Guide to U.S. Map Resources: Map and Geography Round Table Magert of the American Library Association - Softcover

...a fine job of providing directory information that is still useful in the twenty-first century. Recommended for medium-sized to large public and academic libraries. * Booklist, 4/1/2006 * ...the best way to discover the principle map collections in a particular area, and is therefore recommended for all academic, larger public, and genealogy libraries. * American Reference Books Annual * This admittedly overdue update of the 1990 and 1986 editions reflects map collections transformed by such technologies as geographical information systems, data sets, and digitalization. From a 2003-4 survey conducted by Thiry (map librarian, Colorado School of Mines, Golden) from his library's map room's website, he has compiled a directory of collections at academic, federal, public, private, state, and other institutions. Entries, referenced to accession numbers in the indices, are organized alphabetically by state and include information on contacts, holdings, access, GIS and other services. Web resources are included. Indexed by library/ institution, name, geographic/subject/special collection, regional Federal depository library, and collection receiving items through the Federal Depository Library Program. * Reference and Research Book News *

More than fourteen years have passed since the second edition of the Map and Geography Round Table's Guide to U.S. Map Resources appeared in 1990. The third edition offers users a detailed snapshot of and guide to hundreds of map collections and cartographic resources in libraries and repositories throughout the nation. Geographic information systems (GIS), the World Wide Web, email, Portable Document Format, data sets, the Internet and digitization have all played revolutionary roles in transforming libraries-and map collections in particular-over the past fifteen years. Today's librarian who works with maps is no longer limited by the contents of his or her own collection. In many cases the librarian can turn to the Internet and locate a map or data set physically located in a library hundreds of miles away.