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2. Series according to ISBD: 'A group of separate items related to one another by the fact that each
item
bears, in addition to its own title prope, a collective title applying to the group as a whole, i.e. the
title
proper of a series. The separate items may or may not be numbered ans/or lettered'.
Series according to AACR2: '1. A group of separate items related to one another by the fact that
each
item bears, in addition to its own title proper, a collective title applying to the group as a whole.
The
individual item may or may not be numbered. 2. Each of two or more volumes of essays, lectures,
articles,
or other writing, similar in character and issued in sequence, e.g. Lowell's "Among my books, second
series". 3. A separately numbered sequence of volumes within a series or serial, e.g. "Notes and
queries,
1st series, 2nd series, etc."
3. Guidelines for the application of the ISBD's to the description of component parts / approved by
the
Standing Committees of the IFLA Section on Cataloguing and the IFLA Section of Serial Publications.
London, 1988
These guidelines were made in cooperation with the abstracting and indexing community to provide
a.o.
for their needs.
4. J. Smits: Frontiers of access to cartographic materials within a repository library. In: LIBER Bulletin 28, Heidelberg, 1986, pp. 34-39.
5. A.o. in 'Index to maps in books and periodicals [of the American Geographical Society in New
York],
G.K. Hall, 4 vol.' and 'Bibliografie van in Nederland verschenen kaarten, annually'.
I was very glad to meet a geology- and mineralogy-expert who works at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure
des Mines in Fontainebleau who described the most important maps of their serial-collection
(appendixes or illustrations) and entered them as separate entries in their automated catalogue.
In this
way he had described up to 1990 already some 1,600 maps.
6. Besides this I have the eery feeling that momentarily we are changing into a world where people are alphabetized, but that part of us transfers part of this knowlegde into knowlegde of pictographs/gram- mes. This also because the amount of alphanumerical information is becoming too vast to comprehended if it is not generalized.
7. I estimate the Dutch production of "published" cartographic materials between 20 and 30,000. This excludes all in-house publishing (as with the municipalities, planning services etc.) and GIS, LIS, TIS or other systems.
8. Maybe this is the new way of producing national atlases. As one can see in the progress-report 1988-1990 of Sweden they have produced the first of 17 thematic parts, making up the Swedish National Atlas.
9. If subsequent records have been used and a part must be interjected, to keep the sequence right, it may mean that all subsequent records must be modified. Furthermore I have heard that programming the use of subsequent records in a system is a tedious and difficult job.
10. When people ask me waht I describe I tell them I describe 'cartographic information' instead of 'cartographic materials or documents'.
11. In a small telephone-survey I found that these features have been included in the systems used in France, Denmark and The Netherlands. Only in Great-Britain were they wanting in the existing system of BLAISE. However the British Library is in the process of upgrading its housing and the automated processes they use.
12. It is our experience that one can easily describe 50 topographic sheets a day. The mutation mainly are: record-data, contents-data, title, number, sorting-number, geographical co-ordinates, year of publication, notes and area-code.
13. For examples I refer to the papers and demonstrations of Pica and the CCK of The Netherlands.
14. It may be that a national library has created multi-level descriptions of the Topographic Map 1:50.000, which they use for their national bibliography. But a local collection, taking part in the same system or downloading records into its own system, may want to describe only the local parts of this map and retrieve them as one-level records, or as separate maps with a series-statement!