Volume 2 Number 1 1981

., ISSN 0272-8532

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a newsletter of the Map & Geography Roundtable

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Ramblings from the Chair 3 Amblings from the Editor 3 Question Box • • • • • • 4 Conferences • • • • • • 4 MAGERT Conference Schedule 4 News . • • • • • • • • • • 6 On the Cataloging/Cataloguing Front 6 New Books, Periodical Articles, etc. 7 New Maps • • • • • 10 Duplicate Maps • • 11 Conference Reports 11

Volume 2 - no. 1 1981 .. .. Base Line is an official publication of the American Library Association's lwp & Geography Round Table. The purpose of Base Line is to provide current information on cartographic materials:-;ther publications of interest to map and geography librarians, meetings, related governmental activities, and map librarianship. It is the medium of communication for members of the Round Table, and information and short articles of interest to Round Table members are welcomed. The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent those of ALA or of ¥AGERT.

Editor: Mary Larsgaard Contributing editors: ¥.apLibrarian Arthur Lakes Library David Cobb Colorado School of Mines University of Illinois, Urbana Golden CO 80401 (303)279-030Ox2697 Charley Seavey University of New Mexico

Robert Karrow The Newberry Library, Chicago

Articles and shorter notices should be submitted to the Editor. Advertising is accepted - contact Editor for rates and deadlines. Base Line is published quarterly. Members of MAGERT receive the news- letter as a benefit of membership. Nonmembers may subscribe for $12.00 per year; checks in U. S. dollars should be sent to:

Charley Seavey Subscription Manager, base line Gov. Pubs. & Maps Dept. Zimmerman Library University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131 (505)277-5441

ALA personal and institutional members are invited to choose MAGERT membership for $7.00 and $10.00 respectively by so advising ALA, 50 E. Huron sc., Chicago IL 60611. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • MAGERT OFFICERS

CHAIRPERSON: SECRETARY:

David A. Cobb Richard Fox Map & Geography Library Geography and Map Division University of Illinois Library of Congress Urbana IL 61801 Washington DC 20540 (217)333-0827 (202)287-8512

~ American Library Association 1980

Published by the Map & Geography Round Table RAMBLINGS FROM THE CHAIR

The recent ALA Midwinter meetings were very successful for a group whose existence is still measured in months rather than years. First, it was gratifying to report that our financial balance was nearly $1,000, our expenses were very low, and we decided to continue to publish Base Line on our own for another year. Our membership was approximately~ as-- of 31 December 1980 and growing!

Two unexpected invitations were given to MAGERT while in Washington. Initially, we were invited to nominate a member to the Standing Committee of IFLA for the Section on Geography and Map Libraries. This nomination is currently in process and will be announced in the next issue. Also, Lee Ash - Editor of Special Collections, and a MAGERT member - invited the Round Table to help coordinate an issue on map collections.

Charley Seavey then announced plans for the San Francisco conference; these are listed further on in this issue. Charky and Phil Hoehn (DCI Berkek~p have worked hard to put together one of the "best ever" map library programs and have brought together experts, from Washington, D.C. to Mexico City.

Don't forget, the growth and success of your organization is up to you, and depends on your active participation. If you would like to, or are willing to, help us in any way, please write to me.

David Cobb

AMBLINGS FROM THE EDITOR

This issue is a few months later than I would have liked--but the date of issuance was dictated by the date of the first printout of MAGERT membership (end of March), without which list it seemed pointless to proceed. The next issue will follow fairly quickly on the heels of this one.

David modestly neglected to mention that Midwinter brought another achievement for MAGERT - a photograph of him and a short paragraph on ~~GERT appeared in the March issue of American Libraries, p. 130. So if you've been wondering what a person masochistic enough to be deeply involved in starting an ALA round table looks like, here's your chance (funny, there are no obvious signs of madness).

WANT TO BEEF UP YOUR RESUME?

Become a Base Line contributing editor! Base Line needs correspondents from the Northeast, the Southeast, the ¥idwest, the Northwest, California, and probably wherever you happen to be. Nothing elegant required in the line of submissions - photocopy and telephone calls fine. Base Line also needs an advertising editor. Doubtless I'll think up another few offices--or become painfully aware of the need for them--as the months march by. Talk to me if you're interested.

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QUESTION BOX

1) Has anyone besides Barbara Cox at U.Utah used CLSI's circulation system for maps? Are you willing to talk about it, so the rest of us can avoid the pitfalls?

