Electronic Version, Part 12, December, 1999. To be included in a future print version of the Information Bulletin.
1. News
1.1 MAGERT Mid Winter Schedule available online
1.2 Open position at Syracuse University
1.3 Open position at Michigan State University
1.4 FGDC WebEvent Metadata Training Calendar
1.5 New pricing for USGS National Park maps
1.6 Mapping Europe's historic boundaries and borders
1.7 USGS Business Partners brochure
1.8 Map-On-Demand Printing from the USGS
1.9 Library Programs Service sending shipping lists to all libraries
1.10 GIS & Map Librarian position at Stanford University
2. New Maps, Books, Etc.
2.1 New Mapping of Western North America compiled by Ken Rockwell
2.2 Other new materials
2.2.1 Looking for Russian city and town maps?
2.2.2 USGS GNIS Digital Gazetteer available
2.3 Articles of Interest
2.3.1 Air & Space Smithsonian
2.3.2 Bulletin of the Society of Cartographers
2.3.3 Mosaic
2.3.4 PE&RS : Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing
2.3.5 SpatialNews Newsmagazine
2.4 Internet resources
2.4.1 Spatial Glossary
2.4.2 State Fact Sheets online
2.4.3 Current Geographical Publications
2.4.4 Canadian Geoscience Maps and Publications
2.4.5 Hopkins maps of Pittsburgh online
2.4.6 Clearinghouse Teleconference notes online
2.4.7 Penn State Map Library's new web address
2.4.8 TopoZone
3. Meetings and other educational opportunities
3.1 Upcoming International Conferences, Seminars, Talks, etc.
3.2 Workshops
4. Contributors to this issue
5. The Western Association of Map Libraries
1.1 MAGERT MidWinter Schedule available online - For everyone planning to attend to attend the ALA Midwinter Conference, the MAGERT preliminary schedule is now available. It is posted on the MAGERT Web site (http://www.sunysb.edu/libmap/magert1.htm). The Conference will be held in San Antonio, Texas, from January 14-19.
1.2 Open position at Syracuse University
MAPS/GIS LIBRARIAN. Reports to head, Maps & Government Information Department (a U.S. depository collection) and oversees the Library's cartographic collections and related services, including reference, user education, collection development, maps processing, and coordination of maps cataloging with technical services. For more on the position and minimum salary, see http://libwww.syr.edu/information/employment/maps.htm.
1.3 Open position at Michigan State University
Map/GIS Librarian, Librarian I or II (LIB 108) - Responsibilities: Reporting to the Head of the Government Documents Library, the successful candidate will take responsibility for the management and operation of the Map/GIS Library. This includes technical services and public services functions as well as collection development and management in the areas of maps and geography. For more information about Michigan State University Libraries, visit our website at http://www.lib.msu.edu/.
1.4 FGDC WebEvent Metadata Training Calendar - To check on metadata training opportunities near you, look at the FGDC WebEvent Metadata Training Calendar. The site is located at http://www.fgdc.gov/cgi-bin/people/META/WebEvent/WebEvent.
1.5 New pricing for USGS National Park maps
The U.S. Geological Survey will implement a new price for all USGS National Park maps on December 6, 1999. All USGS National Park maps whether folded or flat, printed on paper or plastic will be the same price. The new price for all USGS National Park maps will be $7.00 per sheet, plus a $5.00 handling charge per order. An online list of USGS National Park maps and an online order form are available at http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/products/mappubs.html.
1.6 Mapping Europe's historic boundaries and borders
The European Science Foundation has awarded FF 100,000 (about Pnds 9600 or $US 15400) to support an "exploratory workshop in the humanities" on historic boundary mapping. The workshop will be held at the European University Institute in Florence on June 1st-3rd 2000.
1.7 USGS Business Partners brochure
The USGS has published a full color, folded brochure which shows the variety of published maps and posters available to USGS Business Partners (map dealers). It was designed as a marketing tool for Business Partners and will be distributed to them for use in selling USGS products. In addition to maps, the brochure also shows a few examples of products available through the digital cartographic data and the aerial photography product lines of the Business Partner Program. When fully opened the brochure becomes a 24" X 27" poster.
