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Subject: Re: MAPS-L: OCLC country of publication coding
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005
From: Paige Andrew <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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Jenny,
I concur with your assessment.
Paige
At 08:51 AM 7/22/2005, you wrote:
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>Subject: OCLC country of publication coding
>Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:25:46 -0500
>From: Jenny Marie Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
>To: MAPS-L <[log in to unmask]>
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>Hi.
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>I'm cataloging a 1945 map that appears to have been produced in
>Chungking by the 14th Air Force.
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>In the Ctry fixed field, do I code for China or for the United States?
>The reason I ask is because I stumbled across this statement in the OCLC
>documentation about the Ctry code:
>Government publications. If a government publishes an item outside its
>borders (e.g., the publication of an embassy), use the code for the
>government involved.
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>It seems to me that this is produced by the US government (the US Air
>Force) outside of its borders (in Chungking, not someplace in the US)...
>so therefore, I use xxu, not cc?
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>Thanks!
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>Jenny Marie Johnson
>Map and Geography Librarian and
>Assoc. Professor of Library Administration
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>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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