Susan,


I think the route you are inclined to pursue sounds like the right one based on your descriptions of things.


Paige

From: Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Susan Moore <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, August 1, 2019 2:21 PM
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Subject: Re: Is USGS Open File Report 97-52 a map or not?
 
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 

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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