The brochure, titled "Discover the many types of maps available from the U.S. Geological Survey," is intended for distribution by Business Partners and will not be available for distribution through the USGS ESIC's. State ESIC's that are also Business Partners will receive copies automatically; other State ESIC's can request a few copies of the brochure for office use if desired from USGS Information Services, Box 25286, Denver, CO 80225 (FAX: 303-202-4693). The FFS file number is 67-PB1.
1.8 Map-On-Demand Printing from the USGS
Using print-on-demand technology, the USGS is implementing map-on-demand (MOD) printing for selected, infrequently requested map products. With the advent of newer technologies, high-speed, large-format printers have been coupled with innovative computer technologies to turn digital map data into a printed map. It is now possible to store and retrieve data from large geospatial data bases and to print a map when needed, thereby eliminating the need to warehouse a paper inventory of products for which there is low demand.
The paper and inks used in the MOD process are not as durable as those used in traditional USGS lithographic products. Although the inks are ultraviolet resistant, they are not water stable. These products must be protected from high humidity and wet conditions and from prolonged and consistent exposure to the sun and other radiation sources. The MOD maps can be written on with either ink or pencil with no smudging and they can be heat laminated with no "bleeding" of colors.
To view the MOD products currently available or obtain an order form for MOD products, please visit the MOD Web site at http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/mod.
1.9 Library Programs Service sending shipping lists to all libraries
As of October 1, 1999, the Library Programs Service (LPS) is distributing USGS map shipping lists to all depository libraries, whether or not they select the maps. Libraries that do select the USGS maps will continue to receive shipping lists from USGS, as well as from LPS.
1.10 GIS & Map Librarian position at Stanford University - Stanford's Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections has a open position for a GIS & Map Librarian. For more information, please check the site at http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/humres/65.html.
2.1 New Mapping of Western North America by Ken Rockwell
ALASKAAlaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys. 900 Hz coplanar resistivity of the Ruby area, central Alaska. 1 map on 2 sheets, scale 1:63,360. The Division's Report of investigations no. 98-5, pub. 1998. OCLC #42842528
Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys. 7200 Hz coplanar resistivity of the Ruby area, central Alaska. 1 map on 2 sheets, scale 1:63,360. The Division's Report of investigations no. 98-6, pub. 1998. OCLC #42842225
Trails Illustrated. Kachemak Bay State Park, Alaska. Scale ca. 1:105,600. Evergreen, Colo.: Trails Illustrated, 1999. OCLC #42897728
Trails Illustrated. Prince William Sound east, Chugach National Forest, Alaska. Scale ca. 1:105,600. Evergreen, Colo.: Trails Illustrated, 1998. OCLC #42850694
Nelson, Steven W. Preliminary geologic map of the Chugach National Forest Special Study Area, Alaska. Scale 1:63,360. Version 1.0. USGS Open-file report no. 99-362, pub. 1999. OCLC #42739445
Wilson, Frederic H., et al. Digital data for the geologic framework of the Alaska Peninsula, southwest Alaska, and the Alaska Peninsula terrane. Original scale 1:250,000 or smaller. VERSION 1.0 USGS Open-file report no. 99-317, pub. 1999. OCLC #42827792
ALBERTA
Allmaps Canada Limited. Alberta provincial map: including 15 metropolitan maps... Scale 1:1,500,000. Markham, Ont.: Allmaps Canada Ltd., 1998. OCLC #42762976
ARIZONA
Condit, Christopher D. Lithologic, age group, magnetopolarity, and geochemical maps of the Springerville Volcanic Field, east-central Arizona. 4 maps and 20 sections on 5 sheets, scale 1:100,000. USGS Miscellaneous investigations series no. I-2431, pub. 1999. OCLC #42811347
CALIFORNIA
