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Subject:        article of interest on geographic search
Date:   Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:34:38 -0400
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The latest issue of College & Research Libraries (Sept. 2007, p. 376-387)
has an article by Michael Buckland et al. (6 authors, mostly from UC
Berkeley) entitled "Geographic Search: Catalogs, Gazetteers, and Maps" that
may be of interest to map people, though it also pertains to geographic
searching for non-map resources.  It looks at the kinds of geographic data
that catalog records contain but that are underused for searching purposes,
discusses extending search capabilities, georeferencing place name
authority records, and using maps as catalog interfaces.  (FYI, full text
is available online for ACRL members only via
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crljournal/backissues2007a/crlsept07/September_07.cfm)

Nancy A. Kandoian
Map Cataloger
The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
The New York Public Library
5th Ave. & 42nd St.
New York, NY  10018-2788

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