2) Does anyone know what Geodata International's micro- fiche labeled Geologic Map Line are generated from, or what explanatory data exists so that they may be used?

(NOTE: This space available for questions you may have about map & geography library matters. Send questions and answers to the Editor)

CONFERENCES

Relax, it's already happened: AACR2 Cataloguing for Maps, April 3 and 4, University of Toronto (Joan Winearls presiding). NELINET and SOLINET may be offering map tagging workshops in the future; contact your network office for details.

April 19-22, 1981 Association of American Geographers 77th Anniversary meeting, Los Angeles (Patricia J. McWethy, AAG, 1710 Sixteeenth St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20009)

May 30-June 5, 1981 IXth International Conference on the History of Cartography, Pisa, Florence, and Rome (Segretaria della IX Conferenza Internazionale di Storia della Cartografia, Piazza Paganica, 4, 00186 Roma, Italia)

June 26-July 1, 1981 100th annual ALA conference, San Francisco, with the theme of "Libraries and the Pursuit of Happiness"

}~y 24-26, 1982 Second International Conference on Geological Infor- mation, Colorado School of Mines, Golden CO 80401

MAGERT CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:

Friday, June 26 4:30-5:30 Executive Committee (Chair: David Cobb)

Saturday, June 27 9:30-11:00 Map On-Line Users Group (Chair: Eliza- beth Mangan, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington DC 20540)

2:00-4:00 New Developments in Map Librarianship (cont. on next page) base line 2(1):4 ------(Saturday, June 27, cont.) 1) Searching GEOREF for Maps (Nancy Pruett, Sandia Laboratories, Albuquerque) 2) PAIGH 1:250,000 hemispheric mapping program (Ing. Alberto Villasana, Seffor Presidente de la Comisi6n de Cartograf{a del I.P.G.H., Mexico, D.F.) 3) Coastal ecological inventory mapping program (John D. Buffington, Chief, Office of Biological Services, Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington) (Others may be announced)

7:00-9:00 Reception at UC Berkely Map Collection (limit 100)** Sunday, June 28 9:30-11:00 Microcartography: an update 1) Microcartography at NCIC (Lee Aggers, ChIef, NCIC-West, Menlo Park CAl 2) Commercial microcartography (Chuck Barkee, Microchart Systems Inc., San Rafael) 3) Microcartography at the Bureau of the Census and the 1980 Census (Dan Jones, Geography Division, The Bureau, Washington) (Others may be announced) 2:00-4:00 Mapping the Transmississippi West 1) The early history of cartography (Kenneth Nebenzahl, Kenneth Neb- enzahl Inc., Chicago) 2) George Wheeler and the Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (Robert Karrow, The Newberry Library, Chicago) 3) The Wagon Road Surveys (Charley Seavey, University of New Mexico) 4) G. K. Warren and his map of the West (Frank Schubert, Historical Div- ision, Chief of Engineers, Army Corps of Engineers, Washington) 5:00-7:00 Reception at J. Howell Books (limit 50)** Monday, June 29 9:30-11:00 Business meeting (Chair: David Cobb) 2:00-4:00 "If You Don't Know Anything About Maps, Come to This Session" (panel) Chair: Stan Stevens (DC Santa Cruz) Participants: Jim Coombs (Southwest Missouri State, Springfield) David Lundquist (DC Davis) Ralph Moreno (Mill Valley Public Library, Mill Valley CAl (Others to be announced) 6:00-8:00 Reception at Rand McNally Map Store (limit 75)** (cont. on next page)

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Tuesday, June 30 All day Open Cartographic Users' Advisory Council meeting (Chair: Charley Seavey) at USGS in Menlo Park; tour of USGS facilities (bus transportation approx. $8.00)**

**Persons interested in the asterisked events should notify Phil Hoehn, as space is limited. Preference will be given to members of MAGERT. You may reach Phil at: Map Room, General Library, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720 (415)642-4940.

NEWS

1980 Census: LeRoy Schwarzkopf reports in DTTP 9(1):35, Jan. '81, that no urban atlas series are scheduled) due to color printing costs.

