Colleagues in map librarianship: Morris Library at Southern Illinois University - Carbondale is undergoing major reorganization and this poses many questions, including some about the relationship of our Map Library to our GIS services. It would help me to get a picture of what is typical at other libraries. Your response to the following questions, directly to me (or to the listserv), would be appreciated not later than 2 pm CDT, Monday, June 3. I will be glad to summarize responses to the list if I hear enough to warrant the sharing. Here is our current situation: The Map Library and GIS are physically separated by four floors and also organizationally separated, with each having separate reporting lines. (There is a whole history behind this.) I have argued for a merged unit to optimize expertise, collection development, and patron services for all spatial data resources, both print and electronic. The current reorganization plan (still under consideration), however, retains the status quo, i.e., separation. The questions: (1) Do you offer GIS services at your library and, if so, is this within the same unit as the map library, or in a different, separate unit? (2) Are your GIS services provided by a librarian or by a non-librarian? If by a librarian, is this the same person as the map librarian or a different person? If GIS services are provided by a non-librarian, to whom does that person report? (3) What name is given to the "map library" and/or GIS unit? ("Map Library" or something else?) (4) Please offer any comments or advice you have about merged vs. separate map and GIS library collections and services Thanks so much. Harry Davis Harry O. Davis <> Phone: 618-453-2705 Map and Assistant Science Librarian <> FAX: 618-453-2704 Morris Library / MS 6632 Southern Illinois University <> Internet: [log in to unmask] Carbondale, Illinois 62901