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From: "Jon Jablonski" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Air Photo Maps, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 9:40:55 PM
Subject: Re: Weeding USGS topographic maps


We have had zero requests to print the new or historic topo maps.
And since moving the vast majority of our topo holding offsite, there
have been next to zero requests for to see them.

Jon Jablonski
Map & Imagery Laboratory
UC Santa Barbara

----- "Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee"
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> In the past year or two the N&O lists indicate that an increasing
> number
> of federal depository libraries have been weeding large chunks or all
> of
> their printed USGS topographic maps, since they are now available
> online
> at the National Map website, http://nationalmap.gov/ustopo/ .  If
> your
> library has been heavily weeding your printed topographic maps, do
> you
> have a plotter to print maps for patrons who would like a printed
> copy,
> and has there been any dissatisfaction expressed by patrons or
> faculty
> members about the migration of topographic maps from printed format
> to
> online access?
>
>
> Any observations you might care to share would be most welcome.
> Thanks!
>
> Hans Raum
> Reference and Instruction Librarian
> Government Documents Librarian
> 211 Davis Family Library
> 110 Storrs Avenue
> Middlebury College
> Middlebury, VT 05753
> (802) 443-5493
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