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Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 12:40:08 -0700
From: Mary Larsgaard <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Book recommendations <fwd>
Sender: Mary Larsgaard <[log in to unmask]>
I am in a position to know that the 3d ed. of
Map Librarianship has been published :-)
See, on the Web:
http://www.lu.com/titles/larmapli.htm
Includes table of contents.
Mary Larsgaard
At 02:30 PM 7/1/99 -0400, you wrote:
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>Mary Larsgaard's book, Map librarianship: an introduction, 2nd ed, 1987,
>Libraries Unlimited, is an excellent answer to your first query. It is
>due out in a new edition, but I have not yet seen an announcement on this
>list that it is out.
>
>In answer to the other query, I will take it in the spirit you meant,
>because cataloging is NOT for dummies, as anyone who has tried to teach it
>to someone else can attest!
>
>There is the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division's Map
>cataloging manual, 1991-, which is easy to use despite its length.
>
>Another is Cartographic materials: a manual of interpretation for AACR2,
>ALA, 1982. This has some usefulness despite the fact that a revised
>edition of AACR2 has come out since this book was published.
>
>The OCLC Inputting Standards coupled with the LC Map cataloging manual
>represent my 'bible' and commentary that I rely upon for most of my work.
>
>Finally, there are some good, really good, map catalogers in OCLC land,
>especially at LC and the New York Public Library. Others as well whose
>OCLC symbols I do not recognize are doing fine work. Many of the records
>you see in OCLC are good examples of how to do it.
>
>_________________________________________
>Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]>
>Documents and Maps Librarian
>Miami University Libraries
>Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA
>
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>> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 08:37:38 -0500
>> From: Murway Mark <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Book recommendations
>> Sender: Murway Mark <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>> Ahoy!
>>
>> Is there a basic, introductory book about map librarianship?
>>
>> Also, is there a Cataloging for Dummies book?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark Murway
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>I believe that many people will suggest the following in response to
>your first question:
>
>Map librarianship : an introduction / Mary Lynette Larsgaard. -- 3rd ed.
>-- Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1998.
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>
>John A. Stevenson
>Coordinator, Government Documents and Maps Processing Unit
>University of Delaware Library
>181 S. College Ave. [log in to unmask] - email
>Newark, DE 19717-5267 302-831-8671 - voice
>Depository 0087 302-831-1046 - fax
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