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The point Charley, is not electronic or paper, but the existence of a
Depository Library Program.  I agree that the issue has become muddied
with the question of electronic informtion.  In fact, the issue is that
at the end of October a lot of Document Libr'ns are going to make some
recommendations about the Depository Library Program.  Do the Map Librarians
want to comment, or do we feel comfortable allowing our collegues making
recommendations for us?  Whatever we might feel about electronic mapping
will matter little if we are not receiving the material through the depository
program... IN THE MAP LIBRARY OR ANYWHERE IN THE LIBRARY.  I think our
government is not above trying to do what every other (?) nation does
and make libraries pay for information.
 
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  PATRICK MCGLAMERY
  MAP LIBRARIAN U-5M
  HOMER BABBIDGE LIBRARY
  UNIV. OF CONNECTICUT
  STORRS, CT 06268
  (203) 486-4589
  LIBMAP1@UCONNVM
 
 
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In all this great rush to climb on the electronic bandwagon, let us
remember that there are any number of depository libraries who simply
are not up to coping with the internet, let alone all the other stuff
that is going on.  It is very important that we move into an electronc
age, but do not assume that the electronic junkies reading this are
the depository universe.  We cannot abandon the great majority of the
1400 depositories simply because the top several (?) hundred see the
approach of the electronic millenium.
 
charley seave
aka DOCMAPS