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Subject:        map cataloging question
Date:   Tue, 3 Jul 2007 14:45:07 -0400
From:   Grabach, Kenneth A. Mr. <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>



I have encountered a conundrum for which I would like some advice.

I have a copy of a map from China Cartographic Publishing House:  Map of the People's Republic of China, dated 1998.  This is a political map, published bilingually in Chinese and English.  I have found WorldCat Oclc records for 1998, 2nd ed., as this one is.  But the conundrum is that the ISBN, both 10 and 13 digit versions, match a later, 4th ed. Map given variously as 2000, or 2003 in Oclc.  I am unsure which version of the record to use.  If I use the one for which most of the data matches, then the ISBN we have will not show up in the database after I change it.  If I choose the one for which ISBN matches, I am really using a record for a later edition of the map.  Any choice I make is going to be a compromise, unless I create a new record.  I am not really comfortable with this choice, because I can find records that match in one way or another; I don't want to create knowingly a duplicate record.

Ken Grabach                           <[log in to unmask]>
Maps Librarian                         Phone: 513-529-1726
Miami University Libraries
Oxford, Ohio  45056  USA