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Subject: RE: Natural scale rulers
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:11:03 -0700
From: Ratliff, Louise <[log in to unmask]>
To: 'Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship'
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To bring in the two macrobooks: Macro book Essentials and Macro book
Extras, click on each of their names (about halfway down the list of
macros) and download each one. Then copy them into your Connexion
program folder. (Ours are here:
C:\Program Files\OCLC\Connexion\Program\Macros ).
To select a macro to run from Connexion, select Tools--Macros--Manage,
and open the folder you want. Select the desired macro and click on
Run. You can also map the macro to a hot key.
Cheers,
Louise
Louise Ratliff
Social Sciences and Map Catalog Librarian
UCLA Cataloging & Metadata Center
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From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope, American
Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 1:34 PM
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Subject: Re: Natural scale rulers
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Subject: RE: Natural scale rulers
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:24:33 -0500
From: Linda K Ginn <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
Here is what I did, and it all seemed to work except for copying to
clipboard.
http://docushare.lib.rochester.edu/docushare/dsweb/View/Collection-2556
Click on the CalcScale macro link -- the title -- (4th in the list that
displayed to me) to open the macro text in a browser window.
Copy the whole text of the macro.
Go to Connexion and click on Tools/Macros/Manage/New Book. (I named the
new macro book MapScaleCalc).
Within the macro book, create a new macro named CalcScale (the title
Nickeson gave it, first line of macro text).
Paste the copied text into the macro and save it.
Assign a key to it in your keymap.
To try it I opened an empty map record (as if I were creating a new
one). I put my cursor in 034 (not sure if this is necessary) and pressed
the hot key I'd assigned. The dialog box came up and I made up some
numbers. I put in .5 for inches and 1000 for miles, clicked ok and got
results: 1:126,720,000.
Linda K. Ginn
Assistant Professor & Catalog Librarian
Head, General Collections Unit
The University of Southern Mississippi
118 College Dr #5053
Hattiesburg MS 39406-0001
601.266.6398
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attached to the outcome." (Susan Buffett)
-----Original Message-----
From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope, American
Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 3:06 PM
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Subject: Re: Natural scale rulers
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Subject: Re: Natural scale rulers
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:49:12 -0400
From: Stone, Howard <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
The Docushare website says that there's a dialog box, but I can't
figure out how to get to it. Can someone give me a hand?
Thanks,
Howard Stone
Map Cataloger, Brown University.
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Angie Cope, American Geographical
Society Library, UW Milwaukee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> 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]>
>
> ------------------
> 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
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Natural scale rulers
> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:55:00 -0400
> From: Allison Rich <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
> Organization: John Carter Brown Library
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
> 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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