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Subject:	Gazeteers - how important?
From:	"Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
Date:	Tue, 14 Jun 2011 08:27:44 -0500
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Subject: Gazeteers - how important?
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:48:49 +0000
From: Robert Lopresti <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>

We are in the midst of consolidating our map library into the main
library.  I have approximately 22 shelves of paper gazetteers from
around the world.  Most but not all our from the US government, and the
most recent seem to be from the 1990s.  Most are from the 1950s to 1970s.

My question is: how useful/important are they today?  Should I be saving
eight shelves worth of them?

Thanks,
Rob
Rob Lopresti
Map Librarian, Liaison for Huxley College and Government Information
Librarian
Western Washington University
360-650-3342   [log in to unmask]

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