Electronic Version - March 2001.

1. News

1.1 1,406 New Maps added to the David Rumsey collection

From Philip Hoehn philhoehn@juno.com

Highlights from 1,406 New Maps added to the David Rumsey Collection, March 1, 2001. All titles may be found by searching under Search/by Publication Author using the author names below. Total maps on the site now number 4,421.

• Monsieur Danville. Atlas General, 1771. 48 maps, including several important maps of the Americas.
  
• Aaron Arrowsmith. South America, 1814. The huge (over 8 feet tall) six sheet wall map originally issued in 1811.
  
• John George Bartholomew. Times Atlas of the World, 1922. 117 maps, the second edition of this influential 20th century atlas and the first edition to use Bartholomew's maps.
  
• Joseph Bouchette. Maps of Upper and Lower Canada, 1815 - 1831. Seven large maps by the Bouchette family, including highly detailed maps of the Montreal and Quebec districts.
  
• David Burr. New Universal Atlas, 1835. 63 maps, first edition.
  
• Osgood Carleton. Map of Massachusetts, 1801. The first official map of the State.
  
• George Cram. New Commercial Atlas Of The United States and Territories, 1875. 35 maps, the rare first edition of Cram's short-lived large format US atlas.
  
• Cruz Cano y Olmedilla. Mapa Geografico de America Meridional, 1799. The London edition, published by William Faden, of this important early map of South America; originally issued in 1775 in Madrid.
  
• A. Fullarton & Co. Royal Illustrated Atlas, 1872. 75 maps, one of the last decorative atlases published in the 19th century.
  
• William Hammond Hall. Los Angeles Basin, 1880. Large unrecorded manuscript topographical map, one of the earliest to show the Los Angeles area in detail.
  
• Eli Hayes. Illustrated Atlas of the Upper Ohio River and Valley, 1877. 141 maps and views from this rare county style atlas showing the cities, towns, businesses, and residences of the Ohio River Valley from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati.
  
• J.B. Homann. Atlas Methodicus, 1719. One of the earliest teaching atlases.
  
• Thomas Kitchin. General Atlas, 1790. 35 large maps constructed from 62 separate sheets.
  
• Herman Moll. Atlas Minor, 1736. 62 maps. Includes 18 maps of the Americas.
  
• John Pinkerton. A Modern Atlas, 1815. 64 maps. The first edition.
  
• Rand McNally. Business Atlas of the United States, 1879. 50 maps, the first atlas of the U.S. by Rand McNally.
  
• Gilles and Didier Robert de Vaugondy. Atlas Universel, 1757. 109 maps, first edition. Includes 25 detailed maps of French Provinces, 7 maps of the Americas, and 5 added postal maps of European countries.
  
• Snyder, Van Vechten & Co. Historical Atlas of Wisconsin, 1878. 142 maps and views. Detailed maps of each county and most cities, plus lithographic views of farms, commercial buildings and prominent citizens.
  
• U.S. General Land Office. Maps Accompanying the Annual Report of the General Land Office, 1866. 23 maps, including maps of all the western states and territories.
  
• Warner & Beers. Atlas of the State of Illinois, 1876. 155 maps and views. County maps, detailed Chicago maps, views.
  
• James Wyld. Map of North America, 1823. Rare, first edition of this important map, noted for its accurate depiction of the Pacific Northwest and its wildly inaccurate showing of the American Southwest.

Posted by Rea Mueller 703-648-5954 FAX: 703-648-5939 e-mail: rlmueller@usgs.gov

1.2.1 Subject: Publications Status Report

The following free information products are now available:

Center for Integration of Natural Disaster Information
• Fact Sheet 003-01, January 2001
  
• Supersedes Fact Sheet 166-98, December 1998
  
• http://mac.usgs.gov/mac/isb/pubs/pubslists/fctsht.html

Science, Society, Solutions: An Introduction to the USGS
• New fact sheet 010-01, January 2001
  
• http://www.usgs.gov/aboutusgs.html

Paper copies of these color fact sheets can be requested from USGS Information Services, Box 25286, Denver, CO 80225 (FAX: 303-202-4693). Please recycle copies of the superseded fact sheet.

1.3 New features added to INSIDE Idaho website

From Lily Wai lwai@uidaho.edu

New features added to INSIDE Idaho Website http://inside.uidaho.edu

• The TIGER95 data are complete. Instead of just being able to download all 29 themes for a county at one time, users can download the themes individually now. We are getting ready for the new Census 2000 data releases and our site will host both the population data and the TIGER data for our state, when they are ready sometime in the spring. This is just a preview of what is to come. Ten libraries in the state will be involved in providing public access to these data and for the Redistricting process that is to take place in the summer months this year.
  
