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Subject: Re: USGS Outsources
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005
From: Liz Paulus <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
I heard about this last week at the Council of Geographic Names
Authorities (COGNA) conference in Portland -- it's really upsetting. I
talked with career cartographers like the one mentioned in the article
who will not be finding jobs anywhere soon, and the loss of
institutional memory and expertise is alarming.
Liz Paulus
Librarian
Portland, Oregon
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>Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:16:34 -0500
>From: "Angie Cope, AGSL" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: MAPS-L: USGS Outsources
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>Subject: USGS Outsources
>Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005
>From: David Cobb <[log in to unmask]>
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>Yesterdays Federal ComputerWeek - www.fcw.com/article91117-10-17-05-Print -
>reveals the "death" of the paper map looms ever closer! On a more positive
>note, however, maybe we won't have to keep buying those nasty map cases.
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>David Cobb
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>Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:12:26 -0500
>From: "Angie Cope, AGSL" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: MAPS-L: USGS Outsources
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>Subject: Re: MAPS-L: USGS Outsources
>Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005
>From: Brian Bach <[log in to unmask]>
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>I daresay, it will be most interesting to note how users of any
>outsourced USGS map products respond to their quality and offerings. If
>good old American free enterprise is going to make a cavalry charge to
>save poor, ailing USGS from making a fool out of itself, the results
>better be worthwhile! Call me a curmudgeon, but I am wary when aspects
>of our ADD-influenced society seep into the library world, which is
>founded on principles of patience and permanence (relative terms,
>naturally).
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>Bravo to modern mapping technology for aiding in natural disasters
>(e.g. Katrina rescue maps). But in the context of acquired map
>collections in libraries, as Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson exclaimed in
>'It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World': 'What's the rush??'
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>One thing is certain: our library will maintain our paper map
>collection in perpetuity (or...well... as long as I'm around!). In my
>humble opinion, its value will only increase with time.
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>All best,
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>Brian
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>Brian P. Bach
>Documents/Maps
>Brooks Library
>Central Washington University
>400 E. University Way
>Ellensburg, WA 98926-7548
>USA
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>Subject: USGS Outsources
>Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005
>From: David Cobb <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>Yesterdays Federal ComputerWeek -
>www.fcw.com/article91117-10-17-05-Print -
>reveals the "death" of the paper map looms ever closer! On a more
>positive
>note, however, maybe we won't have to keep buying those nasty map
>cases.
>
>David Cobb
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>Harvard Map Collection FAX 617.496.0440
>Harvard College Library Email:
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