----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Greetings, My sharp eyed student assistant, Drew noticed that on several recent USGS depository shipments of 7.5 min. topos that several states appear to be going thru some sort of quadrangle name change phase. For example on shipping list no. 94-19-TQ, all 27 sheets of Kansas have changed sheet name. A tiny note telling you the former sheet name is located on the bottom right corner of the map. This isn't a major problem, but it may present opportunities of confusion if you are not using the up-to-date-folded-up-new-fangled-green-booklet-index-which-ain't-really a-booklet. If you use the old stapled green booklets or the one sheet state indexes (brown on white background single sheets), then you will be possibly given a out of date sheet name. So, if you are like our map collection and keeping only the latest edition of the quads, you might want to remind your staff to take note of incoming quads with notes of title change, and go back and withdraw those older maps. More importantly, if you aren't sure that the quad your patron is asking for has changed names recently, you might want to check both "new-fangled" and older "stapled green booklets". I wonder which states are going thru this name change phase besides Kansas? For the record, you may want to make a note on your Hawaii 7.5 min indexes that the following quads have changed names on the most recent (1981-83) editions: Island of Molokai: Ilio Point, Molokai Airport, Kaunakakai, Kamalo and Halawa sheets have been combined to form oversize 11x18min sheets, now renamed Molokai East and Molokai West. Island of Hawaii: Pololu Valley now renamed Honokane. Just another thing to make your life more interesting, sorry for the message being so long, Aloha, Ross Togashi University of Hawaii at Manoa Hamilton Library Map Collection mmmm...John, your suggestion of walking backwards only made me more dizzy.