From: Mark Jackson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 12:49 PM
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
Subject: Re: Usefulness of old gazetteers?

You’ll want to double check (meaning I don’t want to be held responsible), but if they reference AMS maps then the contents should be available through the NGA GeoNames online gazetteer (http://geonames.nga.mil/namesgaz/) or the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) (http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/) 

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Dr. Mark Jackson

Research Librarian

Geography ∙ Geology ∙ Civil Engineering ∙ CM ∙ FPM ∙ IT

Brigham Young University

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On May 13, 2014, at 10:43 AM, Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

From: Ken Rockwell [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 10:57 AM
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
Subject: Usefulness of old gazetteers?

The Marriott Library is currently discarding or redistributing lots of decades-old government documents.  Among the candidates for withdrawal a number of older gazetteers published by the “War Department, Army Map Service, and later by Defense Mapping Agency. I can’t say I’ve used any of them for a long while, so I’m amenable to their withdrawal, but I thought I’d check with colleagues on whether there’s still a reason to keep them around.  Any comments?

---Ken Rockwell

University of Utah