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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:33:55 -0400
From: Patrick McGlamery <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: RE: deaccessioning of national topographic map collections
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At UConn we also retain all copies of all Topos.

Additionally we are trying to get as many versions as we can online.
<http://mapserver.lib.uconn.edu/magic/>

HJ makes an interesting comment, "Repeatedly we have found patrons using the
Digital Raster Graphic CD's  will
return to the Library to view a paper copy.  This group includes the novice
to the experts in GIS.  Sometimes it is a simple thing like wanting to see a
group of quadrangles all at once.  Other times students such as landscape
architect majors are looking for project sites in an unknown region and want
to view various areas before obtaining the DRG."

I wholeheartedly agreed.  Last year we began to encapsulate one copy of each
variant, veg & non-veg for all of our Connecticut holdings.  I was just
finding that the general availability of topos on the Web was generating
more use of the paper maps... and they were beginning to show it.  I like to
say that those historical topos and air photos are our state's and nation's
baby pictures.  We don't want to throw them away.

Patrick McGlamery

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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:20:06 -0400
From: ahudson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: deaccessioning of national topographic map collections
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Over and over I see map libraries getting rid of their non-regional topos
and sending them off to other libraries around the US.

What is happening here? Is this a result of topos being available on the
web and cds? Is it a space issue? Budget issue?

Are there libraries that are committed to retaining as complete collections
as possible [all 50 states, including back issues] for research use?  Seems
to me the map library community should be aware of locations of
retrospective USGS topos, outside of the National Archives. So far NYPL has
been able to retain ours, despite moving non-northeast historical sheets to
remote storage. Budget cuts or space issues some day may require more
drastic moves, but so far...

Which libraries around the country are retaining their entire USGS
collections? topos that is...Just curious!

Alice C. Hudson
Chief, Map Division
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
The New York Public Library
5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117
New York, NY 10018-2788

[log in to unmask]; 212-930-0589; fax 212-930-0027

http://nypl.org/research/chss/map/map.html


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