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Maps Cataloging Team Statement of Priority:
All Team Members share responsibility for Hand Carry Rush, Rush, and Current receipts. Maintenance and projects are the responsibility of the Team Administrator, Project Leader, or Team members participating in the project as needed.
Specialties:
Most cartographic materials may be finished by any Team member however, a few specialties have been established, for reasons of complexity or because too few items are received to justify training everyone.
| Serials | Paige |
|---|---|
| Digital Resources | Paige/John |
| CD-ROMs | John |
| Metadata | Paige/Steve |
Original cataloging is done by Paige and John; who catalog directly into OCLC. Copy cataloging, original cataloging from edition/related copy, and call number creation is done by Steve and Susan. OCLC Enhance for cartographic material is done by all four Team members.
Languages:
The Maps Library collection features cartographic materials in diverse languages and scripts; the Maps Team accepts responsibility for finding or creating records in any all languages, with the exception of CJK materials. Everyone contributes to providing records for these complex items, but any item may be referred to a more experienced Team member at any time.
Maps Team Quantity Standards:
Generalizing production standards requires assessing a complex variety of constantly changing factors, so, while generating a productivity measure is a useful goal, the result may be more misleading than helpful. That said, the Maps Cataloging Team consists of two members who have Copy cataloging as a primary responsibility, and two members who have Original Cataloging as a primary responsibility, and will attempt to show approximate production standards for each.
Copy Cataloging begins with searching for copy in OCLC; items in the Maps Library are extraordinarily diverse, and often require innovative search techniques to reveal matching or edition copy. The quality of the matching record varies, due to the age of some of the uncataloged collection, and OCLC records may benefit from Enhance or Upgrade attention, or, at minimum, require editing to meet local standards. This often necessitates referring to local or national rules and standards, and may require conferring with another Team member. Call numbers may need to be assigned, and all headings and access points verified in the authority file. Maps materials include a disproportionally high number of multi-part items, and call number and item records are required for each sheet in a set. The Maps Team provides full physical processing of all sheet maps, including marking call numbers, barcoding, and property stamping as needed, which again may include multiple sheets in a set. Additionally, materials that require original cataloging still require thorough copy search, and significant time may be spent looking for copy that won't be found, with no resulting statistics. Due to these complex and unique factors, our copy catalogers tend to produce in the neighborhood of two new records per hour.
The original cataloging process faces many of the same challenges and constraints noted above, especially with language materials, which must be translated or even romanized, as well as adherence to a wider array of rules and rule interpretations. In addition to these factors, original cataloging requires Subject analysis, full and accurate Description, coding data for the fixed field and certain variable fields, and determining and providing access points. More decisions are required, and authoritative headings for personal, corporate, geographic, and occasionally series entries must be researched and created as part of our commitment to the national Program for Cooperative Cataloging's Name and Subject Authority programs. As a result, we tend to average one original record per hour, although this can vary significantly based on language and general complexity.
Maps Team Quality Standards:
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The Maps Team will support personal and professional development whenever possible according to the availability of resources and time in the following order of priority:
