From: Mark Jackson [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 1:32 PM
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
Subject: Re: Usefulness of old gazetteers?

 

I should have thought of this. We have scanned our Gazetteer to AMS 1:25,000 Maps of East Germany (AMS Series M841) from 1955 and put them on Internet Archive and they are some of the most popular items we have ever put up (https://archive.org/details/byumapcollections shows over 1,600 downloads). If you want to let me know the specifics of which gazetteers you are thinking of discarding I can see if we have them and digitize them. Alternatively, if you want to send them to me I’m happy to put them in the queue for upload to the Internet Archive.  

 

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Dr. Mark Jackson

Research Librarian

Geography ∙ Geology ∙ Civil Engineering ∙ CM ∙ FPM ∙ IT

Brigham Young University

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From: Redmond, Edward James [ <mailto:[log in to unmask]> mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 12:53 PM
To: 'Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship'
Subject: RE: Usefulness of old gazetteers?

 

Like many, I suspect, I have rarely use bound  AMS/DMA gazetteers anymore.

 

However, several of our staff still prefer to use them for place name browsing and coordinate comparisons.  In some cases, only the bound gazetteers solves the issue.   

 

Is anyone out there “pdfing” these bound volumes for local use? The information contained in these volumes would still be available for browsing but shelf space would open up. (And would not to rely on geonet)

 

Ed Redmond

Reference Specialist,

Geography and Map Division

Library of Congress
Washington, DC

202-707-8548

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From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship [ <mailto:[log in to unmask]> mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 12:44 PM
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Subject: Usefulness of old gazetteers?

 

 

 

From: Ken Rockwell [ <mailto:[log in to unmask]> mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 10:57 AM
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
Subject: Usefulness of old gazetteers?

 

The Marriott Library is currently discarding or redistributing lots of decades-old government documents.  Among the candidates for withdrawal a number of older gazetteers published by the “War Department, Army Map Service, and later by Defense Mapping Agency. I can’t say I’ve used any of them for a long while, so I’m amenable to their withdrawal, but I thought I’d check with colleagues on whether there’s still a reason to keep them around.  Any comments?

 

---Ken Rockwell

University of Utah