• The Tutorial section is finally done. The detailed step by step tutorial is designed to help users understand how the website is organized, what data are available, and how they can use the data.
  
• Based on the excellent suggestion from a GIS professional we have made the following changes to the metadata section:
  
  • The source image date is now presented when the user selects the Quarter-Quad Info radio button prior to downloading the DOQQs. Additionally, that suggestion was taken a step further. For the - 1:24,000 DRGs in UTM - 1:100,000 DRGs in UTM - 1:250,000 DRGs in UTM - DOQQs in UTM
    
  • Users can now view metadata for the individual files. There is a User Defined Link at the top of each of the series level metadata for user to access the individual file level metadata.
    
• Some people were having difficulty using the map interface (downloading 7.5-minute DRGs and 3.75-minute DOQQs). A help link has been added to explain the process.

1.4 The Sharlot Hall Museum Archives creates online graphical database

From Michael Wurtz, Archivist wurtz@sharlot.org

The Sharlot Hall Museum Archives in Prescott, Arizona has created, a unique interface for looking at their historic map collection. It is a graphical database where researchers who visit the web site can click the location they are interested in on an index map. That click will bring up a list of historic maps in the collection that cover that particular point.

The Sharlot Hall Museum Archives is hoping that archivists, map librarians, and historians could visit the site: http://www.sharlot.org/archives and click on Graphical Database to check out how this works. The museum is interested in obtaining any feedback that users have and also if you know of other graphical searches that exist for historical maps. The Sharlot Hall Museum Archives has over 4000 maps in their collection. However, only MARC records for about 200 of these have been created so far (all of which can be accessed through the graphical database) and only about 30 of those have an image linked to them.

1.5 Articles from the Proceedings of the European Mapcurator Group 2000 now online

From Jan Smits Jan.Smits@kb.nl

The following articles, which are the Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Mapcurator's Group 2000, have been added to the GdC-websites:
Full-text articles (in alphabetical order of author) http://www.kb.nl/infolev/liber/intro.htm#art
BIBLIOGRAPHY (arranged by subject) http://www.kb.nl/infolev/liber/overview.htm#subject
The articles are recognizable from the NEW image.

• Bauer, Theo and Jürg Bühler, Wolfgang Crom (2000): Map 'webucation': using the World Wide Web for the continuing education of map librarians
  
• Bühler, Jürg (2000): Map collections and the Internet: some ideas about various online map services, based on the ETH map collection in Zürich
  
• Campbell, Tony (2000): Where are map libraries heading? Some route maps for the digital future
  
• Fleet, Chris (2000): Distributing images and information over the Web - a case study of the Pont manuscript maps
  
• Kotelnikova, N., and L. Kildushevskaja (2000): Electronic maps and atlases in the Russian State Library and the Russian National Library
  
• Morris, Barbara and David Medyckyj-Scott and Peter Burnhill (2000): EDINA Digimap: New developments in the Internet mapping and data service for the UK Higher Education community
  
• Oddens, Roelof (2000): Four years of Oddens' Bookmarks: The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping
  
• Smits, Jan (2000): Can a map be a geographic information retrieval tool?
  
• Stevenson, Bill (2000): Servicing Map Users at Aalborg University Library

1.6 Doctorates relating to the history of cartography

From: Tony Cambell

Doctorates relating to the history of cartography (awarded from 1995 onwards) . This site represents an amalgamation of annual listings appearing in the Personal News section of the Chronicle in Imago Mundi since vol. 50 (1998). Some of the information was obtained from ProQuest Digital Dissertations, which gives access to UMI's Dissertation Abstracts database (apparently restricted to US and Canada). Another site which offers the possibility of searching across a number of sites simultaneously is the ETD Digital Library: the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD).For more information see: http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/maps/phd.html

1.7 FGDC releases three standards for public review

From Julie Binder Maitra jmaitra@usgs.gov

The Federal Geodetic Data Committee (FGDC) is conducting a public review of three standards:

• The Address Data Content Standard (comments due June 22, 2001)
  
• The NSDI Framework Transportation Identification Standard (comments due July 20, 2001)
  
• The Standard for a U.S. National Grid (comments due June 22, 2001)

The FGDC invites GIS data producers and users and software vendors to comment on the standards to ensure that the standards meet the needs of their communities. To learn about the standards and how to submit comments on the standards, visit the FGDC What's New web page at: http://www.fgdc.gov/whatsnew/whatsnew.html . Reviewers are strongly encouraged to use the template for sending comments that may be downloaded from: http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/directives/dir2d.html.

