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Subject: RE: Natural scale rulers
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:06:05 +0000
From: Bob Thomas <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>

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Allison,

If you use OCLC's Connexion client software for cataloging, Walter
Nickeson has written the CalcScale macro that replaces the scale rulers.
Our map catalogers use this (and love it). Just give it the measurement
of the scale in inches or centimeters, and the length of the scale in
miles, yards, feet, meters or kilometers, and it converts the
information into a representative fraction. The CalcScale macro is
available at:
http://docushare.lib.rochester.edu/docushare/dsweb/View/Collection-2556

Bob Thomas
Integrated Systems Librarian & Head of Cataloging
Western Washington University Libraries
Bellingham, WA

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Subject:        Natural scale rulers
Date:   Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:55:00 -0400
From:   Allison Rich <[log in to unmask]>
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Organization:   John Carter Brown Library
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Hi All;

We have started to properly catalogue our maps and we are having a very
difficult time getting natural scale indicator rulers.

On the Western Association of Map Libraries website, it lists:

*Map Scale Indicator Sources* - Clear plastic map scale indicators:
Available for $18.00 (US or Canadian) from Dr. Cliff Wood, Professor
(Retired), Memorial University, P.O. Box 225, Ilderton, Ontario, Canada,
N0M 2A0.

We have tried contacting him but there is no answer.
Do we have an old address?

Is there some alternative source for the rulers?
We would be looking for 3 of them.

Thanks for you help,
~Allison

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"Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend,
and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx"

Allison Rich
Rare Books Cataloguer
John Carter Brown Library
Providence, Rhode Island
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