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Craig Best <[log in to unmask]>
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Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 18 Jul 1996 08:27:32 EDT
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----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Starting with the 1994 TIGER/Line files, the Bureau began zipping the files.
The 1994
TIGER/Line CDs are on 6 disks.
 
At 02:56 PM 7/17/96 EDT, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>     They're classified TD because they came from the Dept. of
>     Transportation. And I can't believe they are the full TIGER files
>     because the whole US is covered in something like 6 cd's, not the 1 or
>     2 cd's per state that the TIGER 92's are.
>
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>Subject: TIGER94 files
>Author:  Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]> at SOS08410
>Date:    7/15/96 3:27 PM
>
>
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Well, what did I find in my library after posting
>a query about a 6 CD set of TIGER95 files?  What
>else but the set I asked about except that they
>are called TIGER94 and issues in 1995.  And why
>did I miss them?  Because I looked in our CD cabinet
>under the SuDoc designation for Census but that's
>not where they are (altho TIGER90 and TIGER92 were).
>They've been classified as TD for Dept. of Transportation
>which is listed as a "sponsor" or some such (I don't
>have the CD's in front of me now so can't quote the
>wording.)  What a surprise. I wonder how GPO will
>classify the TIGER95 CD's.
>  I found the set with a key word search of our
>OPAC. This should be a lesson to me to do what I
>tell our patrons to do--look first in the OPAC!
>  Maureen Harris, Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC
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Craig Best
Supervisory Geographer
US Bureau of the Census
Kansas City Regional Office
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