Bathymetry and selected perspective views of Lake Tahoe, California and Nevada. USGS Water Resources Investigations no. 99-4043-1, pub. 1999. Also available at http://blt.wr.usgs.gov. --reported by Linda Newman, UNR
Brabb, Earl E., et al. Geology of the Palo Alto 30 x 60 minute quadrangle, California, a digital database. Original scale 1:62,500 or smaller. USGS Open-file report no. 98-348, pub. 1998. ACCESS: http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of98-348 or ftp://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/pub/open-file/of98-348 OCLC #42836680
California Dept. of Boating and Waterways. Smith River National Recreation Area. Scale ca. 1:170,000. Sacramento, CA: The Dept., 1998. OCLC #42779864
California Dept. of Water Resources, San Joaquin District. Lines of equal elevation of water in wells, unconfined aquifer, San Joaquin Valley: Spring 1998. Scale ca. 1:253,440. Photocopy. Fresno: The Dept., 1998. OCLC #42750484
Trails Illustrated. Channel Islands National Park, California. 5 maps on 1 sheet, scales ca. 1:39,000 and 1:24,000. Evergreen, Colo.: Trails Illustrated, 1999. OCLC #42851506
U.S. Geological Survey. Map[s] showing locations of damaging landslides in ... County, California, resulting from 1997-98 El Niņo rainstorms. Scale 1:125,000. USGS Miscellaneous field studies maps no. MF-2325 A-J, pub. 1999. Also available online: http://purl.acces.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS3397. OCLC #42776560
COLORADO
Pierson Graphics Corp. Northern Colorado front range cities: street atlas. 1 atlas, scales differ. Denver, CO: Pierson Graphics Corp., 1999. OCLC #42762826
GREAT BASIN
Reheis, Marith C. Extent of Pleistocene lakes in the western Great Basin. Scale 1:800,000. USGS Miscellaneous field studies map MF-2323, pub. 1999. Also available as a PDF file at http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/pub/mf-maps/mf-2323/ OCLC #42061234. (Credit to Linda Newman, UNR, for catching this one I missed!)
IDAHO
U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Idaho State Office. Snake River, Idaho, recreation guide: Three Island Crossing to Massacre Rocks. Scale not given. [Boise, Idaho?]: Bureau of Land Management, Idaho, 1999. OCLC #42858100
NEVADA
Langenheim, Victoria E. Isostatic gravity map of the Las Vegas 30- x 60-minute quadrangle, California and Nevada. Scale not given. USGS Open-file report no. 99-398, pub. 1999. ACCESS: http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of99-398 OCLC #42828868
Shawe, Daniel R. Geologic map of the Manhattan quadrangle, Nye County, Nevada. Scale 1:24,000. USGS Geologic quadrangle map GQ-1775, pub. 1999. OCLC #42795904
NEW MEXICO
U.S. Geological Survey. Digital aeromagnetic data from the Sandoval-Santa Fe, Belen, and Cochiti Airborne Surveys covering areas in Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Socorro, and Valencia counties, New Mexico. 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.) USGS Open-file report no. 99-404, pub. 1999. OCLC #42806426 Enhanced image files: http://rmmcweb.cr.usgs-gov/public/mrgb/airborne.html
OREGON
Madin, Ian, and Wang, Zhengming. Relative earthquake hazard maps for selected urban areas in western Oregon: Astoria-Warrenton, Brookings, Coquille,Florence-Dunes City, Lincoln City, Newport, Reedsport-Winchester Bay, Seaside- Gearhart-Cannon Beach, Tillamook. 9 maps on 2 sheets, scale 1:24,000. Oregon Dept. of Geology and Mineral Industries, Interpretive map series IMS-10, pub. 1999. OCLC #42904875
Oregon Metropolitan Service District. Bike there!: pedal your way to a greener community. Scale 1:47,520. Portland, OR: Metro, 1999. OCLC #42905537
Priest, George R., et al. Tsunami hazard map of the Astoria area, Clatsop County, Oregon. Scale 1:24,000. Oregon Dept. of Geology and Mineral Industries, Interpretive map series IMS-11, pub. 1999. OCLC #42751558
Priest, George R., et al. Tsunami hazard map of the Warrenton area, Clatsop County, Oregon. Scale 1:24,000. Oregon Dept. of Geology and Mineral Industries, Interpretive map series no. IMS-12, pub. 1999. OCLC #42758449
PACIFIC NORTHWEST
Pittmon Map Company. Pacific Northwest: includes Idaho, Montana, Northern California, northern Nevada, northern Utah, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming. Scale ca. 1:2,000,000. Portland, Or.: Oregon Blue Print Co., 1999. OCLC #42764253
