Hi Cynthia and all,
UCR receives the Dibblee maps on standing order. Thank goodness it does not
come out of my small budget. Here's our survival method: We keep them in
envelopes in a locked room we call the Local Collection. They all have the
same call number with Dibblee Foundation map number at the end of the
number. Also, we add the bibliographic information to our in-house map
database (Inmagic). There's only two staff members in the Map Collection,
so we know where Dibblee maps are. Therefore, we wait until the cataloging
is available. It can be a problem if the students don't look on the map
database.
Wendie
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From: owner-calmap@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-calmap@ucdavis.edu] On Behalf
Of Cynthia Jahns
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 10:54 AM
To: UC/S Map Librarians
Cc: Jim O'Donnell
Subject: [CALMAP:108] Dibblee Maps: who gets them, who catalogs them?
Hello all,
You may have seen the recent email on MAPS-L, noting that the Dibblee
Foundation intends to release ten maps a month for the foreseeable future.
In addition to being a significant expense for some of us with small
budgets, this is a very large cataloging burden. My maps cataloger says it
takes about 45 minutes to do a good job of original cataloging for one of
these maps.
We can wait for months to see a cataloging record appear in OCLC for these
maps. This leads us to ask: who receives these maps on standing order?
Who is cataloging them?
Are they a priority for your cataloger, or are you too waiting for someone
else to catalog some of them?
If you do not catalog them, how do you store them (Filed by Dibblee # ?)
and how do you provide information to your patrons to enable them to find
them?
I'm starting this dialog in hopes of finding a solution to the large backlog
we have, which grows monthly. Thanks for your input and any suggestions.
Cynthia Jahns, UC Santa Cruz
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