Public review comments that address specific issues/changes/additions may result in revisions that enhance the usefulness of the standards for their communities. After comments have been evaluated, reviewers will receive notification of how their comments were addressed. After formal endorsement of the standard by the FGDC, the standard and a summary analysis of the changes will be made available to the public via the FGDC Web site.

1.8 MAGERT now an associate sponsor of GIS Day

From Chris Kollen kollenc@u.library.arizona.edu

The Map and Geography Round Table (MAGERT) of the American Library Association announced that it is now an Associate Sponsor of GIS Day.
GIS or geographic information systems represents computer software, data and solutions that are used by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide in government, education and business. GIS Day is a grassroots event that formalizes the practice of geographic information system (GIS) users and vendors opening their doors to schools, businesses, and the general public to showcase real-world applications of this important technology. The goal is to help educate children as well as adults on the applications of geography and computer- aided mapping. The second year of this event saw thousands of events in 81 countries. The principal sponsors of GIS Day include:

• National Geographic Society
  
• Association of American Geographers
  
• University Consortium for Geographic Information Science
  
• U.S. Geological Survey
  
• Library of Congress
  
• Environmental Systems Research Institute.

MAGERT, the world's largest map library organization, has been involved in GIS for the past several years. The Geographic Technologies Committee of MAGERT has sponsored a program at the annual American Library Association conference for the past several years on GIS which has included:

• Acquisition of Electronic Geospatial Data (2000)
  
• Partnering: Collaboration Between Libraries and Significant Others to Promote Complex GIS Projects (1999)
  
• Building the National Spatial Data Infrastructure Metadata Catalog: The Librarian's Role (1998)
  
• Geographic Information Systems: A New Service Opportunity for Libraries (1994)

1.9 Alice Hudson winner of 2001 Sloan Public Service Award

Alice Hudson, of the New York Public Library's Map Division was recently honored with a prestigious award. The Fund for the City of New York named Alice a winner of the 2001 Sloan Public Service Awards. The awards program recognizes outstanding civil servants whose work performance and commitment to the public transcend not merely the ordinary but the extraordinary -- day after day and year after year. On March 14, representatives of the Fund visited the New York Public Library to present Alice with her award, as they visited the workplaces of the seven other recipients. Then in the evening, all honorees, officials, friends, relatives and co-workers gathered at the Great Hall of Cooper Union where each of the eight was introduced. The Fund cited Alice for being tirelessly dedicated to encouraging the public to use the collection which she has developed and promoted [as] the largest public library map collection in the United States.

1.10 Kathryn Womble leaves position

Kathryn Womble has left her position as Head of the Map Collection at the University of Washington. Her last day was March 30th. On April 1st Jenny Stone Muilenburg, the GIS Librarian, was appointed Acting Head of the Map Collection.

1.11 History, Social Sciences Team, Catalog Department, Yale University Library

History, Social Sciences Team, Catalog Department, Yale University Library. Rank: Librarian I fixed duration until 6/30/2006

Responsibilities: Under the general direction of the History and Social Sciences Cataloging Team Leader, provides original cataloging for a wide range of historical maps largely relating to North America. Some of the work will involve creating high-quality retrospective conversion records using the card records currently in the Library's Map Collection.

Descriptive cataloging is performed in accordance with national standards and the requirements of Yale's local online NOTIS-based system. Catalog Librarians keep abreast of revisions in cataloging rules and trends and apply new rules, interpretations, and techniques as appropriate. Subject analysis and classification assignment follow Library of Congress standards and local practice. Authority records follow NACO standards. Catalog Librarians may train and revise the work of students, cataloging assistants, and other librarians. Catalog Librarians participate actively in the Library's management, assessment, training, and development programs; contribute to implementing the mission of the Library, and are active professionally.

Qualifications MLS from an ALA-accredited library science program. Strong reading knowledge of one or more western European languages. Strong communication and analytical skills. Ability to work independently and with others. Ability to excel in a rapidly changing automated team environment. Familiarity with AACR2, Library of Congress Rule Interpretations and subject heading practice, the Library of Congress Map Cataloging Manual, and MARC formats for maps and books. Strong computer skills, including experience with personal computer hardware and software, bibliographic services such as RLIN and OCLC, and networked-based tools.
Preferred: experience cataloging cartographic materials, academic study in history or a social sciences field.

Salary and Benefits Competitive salary based upon the successful candidate's qualifications and experience. Full benefits package including 22 vacation days; 18 holiday, recess and personal days; comprehensive health care; TIAA/CREF or Yale retirement plan; and relocation assistance.

