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Subject: Re: MAPS-L: Maps in Current Newspapers
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005
From: David J. Bertuca <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>


I've been looking at this problem as well. for now, I have been making an
informal index of my own to "re-find" these types of maps. Of course it is
limited to those maps that I discover or that are directed by colleagues to
me.

A 2nd method is to keep a thumbnail of the image (print out or .gif/jpg
file) with citation info.

the online maps are both easier and harder than ones in print. easier if
they stay put, but news companies don't always keep things around or
available. And we get asked this type of question all the time and have to
go hunting again.

David J. Bertuca, Map Librarian

David J. Bertuca
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--On Tuesday, October 11, 2005 1:10 PM -0500 "Angie Cope, AGSL"
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> Subject: Maps in Current Newspapers
> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005
> From: Bob Kibbee <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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> All,
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> I'm interested in what policies you all have in place for acquiring maps
> in
> current newspapers. We will usually clip and add maps that have possible
> historical or reference value from local newspapers, but I'm wondering
> about, e.g. maps from the NYTimes. Do we just assume that the maps
> produced
> there are being archived somewhere by the NYT itself and will be available
> for  researchers, at least subscribing researchers? (Library subscriptions
> through aggregators such as Factiva and Lexis Academic don't include
> graphics.) Is there a need / obligation to make them discoverable and
> available in a cataloged map collection? Are there legal constraints on
> adding the paper clipping, a photocopy of it, a scan of it, a print from
> the graphic from the NYTimes site itself?
>
> Take a feature article from October 10th, "As Polar Ice Turns to Water,
> Dreams of Treasure Abound," which features three dramatic maps of the
> arctic. These maps would seem to be useful to any program working with
> arctic regions. Can these maps be added to our collection; should they be?
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> This may be a more pressing issue now that journalistic cartography seems
> to be exploding in volume and sophistication.
>
> Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
>
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>                                             Bob
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> Bob Kibbee
> Map & GIS Librarian
> Instruction, Research & Information Services (IRIS)
> 017 Olin Library, Cornell University
> Ithaca,  New York    14853-5301
> voice 607-255-9566 / fax 607-255-9346
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