Cartographic Information Society: formed in mid 1980; purposes are to: 1) promote communication and cooperation among producers, disseminators, and users of cartographic information; 2) improve understanding of cartographic materials through education; 3) promote the acquisition, preservation, and automated retrieval of all types of cartographic materials; 4) influence governmental policy on cartographic materials and information. For further information, contact: Cartographic Information Society c/o Christine Reinhard 143 Science Hall University of Wisconsin Madison WI 53706 Going to ALA in San Francisco? But the cost of hotel rooms makes you all choked up? Jim Coombs feels the same way, and is looking for someone to share a hotel room with; he's thinking in terms of the Hotel Chancellor. Call or write him at: (417)836-5105; Map Collection, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield IL 65802 ...... ON THE CATALOGING/CATALOGUING FRONT

The Anglo-American Cataloguing Committee 'for Cartographic Materials will meet at the end of April for five days to work over the draft manual; it is heartily hoped by all concerned that this will result in a final draft. The end result will be published by ALA.

See Highlights (GP 3.27: 43), Dec. 1980, p. 4, for article on GPO map cataloging.

The Editor of the Association of Canadian Map Libraries Bulletin, Bob Batchelder (University of Calgary), is calling for short reports from map catalogers on the implementation of AACR2 (i.e., source of copy, use of computer-based systems).

Reports on cataloging actiyites at Midwinter further on this issue.

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NEW BOOKS, PERIODICAL ARTICLES, ETC.

"Round Table on Latin American Map Acquisitions," p.30-31 in: Windward, leeward, and main: Caribbean studies and library resources final report and working papers of the twenty-fourth Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM), 1979, Los Angeles. 1980. Available from SALALM Secretariat, 412A Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 728 State Street, Madison 53706 (608)262-3240. Price not given.

A guide to obtaining information from the USGS. Washington: GPO, 1981. (Circular / United States Geological Survey ; 777) FREE from: Branch of Distribution, USGS, 604 South Pickett Street, Alexandria 22304

Map data catalog: national mapping program. Washington: GPO, 1981? SuDocs number I 19.2: M32/13. For sale from Sudocs, but no observable stock number in any of the classic places on piece.

Thermal springs list for the United States. Washington: GPO, 1980. (Key to geophysical records documentation / NOAA; no. 12). NOTE: Available at cost are 1:250,000 scale transparencies (on standard USGS/DMA grid) showing locations of natural geothermal features for all states in which such springs occur. For further information, and for a FREE copy of the thermal springs list, check with; NOAA/NGSDC, Data Mapping Group, Code D64, 325 Broadway, Boulder CO 80303.

The DeLorme Publishing Co. has a Vermont atlas & gazetterr, a New Hamp- shire atlas and gazetteer, and the same for Maine, also a Maine ski touring map & guide, and so forth. For publisher's brochure, send to: DeLorme Publishing Co., POBox 81, Yarmouth ME 04096 (207)846-9764

"The bibliotaphic libraries of the year 200," by Harold Wooster, in Library resources ~ technical services 25(1):104-109, Jan/March 1981. Perfect reading for those days when all the bad news in the library world has you to the murder-mysteries-and-chocolate-bonbon stage. The abstract begins, "This paper is an unsavory mixture of library automation literature and science fiction," and goes on from there. Highly recommended for all right-thinking catalogers such as myself.

Rocks and minerals information, from the Ontario Geological Survey (Ministry of Natural Resources, 8th Floor, 77 Grenville Street, Toronto MSS IB3). The 1981 edition includes, on p , 1 yet, "How to select published reports and maps." Also available from the same address is a superb poster, Ontario minerals, which does have a map on the back so you can justify sending for it. Both FREE.

New NCIC brochure advertising its services now available; title seems to be (somewhat unoriginally) National Cartographic Information Service; request either from your regional office, state affiliate, or national (National Center, USGS, Reston VA 22092). For those of uS in the Rocky Mountain Area, the regional NCIC has a newsletter; Cheryl Coumans Sund is editor; address if you want to be on the mailing list is:Ms. Sund, USGS, National Mapping Division, Rocky Mountain Mapping Center, Box 25046, Federal Center, MS 511, Denver 80225. Do other regional NCIC offices have newsletters?

base line 2 (1): 7 Maps ~ New Zealand (NAMS 197/1). FREE from: Map Centre, Dept. of Lands and Survey, POBox 6452, Te Aro, Wellington, New Zealand.

Forthcoming article in Wilson Library Bulletin (March 1981): Jim Coombs on how to select globes. Excellent article--watch out for this one. First presented at SLA Geography & Map Division meetings in Washington, 1980.

Windows to the past : ~ bibliography of Minnesota county atlases, by Mai Treude (University of Minnesota Map Librarian). FREE from (ask for CURA 80-3): CURA, 311 Walter Library, 117 Pleasant St. SE, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455.