Walker, Mike. Steam Powered Video's comprehensive railroad atlas of North America: Pacific Northwest, including Alaska & Hawaii. 76 p., scales differ. Faversham, Kent [England]: Steam Powered Publications, 1998. OCLC #42795769
UTAH
Jensen, Mark E. Geologic map of the Brigham City 7.5-minute quadrangle, Box Elder and Cache counties, Utah. 1 map and 1 sheet of sections, scale 1:24,000. Utah Geological Survey Map no. 173, pub. 1999. OCLC #42857727
WASHINGTON STATE
Blakely, Richard J. Puget Sound aeromagnetic maps and data. Scale not given. Version 1.0, USGS open-file report 99-514, pub. 1999. ACCESS: http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of99-514 or ftp://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/pub/open-file/of99-514/maps. OCLC #42858156
Gerstel, Wendy J. Deep-seated landslide inventory of the west- central Olympic Peninsula, Washington. 1 map on 2 sheets, scale 1:48,000. Photocopy. Washington Division of Geology and Earth Resources, Open file report no. 99-2, pub. 1999. OCLC #42756349
Washington State Department of Natural Resources. Puget Sound intertidal habitat inventory 1996 for Skagit County and northern Whidbey Island area of Washington State. 1 computer optical disc, original scales differ. Olympia, Wash.: The Dept., 1999. OCLC #42839605
Washington State Resource Mapping Section, Cartography Unit. Chuckanut Mountain trail systems. Scale [1:48,154]. Olympia, Wash.]: Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources, 1999. OCLC #42904434
WYOMING
GTR Mapping. Topographic travel map of Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks & adjacent areas. Scale ca. 1:250,000. Canon City, CO: GTR Mapping, 1998. OCLC #42846213
2.2 Other New Materials
2.2.1 Looking for Russian city and town maps? - Check out the site at http://www.calle.com/world/. The site includes 3,000,000 maps from around the world, with maps for 209,528 cities and towns in Russia. There is also Sher's Russian Web at http://www.websher.net.
2.2.2 USGS GNIS Digital Gazetteer available - The USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) Digital Gazetteer CD-ROM, July 1999 version, is now available. The new CD contains updated information as of July 1999; no changes to the software or the databases have been made.
2.3 Articles of Interest
2.3.1 Air & Space Smithsonian, December 1, 1999, v. 14, no. 5
- Fleischman, John. A Flight Along America's Highway, p. 78.
2.3.2 Bulletin of the Society of Cartographers, 1997, v.31, no. 2
- White, Ben. Electronic Atlases: In Theory and In Practice, p. 5
2.3.3 Mosaic, December 1, 1999, v.32, no. 4
- Jacobs, Joshua S. Mapping After the Holocaust: The "Atlases" of Adrienne Rich and Gerhard Richter, p. 111.
2.3.4 PE&RS: Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, December 1, 1999, v. 65, no. 12
- Zhang, Jingxiong and Kirby, Roger P. Alternative Criteria for Defining Fuzzy Boundaries Based on Fuzzy Classification of Aerial Photographs and Satellite Images, p. 1379
2.3.5 SpatialNews Newsmagazine, Issue #11, November 23, 1999 - http://www.spatialnews.com/newsletter/newsletter11/contents.html
2.4 Internet Resources
2.4.1 Spatial Glossary - Available at http://www.spatialnews.com/newsletter/newsletter11/section10.html.
2.4.2 State Fact Sheets online - Electronic versions of USGS fact sheets listed by State are available on the World Wide Web at http://water.usgs.gov/public/wid/index-state.html.
2.4.3 Current Geographical Publications - The October 1999 issue of Current Geographical Publications is available online at http://leardo.lib.uwm.edu/cgp.
2.4.4 Canadian Geoscience Maps and Publications
Looking for Canadian Geoscience maps and publications? Check out the Canadian Geoscience Publication Directory, providing "one Window" Internet access to Canadian Federal / Provincial / Territorial geoscience maps and publications. http://NTSERV.GIS.NRCAN.GC.CA.
2.4.5 Hopkins maps of Pittsburgh online - The University of Pittsburgh has mounted G. M. Hopkins maps. First, check out Historic Pittsburgh at http://digital.library.pitt.edu/pittsburgh/.
