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
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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 

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 

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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