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Subject: Re: Map cataloging questions from beginning catalogers
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:55:44 -0400
From: Paige Andrew <[log in to unmask]>
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It goes before the author cutter as I showed in the example. The
author cutter, which comes after $b, is the last element in G-class
call numbers with a couple of exceptions. This differs from the
construction of call numbers for books (and atlases) and other materials.
Paige
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>Subject: Re: Map cataloging questions from beginning catalogers
>Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 15:51:23 -0400
>From: Ava Iuliano <[log in to unmask]>
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>Thank you! Does the scale go before or after the author cutter number?
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> Subject: Re: [MAPS-L] Map cataloging questions from beginning
> catalogers
> Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:47:12 -0500
> From: Susan Moore <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
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> Subject: Map cataloging questions from beginning catalogers
> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:35:29 -0400
> From: Ava Iuliano <[log in to unmask]
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> Hello everyone,
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> I am a rookie cataloger that is currently working on cataloging
> maps. I
> am working with another beginning cataloger and we've run across
> an item
> that is causing us both some confusion. The map is a large
> UNESCO map
> produced in a couple of different editions, even though the
> individual
> sheets form one single map (50 sheets making up one single HUGE
> map). The
> English title is 'International Geological Map of Europe and the
> Mediterranean Regions 1:1500000" with parallel titles in French
> and German.
> The date range is from 1964-2000. In creating a record for this
> item (our
> OCLC searches have produced only bare-bones records in German
> that often
> only describe a single sheet or Australian records for only a
> partial
> holding), how do we delineate that it is a single item in multiple
> editions?
> How would you create the record for this particular item?
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>
> Welcome to the world of map cataloging!
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> It isn't unusual for items like this to have sheets with different
> edition statements. What I usually do is add a 500 note "Sheets in
> various editions" to explain the situation.
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> Since you do have several different editions, I'd be incline to catalog
> this as a map series, rather than a single map. OCLC's Bibliographic
> Format and Standards defines a map series as "a number of related but
> physically separate and bibliographically distinct cartographic units
> intended by the producers or issuing bodies to form a single group."
> Since the sheets can be cataloged separately, I think what you have
> matches the definition. If you do decide to catalog this as a map
> series, the CrTp in the fixed field needs to be a "b". Other than that
> and putting the scale in as part of the call number, you would catalog
> it much as you would a single map.
>
> Feel free to contact me if you have further questions.
>
> Susan Moore
> Rod Library
> University of Northern Iowa
> Cedar Falls, IA 50613
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