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Re: Usefulness of old gazetteers?
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From: Kathy Stroud [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 1:13 PM
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Subject: RE: Usefulness of old gazetteers?



You may want to see if they are freely available through Hathi Trust or
Google Books.  I sent a number of them to UC's NRLF which was one of the
collections Google scanned.



Kathy Stroud



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From: Redmond, Edward James [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 12:53 PM
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Like many, I suspect, I have rarely use bound  AMS/DMA gazetteers anymore.



However, several of our staff still prefer to use them for place name
browsing and coordinate comparisons.  In some cases, only the bound
gazetteers solves the issue.



Is anyone out there "pdfing" these bound volumes for local use? The
information contained in these volumes would still be available for browsing
but shelf space would open up. (And would not to rely on geonet)



Ed Redmond

Reference Specialist,

Geography and Map Division

Library of Congress
Washington, DC

202-707-8548

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From: Ken Rockwell [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 10:57 AM
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Subject: Usefulness of old gazetteers?



The Marriott Library is currently discarding or redistributing lots of
decades-old government documents.  Among the candidates for withdrawal a
number of older gazetteers published by the "War Department, Army Map
Service, and later by Defense Mapping Agency. I can't say I've used any of
them for a long while, so I'm amenable to their withdrawal, but I thought
I'd check with colleagues on whether there's still a reason to keep them
around.  Any comments?



---Ken Rockwell

University of Utah

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