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Subject:        Re: Map images through an online catalog
Date:   Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:46:45 -0500
From:   Edward James Redmond <[log in to unmask]>
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Here at LC we provide access to map images in two ways:

1) Via handles in bibliographic records such as the following bib. record
http://lccn.loc.gov/99466768

2)  The same image can be found (outside of the LC OPAC) by  searching the ibrary's Map Collections web site by author, keyword, geographic location, etc.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3883f.ct000355




Ed Redmond
Geography & Map Reference Specialist
Geography and Map Division
Library of Congress
101 Independence Ave, SE
Washington, DC 20540-4651
(202) 707-8548
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Subject:        Map images through an online catalog
Date:   Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:37:41 -0500
From:   Bob Kibbee <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi,

Are any map librarians linking to their own map image database from a
Voyager catalog or from WorldCat Local? We do this for the David
Rumsey maps, but I wonder if anyone is linking from a map record in
their OPAC to the specific individual image in their own database of
map images.

Any information would be great. And in fact linking strategies from
any of the standard OPACs would be interesting.

Bob


Bob Kibbee
Map & GIS Librarian
Map and Geospatial Information Collection
B17 Olin Library, Cornell University
Ithaca,  New York    14853-5301
voice 607-255-9566 / fax 607-255-3609