-------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: Natural scale rulers Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:22:35 -0500 From: Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee <[log in to unmask]> Organization: American Geographical Society Library To: Maps-L <[log in to unmask]> I have an older version of Connexion and so the instructions didn't work exactly the same, but I did get it to work. Angie -------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: Natural scale rulers Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:11:03 -0700 From: Ratliff, Louise <[log in to unmask]> To: 'Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship' <[log in to unmask]> To bring in the two macrobooks: Macro book Essentials and Macro book Extras, click on each of their names (about halfway down the list of macros) and download each one. Then copy them into your Connexion program folder. (Ours are here: C:\Program Files\OCLC\Connexion\Program\Macros ). To select a macro to run from Connexion, select Tools--Macros--Manage, and open the folder you want. Select the desired macro and click on Run. You can also map the macro to a hot key. Cheers, Louise Louise Ratliff Social Sciences and Map Catalog Librarian UCLA Cataloging & Metadata Center -----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 1:34 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Natural scale rulers -------- 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] > > ********************************