----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I'm not a map librarian; I'm a GIS specialist. As a participant in the Federal Geographic Data Committee, all that I have seen about with the National Spatial Data Infrastructure has been digital products--nothing paper. I'm left thinking that traditional libraries and map librarians are already marginalized. Tools like EPA's GRIDS (an IBM mainframe depository of geographic data) and USGS-WRD's Distributed Spatial Data Library (an ARC/INFO and WAIS data distribution system--this is still being developed), to name a few, are the first steps toward the NSDI--and they, to my knowledge, have been developed with the assistance of any sort of librarian, map or otherwise. The price tag for the NSDI is oriented toward the elimination of paper products in favor of digital databases and communication. Alan Brenner