Ontario map sources. Brochure FREE from: Ontario Travel, Queen's Park, Toronto M7E 2E5.

Cartobibliography 400 maps in the Civil War Collection of NOS. FREE from: National Ocean Survey, Physical Science Services Branch COA/C513, 6001 Executive Bouldevard, Rockville MD 20852.

Maps for America: cartographic products of the U.S. Geological Survey and others. Washington: GPO, 1980. $11 from SuDocs, SiN 024-001-03145-1.

The Minnesota Geological Survey has published an 18-page index and bib. to all geologically related maps of Minnesota; free to state residents,' about $1.59 to us auslanders. Write the Survey at 1633 Eustis Street St. Paul 55108.

First revised pages f~w the Map sources directory (43 new sheets) are now available for $3.75 from: Map Library, R. 115, Scott Library, York University, 4700 Keele Street Downsview, Ontario MaJ 2R2. NOTE: Check or money order must be in Canadian funds and made payable to York University Libraries.

Maps of Indian reserves and settlements in the National Map Collection; another in the superb line of cartobibliographical works from the National Map Collection of Canada. FREE from: Information Services, Public Archives of Canada, 395 Wellington, Ottawa K1A ON3.

At long last, a new Unesco map catalog, Unesco catalogue ~ maps and publications in the geological, soil and climatological sciences, FREE from: Unipub, 345 Park Avenue South, NY 10010. Also available from same address: Map l!. atlas catalog.

Woodward, David. The Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography : the first decade. Free (I think) from the Center, The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton, Chicago 60610.

Cartographic materials in UNIMARC : the proposals ~ ~ sub-group of the IFLA Joint Working Group on ISBD(CM). London: IFLA International Office for UBC, 1979. (Occasional paper no. 5). Vendor: The Office, c/o British Library, Reference Division, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG.

Two new guides to maps in specific libraries (both free): 1. A guide to cartographic resources in the MSU libraries, by Linda Naru. Map Library, Main Library, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI 48824 2. Guide ~ maps in Perkins Library, by Kathleen Eisenbeis. Ms. Eisenbeis, Pub. Docs. & Maps Dept., Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham NC 27706. base line 2(1):8 Travel in the United States : ~ guide to information sources, ed. by Joyce Post and Jeremiah Post. (Geography and travel information guide series; v. 3). Available from Gale Research in or about }illy1981. $34.00. ISBN 0-8103-1423-1.

Mineral atlas of the Pacific Northwest. $8.95 from: University Press of Idaho, POBox 3368, Mosco 83843.

In the category of I-suppose-everyone-but-me-knew-about-these: Rand McNally encyclopedia of world rivers. $24.95 from RMcN.

The dictionary of imaginary places, by Alberto Maguel and Gianni Guadalupi. $24.95 from Macmillian. OCLC 6092121.

Mapline : a quarterly newsletter published by the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library. For $4 you get 4 issues full of information not just on old and rare maps but with current listings of new publications and of upcoming conferences. The value far exceeds the cost. The Center, The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago 60610.

Chronicle = Chronigue, a periodical issued by the Canadian National Commission for Cartography. Filled with information on cartography and mapping in and of Canada; also touches on the international scene. No price given. Contact: Neil G. Grant, Dept. of Geography, Carleton University, Ottawa K1S 5B6.

Second edition of the National atlas of the United States of America - now proposed; to be issued in looseleaf form by USGS. Products to be: individual sheets sheet modules by subject groupings; screwpost binder/cover (optional); complete package of published sheets; maps or other graphics prepared at the request of other Federal bureaus or programs or to the requirements of other users. Preparation of core content sheets (about 200 sheets) to take 6-8 years; revision and production to continue indefinitely. Subject areas to be: reference (i.e., general maps); physical; economic; socio-cultural; administrative. Gazetteer to be published separately as USGS, Professional paper 1200-US. For more program information: R.B. Southard, Chief, National Mapping Division, USGS, 516 National Center, Reston VA 22092.

National lands index, by Robert P. Markham. $50.00 from Micrographics Laboratory, University of Northern· Colorado, Greeley CO 80639. Includes index of titles (i.e., parks, primitive areas, etc.), index of subjects, index of states & territories, index of coor- dinates, index of maps. All nationally designated non-military lands indicated on USGS topographic maps at 1:250,000 scale, using latest editions to Dec. 1979, are indexed in this publication. Specific map sheets on which features appear· are also listed (1:250,000, 1:62,500, and 1:24,000). In utilitarian computer type face.· Fiche edition of gazetteer from National atlas also available, for $30; both available for $75. base line 2(1):9 NEW MAPS

Offical explorer's map - Northwest Territories. 1980. FREE from: Travel Arctic, Yellowknife NWT XII 2L9.

