Mapping the
World Statistics
BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY
Country Summary: see list of countries
completed
World
Map shows coverage at Birmingham
| Cambridge | Edinburgh | London | Manchester | Oxford | Imperial |
Statistics
From Year 2: (Sept. 2000 onwards)
| Record type | Sept | % type | Oct | % type | Nov | % type | Dec | % type |
| Original | 244 | 87.2 | 251 | 76.1 | 206 | 74.1 | 220 | 92.5 |
| Talis | 1 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.3 | - | 1 | 0.4 | |
| CURL | 3 | 1.1 | 1 | 0.3 | - | - | ||
| RLIN | 19 | 6.8 | 55 | 16.7 | 68 | 24.5 | 2 | 0.8 |
| Added copy | 13 | 4.6 | 22 | 6.6 | 4 | 1.4 | 15 | 6.3 |
| Monthly total | 280 | 330 | 278 | 238 | ||||
| Running total | 280 | 610 | 888 | 1126 |
From January 2001:
| Record type | Jan | % type | Feb | % type | March | % type | April | % type |
| Original | 311 | 82.7 | 383 | 80.5 | 288 | 70.1 | 245 | 66.6 |
| Talis | - | - | 2 | 0.4 | 2 | 0.5 | 28 | 7.6 |
| CURL | 19 | 5.1 | 2 | 0.4 | 4 | 0.9 | 29 | 7.9 |
| RLIN | 23 | 6.1 | 52 | 10.9 | 92 | 22.4 | 34 | 9.2 |
| Added copy | 23 | 6.1 | 37 | 7.8 | 25 | 6.1 | 32 | 8.7 |
| Monthly total | 376 | 476 | 411 | 368 | ||||
| Running total | 1502 | 1978 | 2389 | 2757 |
| Record type | May | % type | June | % type | July | % type | August | % type | Sept. |
| Original | 297 | 74.2 | 229 | 82.4 | 219 | 72.0 | 291 | 93.3 | 6 |
| Talis | - | - | - | - | 5 | 1.6 | - | - | - |
| CURL | 23 | 5.8 | 23 | 8.3 | 57 | 18.8 | - | - | - |
| RLIN | 56 | 14.0 | 5 | 1.8 | 7 | 2.3 | 3 | 1.0 | - |
| Added copy | 24 | 6.0 | 21 | 7.5 | 16 | 5.3 | 18 | 5.7 | - |
| Monthly total | 400 | 278 | 304 | 312 | 6 | ||||
| Running total | 3157 | 3435 | 3739 | 4051 | 4057 |
Project work "completed" August 31st 2001; plus one extra day in September for local administrative reasons.
Key
Talis - Library system
RLIN - external database of Research Libraries Group
CURL - database of Consortium of University Research Libraries
| Project Years 2-3 | Original records | RLIN | OCLC | CURL | Talis | Other (added sheets) |
| Sept 00 - July 01 | 2893 | 413 | n/a | 161 | 40 | 232 |
| Aug 01 - Sept 01 | 297 | 3 | n/a | - | 18 | |
| Total | 3190 | 416 | - | 161 | 40 | 250 |
| % of total | 78 % | 10.3 % | - | 3.9 % | 1.0 % | 6.2 % |
| Year 2 (all records) | 3739 | |||||
| Year 3 (all records) | 318 | |||||
| Grand total | 4057 |
Country summary
| Country | General remarks |
| Africa | Completed |
| Countries Benin (Dahomey), Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
Completed |
| Regions Central Africa, East Africa, Northeast Africa, West Africa and French West Africa & North Africa. South Africa & Southern Africa |
Completed |
| Atlantic
Ocean and Islands: Ascension Island, Bermuda, Canary Islands, Falkland Islands and dependencies, St. Helena, Tristan da Cunha. |
Completed |
| Australasia | Completed |
| Baltic
States (Estonia, Lativia, Lithuania) |
Completed (5 maps only) |
| Borneo, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Indonesia, & Philippines | Completed |
| British Antarctic Territory | Completed |
| British West Indies: Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago | Completed |
| Central and Eastern Europe | Completed |
| China & Hong Kong | Completed |
| Czech
Republic and Slovakia (and the former Czechoslovakia) |
Completed |
| Cyprus | Completed |
| Denmark (including Faroe Islands) | Completed |
| Finland | Completed |
| Germany (East and West) | Completed |
| Greenland | Completed |
| Iceland | Completed |
| Indian Ocean and Islands: Mauritius & Seychelles | Completed |
| Japan | General maps completed. Special collection of maps in Japanese |
| Luxembourg | Completed (a small collection) |
| Middle East | Completed |
| North America: Canada & the United States | Completed |
| Norway (including Svalbard islands) | Completed |
| Pacific Ocean and Islands: Fiji, Guam, Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu | Completed |
| Poland | Completed |
| Scandinavia | Completed general maps |
| South America: Chile, Colombia, Guyana (British Guiana), Peru, Uruguay, & Venezuela | Completed |
| Sweden | Completed |
| Switzerland | Completed |
| The World | Completed |
Note: Country holdings are smaller than those in the Copyright deposit
libraries.
Sample UK MARC record: Germany
Map records available on the University of Birmingham, Information Services online library catalogue
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Geographic coverage notes
Alphabetical listing main country listing