Forwarded to SERIALST with the permission of Judith Shelton.  Please
reply directly to her, as she does not subscribe to SERIALST.  Thanks.
                                                                 -- Birdie

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I am forwarding the attached message from Autocat - a question on
cataloging serial maps. -- Mitch Turitz

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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

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