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Subject: Re: help with LCSH for northeast towns & cities
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:39:15 -0500
From: susan a hawkins <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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Hello!
Haveing made retail maps as well as done tax mapping for places in New
York State, it's a bit like this:
Warwick can be a named place, and
Warwick can be a Town (capital T) that has places in it. Like where I
grew up, Oswego. Oswego is a County, which has a city of Oswego in it,
as well as a Town of Oswego. The City of Oswego is adjacent to the Town
of Oswego, but neither is inside of one another. There is not a named
place of Oswego there. A named place would be a bit like a hamlet;
unincorporated, with no boundaries.. Towns have boundaries.
Does this help?
---sue h
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Angie Cope, American Geographical
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Subject: Re: help with LCSH for northeast towns & cities
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:58:06 -0500
From: Grabach, Kenneth <[log in to unmask]
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Someone in New York might have more information than me, but here is a
Midwesterner's explanation. Towns in the Northeast are essentially
similar to Townships in the states of the Old Northwest and some other
states. The first is a city or village. The one with (Town) is a
county subdivision.
In the LC class schedule for map you would use G3804 for a map of
Warwick (N.Y.) and G3803 for a map of Warwick (N.Y. : Town).
Ken Grabach
Maps Librarian
Miami University Libraries
Oxford, OH 45056 USA
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Angie Cope, American Geographical
Society Library, UW Milwaukee <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: help with LCSH for northeast towns & cities
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:45:23 -0600
From: Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW
Milwaukee
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We have similar scenarios in Wisconsin, too. It has to do with two
places having the same name and the subject headings attempting to
differentiate. In your case a township versus city.
Angie
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Subject: help with LCSH for northeast towns & cities
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:31:28 +0000
From: Elizabeth J Cox <[log in to unmask]
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Good morning, oh great collective wisdom. The staff person who
works
with me doing copy cataloging of maps has asked me to explain the
difference between these two geographic subject headings:
Warwick (N.Y.)
Warwick (N.Y. : Town)
I seem to recall that this issue is specific to the northeast
U.S. and
that I had a difficult time wrapping my head around it when it was
explained to me many years ago. Can anyone provide a good,
preferably
brief explanation? Or is there somewhere online that can?
Thank you!
Beth
ELIZABETH J. COX
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, SPECIAL FORMATS CATALOGER
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