We have a standing order and it's not the $ that concern me but the time
in Catalog.
I would assume GeoRef picks these all up and are searchable by Quad
name???
Wonder what their lag time is...Just spot checking I could not find
#243, Geologic map of the Port Midway and Tracy Quadrangles, July 2006.
Linda Newman
University of Nevada Reno
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-calmap@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-calmap@ucdavis.edu] On
Behalf Of Mary Larsgaard
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 11:22 AM
To: UC/S Map Librarians
Cc: Jim O'Donnell; milrefdesk
Subject: [CALMAP:109] Re:Dibblee Maps: who gets them, who catalogs them?
We get them on standing order, and
yes, this does come to a fair amount of
money.
As for cataloging - I have chickened out
on the cataloging one-by-one bit.
We have an entry for the series as
a whole.
There are so many that listing
all the quad names in (probably
more than 1) 505 is not as
attractive an option as it might be.
But it would be my choice
in contrast to doing original
cataloging for each one.
There are so many geologic maps
of CA that appear only
in geologic-map indexes such
as http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/
and are not separately cataloged
in this library's online catalog,
and the Dibblee maps are
just another example of that.
We file in alpha order by quad name.
Persons seem more likely to
search the Web (and we do
refer them to http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/ quite often)
than this library's online catalog;
we do have handmade indexes
(drawn on USGS topo indexes for CA)
for geologic maps that we use extensively.
When persons come to or email
MIL, they most often are interested in maps
of a specific area but not any
one specific map.
Mary
Cynthia Jahns wrote:
> 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
>
> 0
>
-- Mary Lynette Larsgaard Director, Map Library Assistant Head, Map and Imagery Laboratory Davidson Library University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106-9010 USA mary@library.ucsb.edu voice: 805/893-4049; 2779, reference desk fax: 805/893-8799
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