>Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 14:22:57 +0000 (/etc/localtime)
>From: Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Cdn. Depositories for USGS Topographic Maps <fwd>
>Sender: Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]>
If I might be able to put my own oar in this discussion. On its face, $75
per year for 'depository' items from a national mapping agency sounds like
a good deal. As someone not currently participating, that sounds pretty
good; it makes me consider my institution participating in it. However,
if the comments comparing map production with distribution in the service
are true, those few maps that one receives are pretty expensive at $75 per
annum, especially when most of them are indexes or catalogs of available
material! $75 each year for indexes, and an occasional thematic map on a
parliamentary election, C'est tres ch`ere, n'est-ce pas?
My other comment is that in the meantime, while these issues are being
discussed, I would like to obtain (free if possible, or a web site)
information about current maps, their scales and prices. I may need to
purchase some 1:250,000 maps.
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> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 09:20:01 -0500
> From: "David A. Cobb" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Cdn. Depositories for USGS Topographic Maps
> Sender: "David A. Cobb" <[log in to unmask]>
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>
> Colleagues -
>
> While I certainly agree with Tim's statement below I believe that most of
> these decisions have been made or are being made based on tangible and
> limited financial resources. One of the questions that has not been
> addressed is how many U.S. institutions were receiving Canadian maps.
>
> Secondly, and perhaps most importantly, are the intangible benefits that
> these maps bring back to the depositing government/country. I have been
> involved with Canadian depositories from the beginning of my "map career"
> when I was at the University of Vermont long ago. The University had, and
> continues to support, a distinguished Canadian Studies Program which made
> significant use of the Canadian maps in the Library. Similarly, our
> Canadian collection here at Harvard receives continual use for serious
> research (currently ecological and geological) as well as recreational
> research for canoe and hunting trips.
>
> Having these maps in a university collection allows research and travel to
> occur that, in all likelihood, would not happen if these cartographic
> resources were not available for initial research questioning and for
> further research endeavors involving research grants and publishing that
> can only benefit Canada in the future. Short range tangible decisions often
> have negative long range implications that are not foreseen. I suspect that
> we are involved here with "much ado about nothing" and, with some
> forethought, it will become apparent that cutting off U.S. institutions
> from the Canadian map depository program results in very little savings but
> will result in a decreasing interest among U.S. researchers and
> recreationists. It seems to be an unfortunate lose/lose situation.
>
> David Cobb
> At 01:55 PM 3/10/99 -0800, Tim Ross wrote:
> >
> >Charles:
> >
> >I was the compiler of the Directory of Canadian Map Collections, 6th ed.,
> >1992.
> >
> >Of the 21 institutions receiving USGS maps on deposit, 7 had "full"
> >status, meaning that they received all areas, all scales.
> >
> >Since the Americans are generous enough to donate these maps to Canadian
> >institutions, without fees of any kind (although Canada Post has attempted
> >to assess duty on some of our shipments in the past), it would be
> >neighbourly of NRCan to at least supply Canadian 1:50,000 sheets to those
> >US libraries which pay the prescribed subscription fee.
> >
> >
> > - Tim
> >
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> >Tim Ross, Map Librarian
> >University of British Columbia Library
> >1956 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
> >Tel: (604) 822-6191 Fax: (604) 822-5366
> >Electronic mail: [log in to unmask]
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Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]>
Documents Dept.
Miami University Libraries
Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA
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