From: Nancy Kandoian [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 12:58 PM To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship Subject: Re: Usefulness of old gazetteers? Browsability can be a big loss especially if you are looking for foreign place names and you don't know exactly how to spell the name you're looking for. That's why I like having continued access to the paper gazetteers. I'd vote to keep them. Nancy Kandoian Map Cataloger NYPL Map Division On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Angie Cope <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > wrote: From: Bertuca, David [mailto:[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ] Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 12:14 PM To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship Subject: RE: Usefulness of old gazetteers? If these are the AMS/DMA/…. gazetteers that later went into the GNIS database online, then you may find no benefit to keeping the paper. There is enough historic data in the GNIS for older/former names. I kept our old state topo gazetteers for a long time and finally determined that the only real loss was browsability of feature names. But this wasn’t a concern of users and the paper version was not used at all after online was available. I DID keep the New York State gazetteer just in case, but that was it. We had some GNIS data on fiche and may still, but I have not had to consult that in years and the online version is superior. David J. Bertuca, Map Librarian Science and Engineering Information Center 225 Capen Hall Oscar A. Silverman Library University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260-1672 716-645-1332 <tel:716-645-1332> / 716-645-3710 <tel:716-645-3710> (fax) [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Liaison to the Geography Department for GIS and Physical Geography From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 12:44 PM To: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: Usefulness of old gazetteers? 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