Manual of Library Economy / Third and Memorial Edition

by James Duff Brown; W. C. Berwick Sayers

Class No. of Town.|Geology No.|Date.

441.

441. The cataloguing of maps may follow the Anglo-American rule, which runs:

Enter maps under the cartographer. If the name of the cartographer is not found, enter under the publisher; thus:

Gregory, C. C. M’Millan’s map of New Brunswick. Drawn by C. C. Gregory. Scale of statute miles ca. 8 to the inch.

Johnston, W. and A. K., pub. Johnston’s commercial and library chart of the world on Mercator’s projection.

This simple rule needs some amplification for a large collection of maps; and the following simple rules have been found to be satisfactory:

1. The Arrangement of entries is in chronological order, and where two entries occur under one date they are arranged alphabetically by the heading.

2. The Name adopted for Heading is that of the cartographer where found; where the cartographer is not found, the publisher, or engraver, or title (in this order) forms the entry word.