A couple of years ago we finished going through our entire collection of USGS OFR fiche and cataloging them. We ran across quite a few fiche like this one that referred to digital maps but were nothing more than accompanying material. As far as I could tell the actual map or digital file was usually not distributed. Many times if the map were acknowledged by USGS the fiche would have a letter attached to the report number differentiating the multiple parts, i.e. 97-52 A and 97-52 B. I also found this anomaly with OFR's that were described as floppies that we may or may not have received. Beth . Beth Downing Government Documents Librarian Idaho State University 850 S. 9th Ave. Mail Stop 8089 Pocatello, ID 83209-8089 (208) 282-2940 [log in to unmask] On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 4:15 PM Jon Jablonski <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Carlos is correct that all of the pieces necessary to use this digital > object are at that URL. The .e00 files are the actual datasets at the site. > > I also had quite a chuckle over lunch that the FDLP circulated a fiche of > a readMe for online data. I notice the date is 1997. Do you think maybe > the fiche arrived with a CD-ROM rubber-banded to it? Or were the fiche and > disk on separate shipping lists? > > Jon Jablonski > Director, Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory > Spatial Data Librarian > UCSB Library > 805-893-4049 > > > > > > > On Aug 1, 2019, at 12:32 PM, Carlos A Diaz <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Looks like the link that Susan provided are thr files to make the map in > ArcInfo (GIS software). > > By now, every depository library should have at least one computer > dedicated to GIS and should also have a map plotter since it is the only > way you can update US topographic maps and nautical charts. Having these > two pieces of equipment are a necessity now. > > > Carlos A Diaz > [log in to unmask] > AskCarlos.com > > On Thu, Aug 1, 2019, 2:08 PM Susan Moore <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Hi Louise (and other Mapsters); >> >> What is on the fiche appears to be the readme file from the website ( >> https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1997/ofr-97-0052/). We don't have a record for >> the online map and I don't think it's a dataset. I'm inclined at this point >> to catalog the fiche as a textual item and include a related 856 field to >> the website. >> >> Susan >> >> On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 7:20 PM LOUISE M RATLIFF <[log in to unmask]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Susan, >>> Could you consider this fiche to be accompanying material? How do >>> you access the map itself? Is it a downloadable dataset? >>> Louise Ratliff >>> >>> Sent from Louise's iPhone >>> >>> On Jul 31, 2019, at 1:27 PM, Susan Moore <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> >>> Fellow map people: >>> >>> We got I 19.76:97-52 The Digital geologic map of New Mexico in ARC/INFO >>> format on microfiche through the Federal Depository Program. There is a >>> record in OCLC (#50054160) for the microfiche that gives the details of a >>> map. When I look at the fiche, there's text including the coding scheme for >>> the polygon attributes but there's no map on the fiche itself. Would you >>> consider this a map or just text? >>> >>> We've had discussions on cataloging cartographic data sets at the past >>> two ALAs but I don't think this meets the definition. >>> >>> Thanks for any advice. >>> >>> Susan Moore >>> University of Northern Iowa >>> Cedar Falls, IA 50614 >>> [log in to unmask] >>> >>> >