-------- Original Message -------- Subject: FW: Oliver Concise Guide - web or paper Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 13:21:57 +0100 From: Francis Herbert <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Knowing that there are 'historic' Ordnance Survey maps (and their associated materials) in North America and Australasia is the reason I forward this [British Isles-based] 'Lis-maps' posting. Please note, at the end, Dr Oliver's request to respond to him 'off-list'. Francis Herbert (founder member, Charles Close Society for the Study of Ordnance Survey Maps) [www.charlesclosesociety.org] [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: A forum for issues related to map & spatial data librarianship [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Oliver, Richard Sent: 09 October 2012 12:52 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Oliver Concise Guide - web or paper The usual apologies for cross-posting, and for repeating what I said at the CCS AGM: The stocks of the 2nd (2005) edition of my 'Ordnance Survey maps: a concise guide for historians' are running down, and I am giving thought to whether the replacement is to be a conventional hard-copy book, or only available via the CCS website. Whichever version was decided on, there would be modest addition and updating of material, particularly the bibliography. I would be extremely glad to hear from users and potential users, (a) whether they would be likely to find a web or a hard-copy version more convenient, and (b) if it was only available in one form or the other, whether they would feel seriously disadvantaged. To inform a decision: at present printers' prices a hard-copy third edition, printed-paper-case as for the 2nd edition, might be expected to sell for about £20. A web version would be 'free at point of use', but would probably cost several poiunds in paper and (particularly) ink to print out. A web version would presumably enable some sort of word-search facility, but it would of necessity involve internet access and the associated hardware. Could any replies be off-list, please? - To [log in to unmask] Thank you, Richard Oliver