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Subject:        Fw: map of barbuda (fwd)
Date:   Wed, 1 Feb 2006 14:45:23 -0800
From:   Matthew Parsons <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>


I'm hoping someone on Maps-L will be able to assist us with this patron
question (appended below).

Thanks!

Matthew Parsons, Map Librarian
Map Collection & Cartographic Information Services
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900, Seattle, WA 98195
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206-543-9392
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> Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:50:35 -0800 (PST)
> From: Gregg Wilson <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Map Library <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: map of barbuda
>
> Chris
>
> Thanks for your help, yes I would like you to pass
> this on.  Unfortunately I can't add much more to the
> reference description.  I suspect, but can't prove,
> that this was in a series for the Lesser Antilles, or
> maybe the West Indies as a group - although I don't
> see a similar map for Antigua in my bibliography.
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> Map Librarians,
>
> I'm looking for:
>
> "Barbuda"
>
> Washington, DC: U.S. Army Map Service, 1958. Scale
> 1:25,000.
>
> It is a two-sheet colored transverse Mercator
> projection showing spot heights and contours at 5- and
> 10- foot intervals.  Each sheet measures 55x86cm.  The
> map was compiled from photogrammetric data, especially
> air photography, rather than a ground survey.
>
> This is for a MSc thesis focused on the island.
>
> Any assistance would be appreciated,
>
> Gregg Wilson
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> --- Map Library <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Hello, Gregg Wilson--
>> Our Saturday staffer in the Map Collection relayed
>> this question:
>>
>> You are looking for a US Army Map Service map of
>> Barbuda from 1958, scale
>> 1:25,000.  5 and 10 ft contour interval.
>>
>> We do not have this map.  Asking us is a good idea,
>> as
>> we have a significant number maps which have not
>> been cataloged,
>> especially in areas outside Washington and the
>> Pacific Northwest.  For
>> example, we have an AMS map of Antigua from the
>> 1940s at a scale of
>> 1:50,000--not cataloged, so searching our online
>> catalog would not bring
>> it up.
>>
>> I also searched OCLC World Cat, a database used
>> internationally by
>> libraries to catalog their materials.  We often find
>> that someone,
>> somewhere has cataloged an AMS map.  No luck.
>>
>> My next thought is that I could ask my librarians to
>> post this question on
>> a list monitored by map librarians.  If  you would
>> like that, then compose
>> a little paragraph about the map (including above
>> info, and anthing else
>> you know) and I will forward it on. One pertinent
>> piece of information, if
>> you know: is this map part of a larger set of AMS
>> maps? If it is part of a
>> larger set, what is the name of it?  (For example,
>> the map of Antigua I
>> mention above was part of a set called "Lesser
>> Antilles, 1:50,000", AMS
>> series # E741)
>>
>> Chris Blomquist
>> Library Technician
>> Map Collection
>> University of Washington Libraries
>> 206.543.9392
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>>