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Subject:        Re: Two questions: (1) Geologic maps of Georgia, and (2) is
there a registry of scanned documents?
Date:   Wed, 29 Jan 2014 06:22:53 -0600
From:   Mike Flannigan <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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Let me point out a few things about the registry noted.
When you go to the Worldcat option and type in "15 minute"
and limit the format to "Map" on the left you get a list
that starts with Pisgah National Forest 7.5 minutes series.

When you select option 4) "15 minute series (topographic)
[maps of the United States]" you get a list of libraries
and their distance from your location.  Clicking on those
library names takes you to LibCat at that library where
you need to do another search of their catalog.

I don't see any online sources of 15 minute series topographic
maps listed at that registry, but I know there are some that exist.
The USGS Interactive Mapping System (IMS) is one.  A search for
that leads to the Tampa Bay Integrated Science Pilot Study with a
bunch of dead links on the left side for "Maps and Aerial Photographs".

It would be nice to have a registry that listed online
sources for maps, and perhaps a coordinated effort to
get repositories to supply additional material.  In other
words show what is not available yet, but is still wanted.

I know it takes money to serve up maps online, but I am surprised
by the scarcity of libraries (and private sources) that attempt
to do this.


Mike Flannigan



On 1/27/2014 11:04 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
>
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> In answer to your second question, there is a map scanning registry
> sponsored by the Map and Geospatial Information Roundtable of the
> American Library Association (MAGIRT) and the Western Association of
> Map Libraries (WAML): http://mapregistry.library.arizona.edu/. You'll
> see links on the home page also to the registry of US government
> documents and a suggestion for searching Worldcat. (I'm the current
> president of WAML, and while I can't speak for the rest of the exec
> board or MAGIRT, I'd be happy to talk if you wanted to work together
> in some capacity on the registry if you thought that would be helpful
> in some way.)
>
> I think the registry can always use some promotion so folks remember
> to document their projects and collections in it, so this is a good
> time to plug its usefulness! So, all maps-l denizens, if you answer
> Dave back that you have done some scanning and your collection is not
> in the registry---please add it! J
>
> -Katie
>
> Katie Lage
>
> Map Librarian, Head, Jerry Crail Johnson Earth Sciences & Map Library
>
> Sciences Department, University Libraries
>
> 184 UCB
>
> University of Colorado
>
> Boulder, CO 80309
>
> 303-735-4917
>
> http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/earthsciences/
>