Help cataloging serial maps (fwd) Mitch Turitz 09 Feb 1993 22:01 UTC
Forwarded to SERIALST with the permission of Judith Shelton. Please reply directly to her, as she does not subscribe to SERIALST. Thanks. -- Birdie ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I am forwarding the attached message from Autocat - a question on cataloging serial maps. -- Mitch Turitz ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 13:37:26 EST From: Judith Shelton <LIBJMS@GSUVM1.BITNET> To: Multiple recipients of list AUTOCAT Subject: Help cataloging serial maps I am the serials cataloger at Georgia State University. While I have cataloged a few serial atlases on the (OCLC version of the MARC) serials format, I have never had to deal with sheet maps that are serials. Our maps cataloger, on the other hand, is not very familiar with serials cataloging. I am using AACR2rev. the 1982 ed. of Cartographic Materials: a manual of interpretation for AACR2 Carolyn O. Frost's Media Access and Organization published in 1989 the OCLC maps format, and the 1991 ed. of the LC Map Cataloging Manual 1. Is there anything else I ought to be using? 2. My primary concern is what to do about entry changes. Current serials cataloging practice calls for successive entry but the maps format, lacking 78x fields, does not allow for this. (One hopes that format integration will take care of this problem, but I need to know what to do NOW.) Both Cartographic Materials and the Map Cataloging Manual seem to imply that serial maps that change title should be given some form of single entry with a title varies note. Since they also say to use AACR2, one could easily wind up with an earliest entry record since AACR2 requires that description be based on the first or earliest available issue. The example of a title varies note at the bottom of p. 7.10 of the Map Cataloging Manual suggests that perhaps latest entry is intended but this isn't stated explicitly in any of the places I have looked. Please note that I am not really trying to start a discussion of what ought to be, although knowing this group I won't be surprised if that develops ;> What I'm really after is pragmatic advice on WHAT TO DO. Is there a standard practice known to map/serial catalogers documented or un? If not, what are the rest of you doing? And why wasn't the maps format updated when successive entry was adopted 10-15 years ago or whenever it became possible to code a map "bib lvl: s"? I just violated my own plea not to get bogged down in what ought to be! Practical advice would be most welcome. Thanks in advance. Judith Shelton, Asst. Head, Catalog/Head Serials Unit Georgia Stat University Bitnet: libjms@gsuvm1 Internet: libjms@gsuvm1.gsu.edu