-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Historic atlases now online Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:39:02 -0700 From: Matt Fox <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] References: <[log in to unmask]> Just wanted to say thanks for such a great resource. I wish more digital map libraries followed your lead with regards to making your maps freely available to the public. Most digital map libraries provide access to their maps via a browser plugin ONLY, and many try to impose licensing restrictions that I don't even think are legal (can a library copyright a public domain map simply by scanning it??) I also can't think of one other digital map library that makes the original full resolution TIFF scan available for download. Well done... Matt Fox On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Maps-L Moderator <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Historic atlases now online Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:59:21 -0700 From: Linda P Newman <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> To: <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>, <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Folks, we are very pleased to announce the addition of 2 significant works to our Historic Nevada geologic and mining maps collection on line: http://www.delamare.unr.edu/Maps/digitalcollections/nvmaps/histgeo.html */Geological History of Lake Lahontan/*/, a Quaternary lake of northwestern Nevada/. 1885, Israel Cook Russell. USGS Monograph XI . The famous plate from this volume has been on our site for some time; we now offer the full volume . Also added just yesterday to the same site [link above] is the complete *Atlas* accompanying the /US Geological Exploration Survey of the Fortieth Parallel,/ 1876. Clarence King. And Plate XIV *Geological map of the Steamboat Springs District*. /In /Atlas to accompany a monograph on the geology of the Quicksilver deposits of the Pacific slope. George F. Becker. US Geological Survey Monograph XIII, Washington, 1887. Linda Newman, Geoscience & Map Librarian Glee Willis, Digital Projects Vicki Toy-Smith, Metadata Librarian Araby Greene, Library Web Master