The Federal Documents regional depositories retain all maps for the 50
states whether it is they themselves or through a housing agreement with
another depository.

Now they may not all be found via the online catalog but if you call them at
the desk, they can help you find them and retrieve them.

For a list of Federal regional depositories around the country go to:

        http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/tools/ldirect.html

        --Then, scroll down to the search engine and type the word REGIONAL
        --To the left of the search engine, click on the down arrow and
          select SELECTIVE or REGIONAL (spell out)
        --click on submit

The search will produce the names of the 54 regional depositories around the
country that should have topographic maps for the 50 states.


Carlos A. Diaz
Government Documents/Maps
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, Washington
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Over and over I see map libraries getting rid of their non-regional topos
and sending them off to other libraries around the US.

What is happening here? Is this a result of topos being available on the
web and cds? Is it a space issue? Budget issue?

Are there libraries that are committed to retaining as complete collections
as possible [all 50 states, including back issues] for research use?  Seems
to me the map library community should be aware of locations of
retrospective USGS topos, outside of the National Archives. So far NYPL has
been able to retain ours, despite moving non-northeast historical sheets to
remote storage. Budget cuts or space issues some day may require more
drastic moves, but so far...

Which libraries around the country are retaining their entire USGS
collections? topos that is...Just curious!

Alice C. Hudson
Chief, Map Division
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
The New York Public Library
5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117
New York, NY 10018-2788

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http://nypl.org/research/chss/map/map.html


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