--- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 11:09:59 -0500 From: David Allen <[log in to unmask]> Subject: New York State Map Pathfinder Sender: David Allen <[log in to unmask]> Some you you may want to take a look at my latest production, the "New York State Map Pathfinder." The pathfinder consists of links to approximately 200 digital images of maps of New York State, or of areas within the state. The pathfinder is a lightly edited version of another pathfinder generated semi-automatically from the OCLC CORC database. Although the pathfinder is crude and incomplete, it was also made without much effort on my part. Other librarians may want to consider creating similar pathfinders as a partial solution to the problem of providing item-level access to maps on the Internet. There are quite a few digital maps of New York State that are not yet in the pathfinder (including some from the Library of Congress and my own institution). I plan to add them to the pathfinder and, if necessary, to the CORC database as time permits. If any of you know of additional maps that should be added to the pathfinder--especially if they are not from major digital collections--please let me know about them. The URL for the pathfinder is: <http://www.sunysb.edu/libmap/nypath1.htm>. There is also a link to it from the bottom of my "New York State Historical Maps" site <http://www.sunysb.edu/libmap/nymaps.htm>. --- End Forwarded Message ---