Application deadline is April 16, 2001; applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Applications consisting of a cover letter, resume, and the names of three references should be directed to:

• Diane Y. Turner, Director
  
• Human Resources; Yale University Library; Source Code EAYU8593
  
• P.O. Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520
  
• fax (203) 432-1806

1.12 Digital Cartography Specialist Harvard Map Collection

Digital Cartography Specialist School / Unit Harvard College Library Department Harvard Map Collection (Full Or Part Time Full-Time Salary Grade 56)

Duties And Responsibilities:
Reporting to Head of the Harvard Map Collection, is responsible for providing a wide variety of student and faculty access to digital cartography services of the Harvard Map Collection. Assesses patron's mapping needs, chooses appropriate software and data; provides reference assistance to the cartographic CD-ROM and web links collections; assists in production of basic thematic maps in the GIS environment or the desktop publishing environment, applies appropriate cartographic design to complex GIS projects, assists patrons to scan historical maps, gathers/ archives geospatial data for collection; maintains Harvard Map Collection website, recommends acquisition of cartographic software and data; installs new CD-ROMs on the public computer cluster; manages student reservation for time and space; provides reference assistance within Map Collection.

Required:
Education BA in geography, graphic design, computer science or related discipline required; experience in digital cartographic design and scanning software preferred; basic skills in Arc View, MapInfo, Maptitude, or other PC based GIS software required; must have excellent public service attitude and desire to work with a diverse clientele; experience working in a Windows NT environment, with Microsoft Office suite of products and software installation, and printer/plotter maintenance preferred; excellent oral, written, and graphic communication skills with experience in needs assessment and creating instructional documentation

Please use the apply on line feature below or send your resume and cover letter to:

• Harvard University
  
• Resume Processing Center Req# 9221
  
• 11 Holyoke Street
  
• Cambridge, MA 02138
  

2. New Maps, Books, etc.

2.1 New Mapping of Western North America by Ken Rockwell

ALASKA

Imus, David, and Dunlavey, Patrick. Chugach State Park : Chugach Mountains, Alaska. Scale 1:100,000. Eugene, Oreg. : Imus Geographics, 2000. OCLC: 45966596

U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Beaver Creek National Wild River. Scale not given. Fairbanks, Alaska : U.S. BLM, Northern Field Office, pub. 2000. OCLC: 45967534

ARIZONA

iGage. All topo maps: Arizona. 6 computer optical discs : includes all the 1:24,000 and 1:250,000 scale maps. Salt Lake City, Utah : iGage, pub. 2000. OCLC: 45871094

CALIFORNIA

Clark, Joseph C., et al. Geologic map and map database of the Spreckels 7.5-minute quadrangle, Monterey County, California. Original scale 1:24,000. U.S. Geological Survey miscellaneous field studies no. MF 2349, pub. 2001. Access: http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/map-mf/mf2349/ OCLC: 45918177

Eittreim, Stephen. Seafloor rocks and sediments of the Continental Shelf from Monterey Bay to Point Sur, California. Original scale 1:100,000. U.S. Geological Survey miscellaneous field studies no. 2345, pub. 2000. Access: http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/map-mf/mf2345/ OCLC: 45917485

Falls, James N. Geologic and geomorphic features related to landsliding, Freshwater Creek, Humboldt County, California ; Relative landslide potential map, Freshwater Creek, Humboldt County, California. 2 maps on 2 sheets (photocopy), scale 1:24,000. Sacramento, CA : Division of Mines and Geology, 1999. OCLC: 46328562

Great Pacific Recreation & Travel Maps. San Francisco transit : all Muni routes + BART map & guide, complete Muni coverage, cable cars, street cars, Muni Metro & buses. BART, ferries, Caltrain, Amtrak & ACE, detailed downtown & Muni system maps. 2nd ed. 5 maps , scales differ. Bellevue, WA : Great Pacific Recreation & Travel Maps, 2000. OCLC: 45945422,/p>

Kellogg, Karl S. Geologic map of the Lockwood Valley quadrangle, Ventura County, California. Original scale 1:24,000. U.S. Geological Survey open-file report no. 99-0130; pub. 2001. Access: http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/pub/open-file-reports/ofr-99-0130/ OCLC: 45998414

Lacock, Joshua. Mt. Whitney adventure map 2000 : your two-sided guide ideal for hiking, biking, camping, skiing, fishing, touring - six maps in one. Scale 1:63,360. Clowley Lake, CA : Sierramaps.com, 2000. OCLC: 45966606

Lacock, Joshua. Yosemite adventure map 2000 : your two-sided guide ideal for hiking, biking, camping, skiing, fishing, touring - six maps in one. Scale 1:63,360. Clowley Lake, CA : Sierramaps.com, 2000. OCLC: 45966613

