----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Duane F. Marble wrote: > > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > This whole topic is related to the efforts of the Association of > Research Libraries and ESRI to place GIS in a variety of library > situations. There is a nice video on GIS in the library (featuring > both the Montana State Library and the St. Louis Public Library) > that may be obtained without charge from your ESRI regional office. Related Duane, but actually, I think the topic relates more specifically to libraries continued efforts to collect, describe and provide access to spatial information for its' user community and attempting to manage the change of that information from a paper format to a digital one. ARL's and ESRI's efforts have enabled many of us to 'get at' the spatial information and some of us to develop strategies for providing complex public and technical services to the information, regardless of its format. I happen to think that the efforts have been too closely confined to the reference function and could benefit from a open discussion. Patrick McGlamery Map Librarian Homer Babbidge Library, MAGIC http://magic.lib.uconn.edu/