-------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: LibGuides and map libraries Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 08:01:29 -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]> Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this request. Here is a list of all the responses - only one or two off-list. Feel free to keep conversing about the different role of a libguide in a map/geography library... Angie LIBGUIDES Michigan State University General map links: http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/maplinks GIS Guide: http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/gis Guide to Clason Road Maps and Atlases http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/Clason Using Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/sanborn Early Mapping of Michigan and the Great Lakes, 1744-1862 (an online map exhibit) http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/earlymaps Guide to Detailed Land and Property Information in Michigan: http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/land University of Pittsburgh Here is our topographic maps guide at Pitt: http://pitt.libguides.com/topo And here is a more general (still "unpublished") guide to our map collection that I'm still working on: http://pitt.libguides.com/hillman_maps U of Saskatchewan http://libguides.usask.ca/content.php?pid=111791&sid=841825 University at Buffalo Map Collection has a website with many guides. http://library.buffalo.edu/maps/ Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) http://libguides.lib.muohio.edu/maps I manage another for Geographic Information Science http://libguides.lib.muohio.edu/content.php?pid=54782 University of Utah's Marriott Library: http://campusguides.lib.utah.edu/content.php?pid=96645&search_terms=Maps University of Regina http://libguides.com/community.php?m=i&ref=www.libguides.com University of Alberta http://guides.library.ualberta.ca/maps Brigham Young University lib.byu.edu. Just click on "Maps & Gazetteers" on the lower right. Once you get the page with my mug shot, you have the options of clicking the various tabs across the top and searching for files and sites topically or geographically. You can also click the "A to Z Resources in Maps" tab and search alphabetically. I've been working on this guide bit by bit every day, so its look may change slightly from one day to the next. The tab with the most is probably Maps Online. You'll notice that some of the lists are Utah, Utah County, BYU, and LDS Church specific. But others are pertinent to all. University of Kentucky http://libguides.uky.edu/maps Western Michigan University http://libguides.wmich.edu/maps UW Milwaukee Milwaukee Neighborhood Maps http://guides.library.uwm.edu/content.php?pid=85854 University of Kansas http://guides.lib.ku.edu/gis -------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: LibGuides and map libraries Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 16:55:39 -0400 From: Grabach, Kenneth A. Mr. <[log in to unmask]> To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]> Angie, thanks for asking this question. Early on in my library's foray into the Springshare LibGuides resource, I decided that a guide devoted to a material format and collection was needed. My colleagues were looking mostly at subjects related to the academic departments here. As a map librarian I recognized a constituency that was not limited to a single department or subject as far as materials classification is concerned. It is reassuring to see that others think the same way. I have not yet had time to take a look at the links to guides that others have shared. But I will be doing so. It would be interesting to get ideas of what works, why things were included, whatever. Maybe even discussion of what you like of others' guides that you might be tempted to try. I am always "under the hood" on mine and my other guides, tinkering around, or adding new items. One of the things I particularly like is to use a Books from the Catalog box to highlight newly received items. That, of course, entails regularly updating the listing, removing older materials and adding new things of potential interest. Again, I look forward to some discussion. Ken Grabach <[log in to unmask]> Maps Librarian Phone: 513-529-1726 Miami University Libraries Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA -----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: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 10:33 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Libguides and map libraries Hello, Does anyone use Libguides to promote their collections and services specific to their map/gis library? Will you share a link to your guide with me? Thanks. Angie