Redwood Community Action Agency. Humboldt Bay area bike map / developed by the Natural Resources Division of the Redwood Community Action Agency. Eureka, CA : Natural Resources Services, 1999. OCLC: 45906650

Spaceshots Inc. Southern California from space. 1 remote-sensing image, scale 1:690,000. Studio City, CA : Spaceshots Inc., pub. 2000.OCLC: 46323151

Tom Harrison Maps. Half Dome : Glacier Point, Yosemite Creek, Tenaya Lake, Little Yosemite Valley trail map. Scale 1:31,680. San Rafael, Calif. : Tom Harrison, 2000. OCLC: 45966620

Toppozada, Tousson R. Epicenters of and areas damaged by M > 5 California earthquakes, 1800- 1999. Scale ca. 1:1,500,000. Sacramento : California Division of Mines and Geology map sheet 49, pub. 2000. OCLC: 45860097

COLORADO

Carrara, Paul E. Geologic map of the Clifton quadrangle, Mesa County, Colorado. Original scale 1:24,000. U.S. Geological Survey miscellaneous field studies no. map MF-2359, pub. 2001. Access: http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/pub/mf-maps/mf-2359/ OCLC: 45945106

Cederstrand, Joel R., and Becker, Mark F. Digital map of base of aquifer for High Plains Aquifer in parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. Recommended output scale 1:1,000,000 or smaller. U.S. Geological Survey open-file report no. 98-393, pub. 2000. Access: http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/ofr/ofr98-393/index.html OCLC: 45994256

Colorado Division of Wildlife. Fishing the three rivers : a guide to the Roaring Fork, Fryingpan, and Crystal rivers. Scale not given. Lakewood, Colo. : U.S. Forest Service, 2000. OCLC: 46314329

Duval, Joseph S., et al. Gamma-ray, magnetic, and topographic data for parts of the Colorado Front Range. 1 computer optical disc. U.S. Geological Survey open-file report no. 00-331, pub. 20001. OCLC: 46347280

Fishman, Neil S. 3-D image of urban areas and mountains of the northern Front Range, Colorado 1 aerial view, scale varies. U.S. Geological Survey geologic investigations series no. I-2750-A, pub. 2000. OCLC: 46081730

iGage. All topo maps: Colorado. 3rd ed. 4 computer optical discs, includes all the 1:24,000 and 1:250,000 scale maps. Salt Lake City, Utah : iGage, 2000. OCLC: 45871117

Olofson, Jack O., and Olofson, Dody. Olle's Colorado fishing guide & atlas : national forests, state parks, state wildlife areas, nat'l. recreation areas, Rocky Mountain National Park, Metro Denver, Front Range. 1 atlas (264 p.) Hudson, Colo. : Outdoor Books & Maps, 2000. ISBN: 0930657411 OCLC: 45871696

IDAHO

iGage. All topo maps: Idaho. 7 computer optical discs, includes all the 1:24,000 and 1:250,000 scale maps. Salt Lake City, Utah : iGage, 2000. OCLC: 45871098

MONTANA

iGage. All topo maps: Montana. 5th ed. 6 computer optical discs, includes all the 1:24,000 and 1:250,000 scale maps. Salt Lake City, Utah : iGage, 2000. OCLC: 45871120

NEVADA

iGage. All topo maps: Colorado. 7th ed. 6 computer optical discs, includes all the 1:24,000 and 1:250,000 scale maps. Salt Lake City, Utah : iGage, 2000. OCLC: 45871091

Recently reported by Linda Newman at UN-Reno:

Castor, S. B., et al. Geologic map of the Frenchman Mountain Quadrangle, Clark County, Nevada. Scale 1:24,000. Reno : Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Map 127, pub. 2000. ($15.00)

DePolo, Craig M. Geologic Map of the Gardnerville Quadrangle, Douglas County, Nevada. Scale 1:24,000. Reno : Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Open file report 00-9, pub. 2000. ($12.00)

Faulds, James E. Geologic Map of the Southern Half of the Tule Peak Quadrangle, Washoe County, Nevada. Scale 1:24,000. Reno : Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Open file report 00-10, pub. 2000. ($12.00)

House, P. Kyle, et al. Geologic Map of the Argenta Quadrangle, Lander County, Nevada. Scale 1:24,000. Reno : Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Open file report 00-7, pub. 2000. ($12.00)

Ramelli, Alan R. Geologic Map of the Bateman Spring Quadrangle, Lander County, Nevada. Scale 1:24,000. Reno : Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Open file report 00-8, pub. 2000. ($12.00)

