-------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE:Gazeteers - how important? Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:27:36 -0700 From: Diaz, Carlos <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Well, a gazetteer from the Soviet Union would be valuable since the geographic names would have changed due to end of the Cold War. You might want to retain eastern Europe gazetteers, as well as, Africa gazetteers since name changes occur quite a bit in that part of the world. Anywhere, where there has been political instability that affects geographic names would be good to retain for historical purposes. For example: Leningrad (Soviet Union) brought back its old name (St. Petersburg, Russia). Anybody doing research of eastern Europe would want that kind of information including genealogists. Carlos A. Diaz Daniel J. Evans Library The Evergreen State College Olympia, Washington [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 6:28 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Gazeteers - how important? -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Gazeteers - how important? Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:48:49 +0000 From: Robert Lopresti <[log in to unmask]> To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]> We are in the midst of consolidating our map library into the main library. I have approximately 22 shelves of paper gazetteers from around the world. Most but not all our from the US government, and the most recent seem to be from the 1990s. Most are from the 1950s to 1970s. My question is: how useful/important are they today? Should I be saving eight shelves worth of them? Thanks, Rob Rob Lopresti Map Librarian, Liaison for Huxley College and Government Information Librarian Western Washington University 360-650-3342 [log in to unmask]