--- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 09:58:05 -0700 From: Mary Larsgaard <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Sample scan of old AMS-series index - is this useful to you? Sender: Mary Larsgaard <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Cc: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] Reply-To: Mary Larsgaard <[log in to unmask]> Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Over the years, one type of query that keeps popping up is requests for copies of the old AMS map-series index. A few months back Paige Andrew (Penn) and I were talking about this and I offered to have us here scan a sample. Just to try it out, the scanning staff here scanned one such index (both sides), at 200dpi. http://www.sdc.ucsb.edu/~mary/hokkaido_front.jpg http://www.sdc.ucsb.edu/~mary/hokkaido_back.jpg a. Would it be useful to you/your library's users to have all the old AMS indexes scanned and available over the Web? Please tell me specifically how your users or you as a map librarian would use these. (I have a couple of obvious ideas on this - e.g., fill in missing indexes; users can check over web to see what sheet numbers are, etc..... - but am sure you will come up with others). b. Are the files too large? should they be scanned at, say, 150 or 100dpi, or sampled down? ______________________________________ Mary Lynette Larsgaard Assistant Head, Map and Imagery Laboratory Davidson Library University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 telephone: 805/893-4049 fax: 805/893-8799 email: [log in to unmask] ______________________________________ --- End Forwarded Message ---