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] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > AskCarlos.com > > On Thu, Aug 1, 2019, 2:08 PM Susan Moore <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[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/ <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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>