-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        Re: Cataloging policy and practice for maps extracted from
atlases
Date:   Fri, 16 May 2008 14:41:42 -0400
From:   Joel Kovarsky <[log in to unmask]>
To:     [log in to unmask]



There is another issue embedded here, with respect to the issue of
security and theft. If the library has obtained something that is
valuable, for archival and/or monetary reasons, one of your best
defenses is a solid cataloging record, recording as much copy specific
detail as possible. If one simply buries the map, not only does it now
become part of the problem of "hidden collections" (already mentioned by
others), but you have no reliable record of the item should it ever
disappear. For particularly valuable material, or material that stands a
reasonable probability of becoming so, you subvert your own goals by the
lack of a well-cataloged record.

                Joel Kovarsky

Maps-L Moderator wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:        RE: Cataloging policy and practice for maps extracted
> from
> atlases
> Date:   Fri, 16 May 2008 11:39:42 -0600
> From:   Ken Rockwell <[log in to unmask]>
> To:     <[log in to unmask]>
>
> But so long as the purchase has been
> done, I think it's in the end users' interest to have all library
> resources in the catalog.  As a cataloger, I've always assumed that my
> job is to catalog whatever they throw at me; it's not my job to
> second-guess and resist the actions of others in the library who made
> the decision to acquire something.