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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 09:19:00 +0000 (/etc/localtime)
From: Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Cataloging: Road maps <fwd>
Sender: Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]>
I have encountered confusion like this, myself, in the past when using the
OCLC authority files. What has changed is NOT the status of |v Road maps
as a valid format subdivision. What has changed is that in the last few
years it is not easy to find Free-floating subdivisions in the OCLC
authority file. What you found is that "Road maps" is not a valid subject
heading by itself. But as a subdivision for maps of a place it is valid.
I have found similar frustration trying to find other free-floating
subdivisions when I had no cataloging references but the OCLC authority
file close to hand.
_________________________________________
Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]>
Documents and Maps Librarian
Miami University Libraries
Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Johnnie Sutherland wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:09:37 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Sue Ann Lewandowski <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Cataloging: Road maps
> Sender: Sue Ann Lewandowski <[log in to unmask]>
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>
> To catalogers in MAPS-L Land:
>
> I am revising some map records after a few-month hiatus. I noticed in
> OCLC's authority file today that "|v Road maps" is not listed as a valid
> subdivision under the heading "Road maps." This doesn't mean that "|v
> Road maps" isn't valid, but I would have preferred to see it listed as
> such in the authority record. The record only lists "Roads |v Maps" as
> valid and the 450 is "Road maps |w nne" with "nne" meaning "the cross
> reference was formerly an AACR2 heading" (quote paraphrased from the 1994
> NACO participants' manual). [Bleh. I sure wish that there were better
> subdivision information in OCLC records in general, anyway!]
>
> I looked in the Subject cataloging manual and the latest Free-floating
> subdivision book and "|v Road maps" appears in both as a valid
> subdivision. Also, "|v Road maps" is not listed as a changed or cancelled
> free-floating subdivision in any recent CSB.
>
> Does anybody know if the use of "|v Road maps" has been discontinued very
> recently? I could add the subject: "Roads |z [Place] |v Maps" easily
> enough, but I think that it doesn't provide very good access to patrons,
> so I don't want to do it if I don't have to.
>
> Thanks,
> Sue Ann
>
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> }
> { Sue Ann Lewandowski, MLS
> .} N209 Love Library, Cataloging/Maps
> { University of Nebraska--Lincoln
> } Lincoln NE 68588-0410
> {. 402-472-3545, 472-5131 (fax)
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