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April thanks for this - I should be pleased to receive the doc Andrew > -----Original Message----- > From: Carlucci, April [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 2:14 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Call for comment: revision of AACR2 with regard to > cartographic m aterials > > 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 > London NW1 2DB > [log in to unmask] > Voice: 020 7412 7062 > Fax: 020 7412 7780 > > > > > > ********************************************************************* > The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be > legally privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. If you > are not the intended recipient, please delete this e-mail and notify > the [log in to unmask] : The contents of this e-mail must not be > disclosed or copied without the sender's consent. > > The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of > the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the British > Library. The British Library does not take any responsibility for > the views of the author. > *********************************************************************