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Subject: RE: AMS maps - Reply and a Query - Cease Work
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 13:13:42 -0600
From: John M Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
Hello All,
Thank you to all who replied. I have offers of reproductions of the
article. I knew the MAPS-L community would come through and faster
than the agencies I contacted.
John
John M. Anderson
Map Librarian and Director
Cartographic Information Center
Department of Geography & Anthropology
LSU
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
(225) 578-6247
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From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope, American
Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 10:24 AM
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Subject: Re: AMS maps - Reply and a Query
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Subject: RE: AMS maps - Reply and a Query
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 08:53:40 -0600
From: John M Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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Hi Rob,
We rely on the 1:250,000-scale AMS maps to provide medium scale map
coverage of most of the world. Some examples of their use last
semester include locating a village for a Geography graduate student in
Eritrea and providing a historical view of the road net around Berlin
for a group of landscape architecture students.
Query for the list about the AMS College Repository Program:
Once I had a copy of an AMS memo dated February 27, 1950 that listed the
institutions in their college repository program. The copy I had was
missing a page and after over the years the whole memo has gone AWOL.
I'm in the process of contacting NGA and the National Archives in hopes
they have a copy. If anybody has a copy of the memo, or suggestions
for another source, I would greatly appreciate the help.
Thank you in advance.
John
John M. Anderson
Map Librarian and Director
Cartographic Information Center
Department of Geography & Anthropology
LSU
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
(225) 578-6247
-----Original Message-----
From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 8:02 AM
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Subject: AMS maps
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Subject: AMS maps
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:29:18 +0000
From: Robert Lopresti <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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I am in the process of weeding our map collection. We have thousands of
maps from the Army Map Service, 1940s-1960s. All around the world, and
mostly in 1:250,000 scale. I see that they seem to be available on the
web in the Perry-Castaneda collection.
Considering that this is a zero-sum game (something has to leave the
collection), my question is: how useful are these today, and in what
circumstances? You can assume we will be keeping those for our core
areas of interest.
Thanks,
Rob
Rob Lopresti
Map Librarian, Liaison for Huxley College and Government Information
Librarian Western Washington University
360-650-3342 [log in to unmask]
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