I had no cataloging references but the OCLC authority file close to hand. _________________________________________ Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]> Documents and Maps Librarian Miami University Libraries Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Johnnie Sutherland wrote: > --- Begin Forwarded Message --- > Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:09:37 -0500 (CDT) > From: Sue Ann Lewandowski <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Cataloging: Road maps > Sender: Sue Ann Lewandowski <[log in to unmask]> > > > > To catalogers in MAPS-L Land: > > I am revising some map records after a few-month hiatus. I noticed in > OCLC's authority file today that "|v Road maps" is not listed as a valid > subdivision under the heading "Road maps." This doesn't mean that "|v > Road maps" isn't valid, but I would have preferred to see it listed as > such in the authority record. The record only lists "Roads |v Maps" as > valid and the 450 is "Road maps |w nne" with "nne" meaning "the cross > reference was formerly an AACR2 heading" (quote paraphrased from the 1994 > NACO participants' manual). [Bleh. I sure wish that there were better > subdivision information in OCLC records in general, anyway!] > > I looked in the Subject cataloging manual and the latest Free-floating > subdivision book and "|v Road maps" appears in both as a valid > subdivision. Also, "|v Road maps" is not listed as a changed or cancelled > free-floating subdivision in any recent CSB. > > Does anybody know if the use of "|v Road maps" has been discontinued very > recently? I could add the subject: "Roads |z [Place] |v Maps" easily > enough, but I think that it doesn't provide very good access to patrons, > so I don't want to do it if I don't have to. > > Thanks, > Sue Ann > > . > } > { Sue Ann Lewandowski, MLS > .} N209 Love Library, Cataloging/Maps > { University of Nebraska--Lincoln > } Lincoln NE 68588-0410 > {. 402-472-3545, 472-5131 (fax) > } [log in to unmask] > { > } . . > --- End Forwarded Message --- > --- End Forwarded Message ---