RDA and Cartographic Resources

Paige G. Andrew is the Maps Cataloging Librarian at the Pennsylvania State University Libraries, holding the rank of Full Librarian. He participates in three of the Library of Congress Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) programs: BIBCO, NACO, and SACO. He has published articles on the bibliographic control of cartographic materials and related topics in professional journals such as Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, and authored Cataloging Sheet Maps: The Basics (Haworth Information Press, 2003). He co-edited, with Mary Lynette Larsgaard, Maps and Related Cartographic Materials: Cataloging, Classification, and Bibliographic Control (Haworth Information Press, 1999), and with Larsgaard is co-founder of and continues as co-editor of the Journal of Map and Geography Libraries: Advances in Geospatial Information, Collections and Archives. He has served his profession as an officer and as chair of many committees, including those of the Special Libraries Association, the American Library Association, and several others. He continues to share his expertise in map cataloging through workshops given at conferences and individual institutions as well as through formal presentations. He was the recipient of the 2009 Nancy B. Olson Award for significant contributions to audiovisual cataloging by OLAC (Online Audiovisual Catalogers, Inc.).

Susan M. Moore is a Catalog Librarian and Bibliographer at the Rod Library at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She has been teaching map cataloging workshops since 1999. She is a member of the Map and Geospatial Information Round (MAGIRT) of the American Library Association, currently chairs the MAGIRT Committee on Cataloging and Classification and is the MAGIRT liaison to the Library of Congress' MARC Advisory Committee. She recently received the MAGIRT Honors Award in 2009.

Mary Lynette Larsgaard (1946-2017) was Librarian Emeritus of the UCSB Libraries, and was also formerly Assistant Head and then Head of the Map and Imagery Laboratory, Davidson Library, University of California at Santa Barbara. She published extensively in the field of cartographic resources in libraries, most notably Map Librarianship: An Introduction, now in its third edition. Her specialties were cataloging/metadata creation, and collection development and other aspects of twentieth-century and more recent topographic and geologic maps.