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Subject:        RE: Forest Service 7.5 minute topos in with USGS
Date:   Mon, 4 Aug 2008 16:36:00 -0700
From:   Diaz, Carlos <[log in to unmask]>
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As I recall, the U.S. Forest did publish their own maps.  They updated the USGS maps, but a few years ago the U.S. Forest Service and the USGS merged in the publishing of the Forest Service maps and they are now being published by the USGS.

In our Maps Collection, we interfile both maps.  We don't separate them.  It is just much easier to find them that way.  Yes, I even mix 7.5 minte with 15 minute series.

I shelve them by the quadrangle name so it can be more browsable and easier to find for our patrons.

Carlos A. Diaz
Government Documents/Maps
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, Washington
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From: "Mary R McInroy" <[log in to unmask]>
To: MAPS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Sent: Friday, August 1, 2008 8:52:25 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Forest Service 7.5 minute topos in with USGS




Greetings.

A new student worker picked up on the fact that some outdated 7.5 minute topos coming into the Map Collection from our Geology Library were actually those modified by the Forest Service for specific national forests. We isolated them, and I can figure out which forests they belong to and can even find GPO cataloging for the 7.5 minute national forest topo sets (we have historically cataloged national forest sets under LC, and not kept them with the USGS 7.5 minute sets).



I now wonder how many other examples of this are lurking in the map drawers of the Geology Library (not my concern yet, as I’ll be on the lookout from now on) and my own Map Collection (definitely my concern).



A couple of questions-

How do <you all> handle these separate national forest sets?

How horrid is it that some Forest Service maps are in the USGS 7.5 minute drawers? I think the worst part might be that we tossed a USGS map with the same date, assuming they were dups. Although I am hoping issuing dates are different, and we have kept both the Forest Service version and the USGS version.





Many thanks for any insights on this, on or off list.

Mary MC.



Mary McInroy

Reference & Library Instruction/ Map Collection

University of Iowa Libraries Iowa City, IA 52242-1420

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