================================================ MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ================================================ 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 Email : [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope, AGSL Sent: Wednesday, 12 October 2005 4:10 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: MAPS-L: Maps in Current Newspapers ================================================ MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ================================================ Subject: Maps in Current Newspapers Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 From: Bob Kibbee <[log in to unmask]> To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]> 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 --