Dear April,
Could I have access to a copy if I came over to the BL Map Room on a
non-ULL day to look at it there? Can you estimate how many pages there
are? - or is it now the mock-up of the whole Manual?
Moira
At 02:14 PM 5/3/01 +0100, you wrote:
>Hello everyone
>
>As many of you will be aware, the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules 2nd
>edition is being revised. Much work has already been done on the revisions
>of rules related to cartographic materials, and you may remember that last
>year I invited comments to the proposed revisions.
>
>I have just received the latest revisions, the "clean copy" accepted by the
>Joint Steering Committee for the Revision of AACR at its meeting in April.
>These have been forwarded to me by Mary Larsgaard on behalf of the
>international group which is taking this work forward, and includes
>representatives from the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and our own
>Francis Herbert at the RGS. All those who work with maps owe this group a
>vote of thanks.
>
>The UK map library community is invited to comment on the proposed
>revisions, and this is the last opportunity for comment. All rule changes
>will have been made unless any further comments are offered before the Fall
>2001meeting of JSC.
>
>Because the proposed revisions document is fairly large, I am not attaching
>it to this general interest message. If you would like to have the document
>forwarded to you, please contact me and I will forward it under separate
>cover, so to speak.
>
>For those of you wondering what this means for the revision of the book
>Cartographic materials, a manual of interpretation for AACR2, I cannot offer
>a firm date but can report that a timetable is in place and work is
>progressing. Mary Larsgaard (University of California at Santa Barbara) and
>Elizabeth Mangan (retired head of cataloguing at LC G&M) are organising this
>work as well.
>
>I look forward to hearing from many of you.
>
>April Carlucci
>Cataloguing Manager and Curator of Modern Maps
>The British Library Map Library
>96 Euston Road
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