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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: Re: map cataloging question
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 10:34:56 -0400
From: Tom Koenig <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
If you check OCLC guidelines on when to input a new record you'll find that a difference in the ISBN alone does not justify a new record.
Since the ISBNs don't look reliable I think I would use the 2nd edition record since you seem to be saying that it matches what you have in hand most closely.
> Maps-L wrote:
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > 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
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