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Subject: RE:Gazeteers - how important?
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:27:36 -0700
From: Diaz, Carlos <[log in to unmask]>
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Well, a gazetteer from the Soviet Union would be valuable since the
geographic names would have changed due to end of the Cold War.  You
might want to retain eastern Europe gazetteers, as well as, Africa
gazetteers since name changes occur quite a bit in that part of the
world.  Anywhere, where there has been political instability that
affects geographic names would be good to retain for historical purposes.

For example:  Leningrad (Soviet Union) brought back its old name (St.
Petersburg, Russia).

Anybody doing research of eastern Europe would want that kind of
information including genealogists.


Carlos A. Diaz
Daniel J. Evans Library
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, Washington
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Subject: Gazeteers - how important?

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Subject: Gazeteers - how important?
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:48:49 +0000
From: Robert Lopresti <[log in to unmask]>
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We are in the midst of consolidating our map library into the main
library.  I have approximately 22 shelves of paper gazetteers from
around the world.  Most but not all our from the US government, and the
most recent seem to be from the 1990s.  Most are from the 1950s to 1970s.

My question is: how useful/important are they today?  Should I be saving
eight shelves worth of them?

Thanks,
Rob
Rob Lopresti
Map Librarian, Liaison for Huxley College and Government Information
Librarian
Western Washington University
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