Purchase information:

• Charlotte Stock
  
• Publication Sales - Mail Stop 178
  
• Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
  
• University of Nevada
  
• Reno, NV 89557-0088
  
• PHONE (775) 784-6691 x2
  
• FAX (775) 784-1709
  
• nbmgsales@unr.edu

OREGON

U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service. Oregon annual precipitation. Scale 1:1,200,000. Ft. Worth, TX : USDA-NRCS National Cartography & Geospatial Center, pub. 1999. OCLC: 45881287

UTAH

California State Automobile Association. Southern Utah section. Scale ca. 1:570,000. San Francisco : California State Automobile Association, pub. 2000. ISBN: 1578350859 OCLC: 46328248

Coogan, James C., and Constenius, Kurt N. Progress report geologic map of the east part of the Provo 30’ x 60’ quadrangle. Scale 1:500,000. Salt Lake City, Utah : Utah Geological Survey, Open-file report no. 379, pub. 2001. OCLC: 45944442

Coogan, James C., and King, Jonathan K. Progress report geologic map of the Ogden 30’x60’ quadrangle, Utah and Wyoming : year 3 of 3. Scale 1:100,000. Salt Lake City, Utah : Utah Geological Survey, Open-file report no. 380, pub. 2001. Open-file report no. 380, pub. 2001. OCLC: 45944103

iGage. All topo maps: Utah. 8th ed. 7 computer optical discs, includes all the 1:24,000 and 1:250,000 scale maps. Salt Lake City, Utah : iGage, 2000. OCLC: 45871109

O'Sullivan, Robert Brett. Correlation of middle Jurassic San Rafael Group and related rocks from Bluff to Monticello in southeastern Utah. U.S. Geological Survey miscellaneous field studies map no. MF-2351, pub. 2000. Access: http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/pub/mf-maps/mf-2351/ OCLC: 45944431

WASHINGTON STATE

Boleneus, David E., and Causey, J. Douglas. Geologic datasets for weights of evidence analysis in northeast Washington. Original scale 1:100,000. USGS Open-file report no. 00-495, pub. 2000. Access: http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of00-495/ OCLC: 45835322

Gerstel, Wendy J. Geologic map of the Forks quadrangle, Washington. 1 map on 2 sheets, scale 1:100,000. Olympia, Wash. : Washington Division of Geology and Earth Resources, Open file report no. 2000-4, pub. 2001. OCLC: 45851095

Lindquist, Robert B. Washington Cascade mountains : recreation map & guide, Cascade Loop scenic hwy., Mt. Rainier National Park, Mt. St. Helens Nat'l Monument, Mt. Baker, Mt. Adams, North Cascades Nat'l Park. Scale 1:452,571. Bellevue, WA : Great Pacific Recreation Maps & Guides, pub. 2000. OCLC: 45945092

Lindquist, Robert B. Eastern Washington, North Idaho Panhandle : recreation map & guide Inland Empire region, Spokane & Coeur d'Alene Columbia River Basin parks, recreation areas & dams, Yakima & Wenatchee Valleys, Grand Coulee Dam, 1,500 pinpointed destinations. 4th ed. Scale ca. 1:500,000. Bellevue, WA : Great Pacific Recreation Maps & Guides, pub. 2000. OCLC: 45944783

Lindquist, Robert B., and Bruckbauer, Thomas. Olympic Peninsula, Washington Coast : recreation map & guide. 6th ed. Scale ca. 1:365,000. Bellevue, WA : Great Pacific Recreation Maps & Guides, pub. 2000. OCLC: 45944256

Miller, Fred K. Geologic map of the Chewelah 30' x 60' quadrangle, Washington and Idaho. Scale 1:100,000. USGS Miscellaneous field studies no. MF-2354, pub. 2001. Access: http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/map-mf/mf2354/ OCLC: 45913711

WESTERN STATES

Ferris, Warren Angus. Map of the Northwest fur country, 1836. Orem, Utah : Mountain Grizzly Pub., 2000. [Special limited ed., reproduction of manuscript map held at Brigham Young University Library Special Collections.] OCLC: 45997322

WYOMING

iGage. All topo maps: Wyoming. 7 computer optical discs, includes all the 1:24,000 and 1:250,000 scale maps. Salt Lake City, Utah : iGage, 2000. OCLC: 45871103

2.2 Other New Materials

2.2.1 The Truckee River Corridor and Donner Pass, Nevada and California

Lintz, Joe and Linda Newman. The Truckee River Corridor and Donner Pass, Nevada and California. Western Association of Map Libraries and Geoscience Information Society Joint Field Trip, November 11, 2000.

