-------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: Natural scale rulers Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:24:33 -0500 From: Linda K Ginn <[log in to unmask]> To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]> Here is what I did, and it all seemed to work except for copying to clipboard. http://docushare.lib.rochester.edu/docushare/dsweb/View/Collection-2556 Click on the CalcScale macro link -- the title -- (4th in the list that displayed to me) to open the macro text in a browser window. Copy the whole text of the macro. Go to Connexion and click on Tools/Macros/Manage/New Book. (I named the new macro book MapScaleCalc). Within the macro book, create a new macro named CalcScale (the title Nickeson gave it, first line of macro text). Paste the copied text into the macro and save it. Assign a key to it in your keymap. To try it I opened an empty map record (as if I were creating a new one). I put my cursor in 034 (not sure if this is necessary) and pressed the hot key I'd assigned. The dialog box came up and I made up some numbers. I put in .5 for inches and 1000 for miles, clicked ok and got results: 1:126,720,000. Linda K. Ginn Assistant Professor & Catalog Librarian Head, General Collections Unit The University of Southern Mississippi 118 College Dr #5053 Hattiesburg MS 39406-0001 601.266.6398 [log in to unmask] http://librarianms.wordpress.com/ "Show up. Tell the truth. Pay attention. Do your best. Don't be too attached to the outcome." (Susan Buffett) -----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: Monday, March 12, 2012 3:06 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Natural scale rulers -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Natural scale rulers Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:49:12 -0400 From: Stone, Howard <[log in to unmask]> To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]> The Docushare website says that there's a dialog box, but I can't figure out how to get to it. Can someone give me a hand? Thanks, Howard Stone Map Cataloger, Brown University. On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: RE: Natural scale rulers > Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:06:05 +0000 > From: Bob Thomas <[log in to unmask]> > To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]> > > ------------------ > Allison, > > If you use OCLC's Connexion client software for cataloging, Walter > Nickeson has written the CalcScale macro that replaces the scale rulers. > Our map catalogers use this (and love it). Just give it the measurement > of the scale in inches or centimeters, and the length of the scale in > miles, yards, feet, meters or kilometers, and it converts the > information into a representative fraction. The CalcScale macro is > available at: > http://docushare.lib.rochester.edu/docushare/dsweb/View/Collection-2556 > > Bob Thomas > Integrated Systems Librarian & Head of Cataloging > Western Washington University Libraries > Bellingham, WA > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Natural scale rulers > Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:55:00 -0400 > From: Allison Rich <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: [log in to unmask] > Organization: John Carter Brown Library > To: [log in to unmask] > > > > Hi All; > > We have started to properly catalogue our maps and we are having a very > difficult time getting natural scale indicator rulers. > > On the Western Association of Map Libraries website, it lists: > > *Map Scale Indicator Sources* - Clear plastic map scale indicators: > Available for $18.00 (US or Canadian) from Dr. Cliff Wood, Professor > (Retired), Memorial University, P.O. Box 225, Ilderton, Ontario, Canada, > N0M 2A0. > > We have tried contacting him but there is no answer. > Do we have an old address? > > Is there some alternative source for the rulers? > We would be looking for 3 of them. > > Thanks for you help, > ~Allison > > -- > > ******************************** > "Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend, > and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx" > > Allison Rich > Rare Books Cataloguer > John Carter Brown Library > Providence, Rhode Island > [log in to unmask] > > ********************************