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On:  Thu, 4 Apr 1996 10:56:27 EST
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> Margaret,
>
>           you might try
>           http://fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu/mapbase/index.html
>
>           this is a sheet inventory. it include nautical charts--but
>           maybe not Brtish ones, yet. we're linking our map series
>           records to it on a web version of our catalog, which is not
>           evident yet.
>
>           regards.
>
>           LC
>
 
 
Larry;
 
Can you give us an overview of what and how you are linking your
records to Fieber's site?
 
Patrick
 
 
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> Hello Map-Lers,
>
> I am not a subsciber to the list but it has been suggested that you might be
> able to help me.
>
> I am looking for an internet library catalogue which has strong coverage in
> maps. I have already checked OCLC and RLIN and neither of them had records
> for the maps I want.
>
> We have about 30,000 maps to catalogue individually rather than in series. We
> are cataloguing them from lists with the information provided by student
> assistants.  The maps are housed in another building, so I do not have them
> in front of me when I make the catalogue record.
>
> A sample of the maps I am attemping to catalogue are:
> - Land utilization survey of Britain, Ordinance Survey maps (1960s and 1970s)
> - Australian aeronautical maps - RAAF maps of 1943-1944.
> - Admiralty charts - London - late 19th and early 20th centuries.
> - Maps in the series France et des frontieres.
> - European air maps from the war years.
> - G.S.G.S. Army/air maps of the war years.
>
> Please reply directly to me as I don't subscribe to this list.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Many thanks
> Margaret Ferguson
>
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