2.2.2 Geographic structures as census variables: Using geography to analyse social and economic processes

Statistics Canada. Geographic structures as census variables: Using geography to analyse social and economic processes 92F0138MIE, free) is now available on Statistics Canada's Web site http://www.statcan.ca.
From the Products and services page, choose Research papers (free), then Geographic reference. Paper copies (92F0138MPE, $10) can be ordered from the nearest Statistics Canada Regional Reference Centre.

For more information about the series, or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Geography Division (613-951-3889; fax: 613-951-0569; geohelp@statcan.ca.

2.3 Articles of Interest

2.3.1 The New York Times, Sunday March 11. The City Section, p. 3
Friedman, Andrew. CITY LORE: The Kingdom of the Maps: A Woman in Love With Cartography Presides Over a World of Shifting and Many-Layerred Images

2.4 Internet Resources

2.4.1 GIS Web Mapping list

From Brian Boyle gisconferences@pobox.com

Join the GIS Web Mapping list. This list is new and may not have a lot of subscribers for a few months. If you have any ideas or comments about our list please e-mail. This list will be used as an educational resource for GIS Web Mapping issues for all software users.

Post to the discussion group at webmapping@listbot.com Subscribe at http://webmapping.listbot.com or at http://www.gisconferences.com

2.4.2 The Places that Sound Good Enough to Eat

From Linda Zellmer Linda.Zellmer@asu.edu

The Places that Sound Good Enough to Eat site from the Oscar Mayer company http://www.oscar-mayer.com/products/soup.n.sandwich/placenamemap.html. It lists places that have place names related to soup and sandwiches.

2.4.3 Webbrain

A new search engine Webbrain is available at: http://www.webbrain.com. There are some interesting ways of organizing and displaying subject areas like cartography, geography, maps and GIS.

2.4.4 The USGS Map Projections poster is available online

From Jennifer Stone Muilenburg jnstone@u.washington.edu

The USGS Map Projections poster is available online at: http://mac.usgs.gov/mac/isb/pubs/MapProjections/projections.html

2.4.5 Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) has moved to a new server

From Roger L Payne rpayne@usgs.gov

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) online (Web) service has moved to a new server at: http://geonames.usgs.gov

This new Web site and service will host not only heavy-traffic GNIS Web service, but a consolidated set of pages about the Board on Geographic Names (BGN), toponymy, general information on geographic names, and related topics as well.

We request that Webmasters please update any links beginning with either of the following two URL bases:

• http://mapping.usgs.gov:8888/ ...
  
• http://www-nmd.usgs.gov:8888/ ...
  

Please be aware that if your site contains any embedded queries, it will not be sufficient just to change the server name from mapping.usgs.gov:8888 to geonames.usgs.gov. The (virtual) path names used in queries have changed (as we have advanced from Oracle's OWS to Oracle's IAS application server), as have the names of the query procedures themselves. Please visit the new site and use the query forms if you need to determine the new query paths and procedure names.

3.1 Meetings and Other Educational Opportunities

• WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF MAP LIBRARIES Spring Conference May 9 - 12, 2001 Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
. For more information see: http://www.lib.byu.edu/byline/Maps/Index.htm

From Thomas F. Sander sanderva@erols.com

• The ninth event of the Washington Map Society 2000-2001 program year will be held on Thursday March 22, 2001 at 7 PM,
when Pierre Sales will present Innovation: Reformatting History and Education. Mr. Sales, who is retired from the U.S. Foreign Service and the United Nations, will discuss his magus opus From Ancient Afryqah to Modern Africa ... History Revealing Clues to Current Issues. Of encyclopedic dimension, compressing 2,400 hard-copy pages and more than 500 historical maps, his tome was eleven years in the making. It covers the 53 countries of Africa and 18 Dependent Territories, an Overview, an Introduction entitled "Tracing Africa's Setting in the World from Ancient to Modern Times and its Linkage to Country Placenames, and a treatise on The 'Discovery' of Africa that uncovers the origin of the name Africa and traces its international acceptance as a continental name. Mr. Sales will describe the development of his extensive project and will display a number of sample pages, including maps. Finally, he will explain briefly the purposes of the non-profit organization he has established to provide free of charge copies of the CD primarily to inner-city schools. Visit http://www.afryqah.org for more information.

From Alice Hudson ahudson@nypl.org

• Heading West: Mapping the Territory opens March 9, 2001.
Some 175 maps, atlases, photographs and views from NYPL collections, primarily from the Map Division, illustrate the mapping of the American West, from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The exhibit will be on view until May 19, 2001.

