Dear List,
My colleagues at British Antrctic Survey use archival tools (MODES) for describing and cataloguing maps. I will pass this on to them for further information!
Paul Cooper
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Dear All,
Can anyone supply David with information?
Nick
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The survey recently announced on the map listservs by Michael St. John has
stirred my interest in what archivists are doing to describe maps. I see
that the most recent edition of Procter's Manual of Archival Description
includes instructions for describing maps down to the individual sheet
level, but I have not actually seen any examples of map
description/cataloging done according to archival standards. I vaguely
recall hearing out that a project along these lines is being carried out at
the Public Record Office and perhaps elsewhere in Britain. I would very
much appreciate it if somebody could point me to some examples of archival
description of individual maps.
David Allen
Map Librarian
Stony Brook University
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