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Subject: RE: MAPS-L: Maps in Current Newspapers
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005
From: Maura O'Connor <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Dear Angie
At the NLA, I will occasionally clip a map/satellite image from a local
newspaper if we can't source the information elsewhere. Recently
low-level and detailed satellite images of Canberra's suburbs were
featured each day fot several months and one of my staff assiduously
collected them and they have now been catalogued!
However, we also have a program here whereby all of our Australian
newspapers are microfilmed and we are currently looking at a national
program to have them digitised and made available (I think) online.
This will also mean an indexing system will need to be developed to
provide access to the contents. That will ensure such material is
"saved" for future generations!
Yours sincerely
Maura O'Connor
Map Curator
National Library of Australia
Canberra ACT 2600
Phone : 61 2 6262 1280
Fax: 61 2 6262 1653
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Subject: Maps in Current Newspapers
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005
From: Bob Kibbee <[log in to unmask]>
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All,
I'm interested in what policies you all have in place for acquiring maps
in
current newspapers. We will usually clip and add maps that have possible
historical or reference value from local newspapers, but I'm wondering
about, e.g. maps from the NYTimes. Do we just assume that the maps
produced
there are being archived somewhere by the NYT itself and will be
available
for researchers, at least subscribing researchers? (Library
subscriptions
through aggregators such as Factiva and Lexis Academic don't include
graphics.) Is there a need / obligation to make them discoverable and
available in a cataloged map collection? Are there legal constraints on
adding the paper clipping, a photocopy of it, a scan of it, a print from
the graphic from the NYTimes site itself?
Take a feature article from October 10th, "As Polar Ice Turns to Water,
Dreams of Treasure Abound," which features three dramatic maps of the
arctic. These maps would seem to be useful to any program working with
arctic regions. Can these maps be added to our collection; should they
be?
This may be a more pressing issue now that journalistic cartography
seems
to be exploding in volume and sophistication.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Bob
Bob Kibbee
Map & GIS Librarian
Instruction, Research & Information Services (IRIS)
017 Olin Library, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853-5301
voice 607-255-9566 / fax 607-255-9346
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