Information and sample images from the exhibit, including a complete list of items on display, and information about the accompanying book---may all be seen on the NYPL website under Events & Exhibitions at: http://www.nypl.org

From Ree Brannon abrannon@uidaho.edu

• GIS metadata workshop - April 2, 2001 at the College of Natural Resources, Room 200, U of Idaho, Moscow, ID. Date/Time: 9 AM - 4 PM, Monday, April 2, 2001

Instructors: Bruce Godfrey, GIS Specialist, INSIDE Idaho Project, U of Idaho
Ree Brannon, Senior GIS Analyst, USGS Gap Analysis Program
Workshop Content:
• Overview of metadata
  
• Content Standards
  
• Software Tools
  
• Verification and Clearinghouses

The workshop is open to anyone who is interested in creating metadata or just curious to learn more about metadata.

From Jay Lester mapsguy@yahoo.com

• Wednesday, May 9, 2001, the Cumming Map Society will meet at the Chapel Hill Public Library in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
  Dr. H.G. Jones will give a presentation on The Shaping of North Carolina, showing present-day North Carolina on maps beginning with Ptolemy 1486 and continuing through the American Revolution. Dr. Jones is former Curator of the North Carolina Collection at UNC and is also a past Director of the North Carolina Division of Archives and History in Raleigh.

3.2 Upcoming International Conferences, Seminars, Talks, etc.

• The Canadian Cartographic Association (CCA), in collaboration with the Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives (ACMLA), and the geography departments of l'Université du Québec à Montréal and l' Université de Montréal, are happy to welcome you to our first conference of the new millennium, to be held in Montreal, May 30-June 3, 2001.

For more information see: http://www.geo.uqam.ca/Carto2001/carto2001e.htm

From Mark Kumler kumler@csusb.edu

• CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS for the Second International Conference on GIS in Education June 21-23, 2001 San Bernardino, California
. Last summer, the first International Conference on GIS in Education was held at California State University, San Bernardino. The inaugural conference was quite successful and attracted 280 participants from 8 countries and 40 states. CSUSB is pleased to announce plans to host a second conference this summer, and we invite you to participate by submitting a proposal for a presentation. Detailed instructions appear in the Call for Presentations below. Please share this with your colleagues, and consider joining us at this year's conference.

For more information see: http://cel.csusb.edu/conferences/gis/

• The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) conference (Sydney, 12-16 June 2001).

For more information see: http://www.archaeology.usyd.edu.au/ecai_2001/

• The E G R Taylor Lecture will take place at the Royal Geographical Society on Tuesday, 13 November 2001 at 6.30 p.m.
. The Lecture is arranged on rotation by the Institute of Navigation, the Royal Geographical Society and the Society for Nautical Research, which this year has invited Dr. Anita McConnell to speak on:
Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli (1658-1730): from professional soldier to Father of Oceanography.

The lecture is free, and open to all.

4. Contributors :

Larry W. Laliberte library@cier.ca
Ken Rockwell krockwel@library.utah.edu

5. The Western Association of Map Libraries (WAML)

WAML News and Notes is a moderated bulletin of the Western Association of Map Libraries.

The Western Association of Map Libraries (WAML) is an independent association established to encourage high standards in every phase of the organization and administration of map libraries.

Membership in WAML is open to any individual, institution, or business interested in furthering the purposes of the organization. For further information, contact the an officer listed below or visit the WAML web site at : http://www.waml.org/.

WAML Officers as of July 1, 2000

President
David Deckelbaum
University of California, Los Angeles
Maps and Government Information
4510 Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
(310) 825-3135
ddeckelb@library.ucla.edu

Vice President/President Elect
Christopher J.J. Thiry
Map Librarian
Arthur Lakes Library
Colorado School of Mines
PO Box 4029
Golden, CO 80401-0029
(303) 273-3697
Fax (303) 273-3199
cthiry@mines.edu

Treasurer
Muriel Strickland
2465 Baja Cerro Circle
San Diego, CA 92019
103251.1605@CompuServe.COM

Secretary
Wendie Helms
Map Collection
Science Library
University of California - Riverside
P.O. Box 5900
Riverside CA 92517-5900
(909) 787-6423
wendie.helms@ucr.edu

Past President
Greg Armento
University Library
California State University, Long Beach
Long Beach, CA 90840
(562) 985-4367
garmento@csulb.edu

Business Manager
Richard E. Soares
WAML Book & Fiche Sales Manager
Brigham Young University
P.O. Box 1667
Provo, UT 84603-1667
(801) 378-6179
Richard_Soares@byu.edu

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To submit items for release in Electronic News and Notes, contact the News & Notes Editor Larry Laliberte; e-mail: lwl@darkwing.uoregon.edu

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