Mount St. Helens photographs: handsome & awesome; 9-inch for $3, 18-inch $10, 27-inch $15, 36-inch $20. Call EROS Data Center, (604)594-6511x151 for further info, or write them at Sioux Falls SD 57198.

Land status map of the overthrust area in Wyoming and neighboring states; 5 maps in set (blank base with oil & gas fields also available). 1981. $40. Contact: Jim Remsen, Sales Manager, Energy Map Service, Pet- roleum Information, POBox 2612, Denver 80201 (303)825-2181.

Gold maps: check out the publisher's catalog of Many Feathers, South- western Books and Maps, 3617 East Camino Sin Nombre, Paradise Valley Towneship (sic) AZ 85253 (602)957-2615.

Topographic maps on microfiche: if not NCIC, Micrographics Laboratory at the James A. Michener Library, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley 80639; sells Colorado and Wyoming topographic maps on fiche (8 sheets On each fiche), including a physical features index. 234 CO fiche for $240; 242 WY fiche for $250. Also available: USGS 1:250,000 scale series on fiche, for $250 (ISO fiche).

Solar energy map of the U.S.: $9.50 + 1.50 for unfolded, + 1.00 for folded map to: ENMAP Corporation, POBox 4430, Boulder CO 80306.

Landforms of Illinois, by James Bier. FREE from: Illinois State Geological Survey, Natural Resources Building, 615 East Peabody Drive, Champaign IL 61820. NOTE: This is a change of address.

Geothermal energy maps available: funded by the Dept. of Energy/Division of Geothermal Energy, NOAA's National Geophysical and Solar-Terrestrial Data Center, working with numerous state organizations, has published four new geothermal resource maps: Geothermal resources of Idaho; Geothermal resources of Utah; Geothermal resources of Colorado; Geothermal resources of New Mexico. All of these maps are available FREE from: NOAA/NGSDC, Data Mapping Group, Code D64, 325 Broadway, Boulder CO 80303, or call Skip Theberge at (303)497-6124.

Plastic raised relief topographic maps, 1:250,000: Hubbard has perhaps changed its name to Colorgraphics, at 33 Fortune Lane, Rochester NY 14626--or maybe it's a different outfit all together. But they are using the same brochure as did Hubbard. You may draw your own conclusions.

Earthquake faults of California: map of that title available for $5\50 rolled, $5.00 folded, + 5% handling fee from: Varna Enterprises, POBox 2216 Van Nuys CA 91404.

Worldwide coal deposits: 1978 map at 1:23,000,000 scale available for $90 from: Petroconsultants, Cumberland House, Fenian Street, Dublin 2,Ireland. base line 2(1) ;10 DUPLICATE MAPS

Giveaways from Duke University's Perkins Library (contact Kathleen Eisenbeis, Public Docs. & Maps Dept., Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham NC 27706): 1:24,000 scale USGS sheets for Alabama, Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia, DC; about 50 USGS folded maps, primarily of the eastern US - GP-894; GQ-288, 985, 987, 1147, 1158, 1176, 1187, 1201, 1211, 1219, 1226, 1264, 1282, 1405, 1458, 1461, 1518, 1519; HA-430, HA-S24; 1-384, 445, S91-F, 810, 961, 1083, 1086, 1096, 1099, 1118, 1187; MF-812; miscellaneous USGS topo quad maps of Virginia (about 7 sheets).

Giveaways from Colorado School of Mines Library: The following are all-or-nothing deals (i.e., you must take the entire state). You reimburse cost of postage to Arthur Lakes Library; it would also help if you send me mailing containers, as I'm getting very low on map tubes (corrugated paper that USGS sends tops. in is fine). 1) Like to replace your tired old lS'sheets? Direct to you from the mezzanine/attic of one of the Colorado state office buildings (via the Colorado Historical Society and the Mines Library), IS' sheets of almost every state; reasonably complete sets for the time when they were purchased, which was apparently in the 1940s or so. In good shape but brittle and dirty (you would be also if you had spent the past 20 years in an attic). Approximately 50 sheets per state; a good many more than that for Missouri, Virginia. Already taken: Colo., N.M., Wash., Utah, Ariz., Calif., Ore., Ida., Ill. 2) USGS quads of coal-bearing areas in North Dakota and South Dakota; about 3 inches of ND, 2 inches of SD, dating 1950-1970s. 3) USGS quads (some old AMS quads also), 7.5', of Calif.; about 2 inches worth; seemingly no unifying principle. Contact: Mary Larsgaard, Library, Colorado School of Mines,Golden 80401.

