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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 11:09:40 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
From: Mark Thomas <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: NIMA Chart Distribution (was: NIMA series 1144)
 
 
Paul and everyone should know that Robin Haun-Mohamed and the
folks at GPO are aware of the problems with the distribution of
NIMA charts.  They have been meeting with NIMA to work out the
details of moving chart distribution from the Defense Logistics
Agency in Richmond to GPO in Washington, and GPO's nautical chart
survey last fall (check with your federal docs librarian if this
doesn't ring a bell) was part of their attempt to work this out.
Robin, at GODORT's Federal Agency Update at ALA Midwinter,
mentioned their ongoing negotiations with NIMA, so it isn't
anything secret;  it will just apparently take a little time.
 
Some libraries apparently didn't get any charts from Richmond
after they moved distribution there from Philadelphia last
summer.  Some places, like us, did get a bundle of them
from Richmond after a hiatus of a few months, but then it dried
up again in the fall.  There has been, perhaps, a corruption of
the NIMA mailing list database as there had been a couple of
years ago with the DMA database, a reason for GPO's survey last
fall.
 
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On Fri, 5 Feb 1999 16:30:06 -0500 Johnnie Sutherland
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> Date: Thu, 04 Feb 99 14:22:23 -0800
> From: Paul Leverenz <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re[2]: NIMA series 1144 <fwd>
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>      Jim, et.al.: NIMA series 1144 sheet 1 is the least of my NIMA problem
>      here at Scripps Inst. Oceanography.  SIO Library has not received any
>      of the NIMA nauticals nor aeronauticals since Summer 1998.  This is
>      very unusual as we have received a steady batch of approximately 40 or
>      so a month for the last few decades via GPO Depository.  I think
>      someone on a different listserv brought the aeronautical problem to
>      the attention of the California folks; but only elicited mute yawns
>      from the group.  I have tried over the past several months various
>      e-mails to GPO administrators to find out where NIMA has been with
>      their charts but nothing satisfactory has been done to get the program
>      issuances back on track.  Thus, I am curious: are others in the same
>      boat concerning the dearth of NIMA products? Could someone perhaps
>      nudge NIMA into a semi-lucid state to answer these queries?  Oh well.
>      I thought not.
>
>      - PML
>
 
 
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