Do you have some maps you'd like to get rid of? This space available for BRIEF listings. - - - - CONFERENCE REPORTS

Cartographic Users' Advisory Council meeting, DC, Feb. J: met with Defense Mapping Agency, with the chief item of discussion the 1:250,000 JOG (Joint Operations Graphic) series, which DMA does for foreign countries. Since this mapping is done with the cooperation of the countries, DMA cannot unilaterally expand the depository program to include this series. DMA will solicit releases from countries involved, to permit an expansion; unfortunately, many countries may consider this series the standard map for strategic planning purposes, and are afraid such maps will be used / by their enemies. DMA is planning to resurvey the needs of libraries on the depository program for 1:1,000,000 ONCs, to have one specific person administering the depository program, to attempt to have auto- matic distribution of new products, and to clarify various areas of the depository agreement (i.e., photocopying, ILLs, etc.) as it now stands. The Depository Newsletter will be improved and issued more frequently. CUAC met with USGS's National Mapping Division on Feb. 2, and discussed indexing of USGS publications, expanded distribution of the MF series base line 2(1):11 •

(if GPO is willing to handle, USGS will cooperate, but cannot handle the distribution alone), the new booklet format of the index to topographic maps and other maps issued by USGS (generally objected to by CUAC), the distribution of orthophotoquacls (a survey of depositories to determine extent of coverage required will be undertaken), the National Atlas (reported on elsewhere in this issue), and the distri~ tion programs of USGS and GPO. The entire basis upon which USGS dis- tributes their products to libraries is being reexamined; economics may dictate some consolidation, and the whole idea of free distribution is being questioned, with the oJ.ternative the printing and marketing of USGS map products out-to-bid for commercialization. The possibility of distributing other mapping products via USGS's program is being discussed; DMA products are an example of such products. GPO's system, whereby libraries may be selective in items received, and where claiming procedures are well developed, is being looked at by USGS.

(NOTE: If readers have any specific questions relating to topics in the above brief report, they should contact Charley Seavey, University of New Mexico, who is chair of CUAC. Address given on p. 2 of this issue. A special thanks to Stan Stevens for supplying the report from which the above was taken.)

J ALA Midwinter Meetings of RTSD Committee on Cataloging : Description and Access (CCDA) (taken from reports by: Robert Karrow, The Newberry Library; and Dorothy McGarry, UCLA) On Friday, January 30, the Committee examined in some detail the manual produced by the Anglo-American Cataloging Committee for Cartographic Materials (AACCCM). Janet Hill, a CCDA member and formerly of the cataloging section at LC's Geography and Map Division, had prepared a lengthy critique. Ben Tucker, LC representative to CCDA and a member of AACCCM, pointed out that the draft which Ms. Hill had seen was an early one, and thus many of the criticisms she made had been recognized and corrected. For the most part, CCDA endorsed the manual as ammended by the proposals from the library of Congress.

On Sunday, February 1, a special hearing was held to discuss the descrip- tion of microforms of previously-published works, the basic problem being that AACR2 requires the description of an item to be based on physical object in hand rather than previous version, thus relegating data about the original work to a note. The MAGERT representative to CCDA, Robert Karrow, pointed out that AACR2 rules meant that a microfiche reproduction of an 1850 plan of Washington, D.C. might appear in a truncated entry as: Mitchell, S. A. New map of Washington. 1978. thus misleading the patron into thinking this were a current road map. He also stated that MAGERT was more interested in seeing the solution to the problem be applicable to the whole range of "facsimiles, photocopies, and other reproductions" than in the specific mechanisms adopted. The feelings against the AACR2 method of microform cataloging were so overwhelming that CCDA met in a special session on February 3rd to discuss action, and decided to form a new task force to study the issue,to come up with language that could be used to revise AACR2, and to present such language to the Joint Steering Committee for action after the ALA meeting in San Francisco in June. This task force is to look into all forms of reprints, including photocopies and facsimiles.

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CONTACT: Price not yet set; nag Mr. Cobb about it. David A. Cobb Map & Geography Library 418 University Library University of Illinois Urbana IL 61801

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