2.4.6 Clearinghouse Teleconference notes online
A teleconference was held this past Wednesday, December 12th to describe status and directions of the Clearinghouse Activity. The notes are online in HTML form and in PowerPoint and include some additions from Dawn Wright, the co-investigator in the NSDI Clearinghouse usability analysis project. Next telecon will be in three months (March timeframe).
2.4.7 Penn State Map Library's new web address
The Penn State Maps Library has a new homepage address. It is http://www.libraries.psu.edu/crsweb/maps. Additionally, the Penn State Digital Chart of the World site has been rated as a Top Ten pick on the Ten Links site. To access it or the other GIS sites go to: www.tenlinks.com/MapGIS/data.htm. Then choose #7 - Digital Chart of the World Data Server.
2.4.8 TopoZone - http://www.topozone.com/
You can find maps here for almost two million outdoor places throughout the United States -- from Kauai's Waialeale, one of the world's wettest places, to Death Valley's Furnace Creek, a low-lying hot spot, to Alaska's Denali, North America's highest mountain. Maps a la carte, Inc. worked with the U.S. Geological Survey to create easy web access to the USGS collection of topographic maps "that don't leave big blank spaces between the highways." This is a resource that geographers, outdoor explorers, and anyone who loves cartography will want to bookmark.
3.1 Upcoming International Conferences, Seminars, Talks, Etc.
Maps and Society (Warburg Institute, London), Ninth Series Programme for 1999-2000
Meetings are held at the University of London, Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB at 5.00 pm on a THURSDAY.
- December 9, 1999 - Professor Bruce Lenman (Department of Modern History, University of St. Andrews). War a Catalyst for Cartography: The Cases for Cartagena de Indias and Havana, 1660-1762.
- January 20, 2000 - Dr Yolande Hodson, F.S.A. Maps and Society in Twentieth-Century Britain.
- February 17, 2000 - Professor Charles Withers (Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh). The Social Nature of Map-Making in the Enlightenment.
- March 30, 2000 - Ian Mumford (Department of Typography and Graphic Communication, University of Reading). Lithographed Maps - Art or Artefact? A Round-Table Discussion.
- May 4, 2000 - Sarah Tyacke (Keeper, Public Record Office). Charting the East Indies before Amboyna (1621).
- May 18, 2000 - Dr Jim Egan (Department of English, Brown University, Providence). 'From India's Savage Plain': Maps from Eighteenth-Century Georgia and the Colonial American South.
Pecora 14 Land Satellite Information III: Demonstrating the value of satellite imagery. Doubletree Hotel, Denver, Colorado, 6 - 10 December 1999. The imaging and geospatial society, ASPRS is the organizer. For more imformation, see http://www.asprs.org.
American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM), Little Rock, Arkansas, 18 - 22 March 2000. Details may be found at the ACSM website http://www.survmap.org.
Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, PA, 4 - 8 April 2000. There will be several sessions related to Historical GIS at the annual conference. The initial proposal is for four sessions, entitled as follows:
- Historical GIS I: The City
- Historical GIS II: New Approaches to the Analysis of Change
- Historical GIS III: Poster Session
- Visualising History: Paper and Electronic Atlases
Second Iinternational Symposium on Telegeoprocessing, Nice-Sophia -Antipolis, France, 10 - 12 May, 2000
Scope of the conference: This conference aims at bringing together all people carrying out research in novel systems in telegeoprocessing, cross-fertilization between Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Telecommunications. Telegeoprocessing can be defined as a new discipline based on real time spatial databases updated regularly by means of telecommunications systems in order to support online decision-making. Overall attention will be given to systems based on Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and all other technologies for sending data from sensors to GIS systems by means of wireless communications. For more information, see http://www.insa-lyon.fr/Labos/LISI/telegeo/.
Historical GIS Workshop: Mapping Europe's Boundaries and Borders, Florence, Italy, June 2000. For more information, see the site http://www.esf.org/hp/call99.htm.
IASSIST 2000 Data in the Digital Library: social, spatial, and government data services, Evanston, Illinois at Northwestern University, 7 - 10 June 2000.
IASSIST conferences bring together data professionals, data producers, and data analysts from around the world who are engaged in the creation, acquisition, processing, maintenance, distribution, preservation, and use of numeric social science data for research and instruction.
National Conference on GIS in Education, California State University, San Bernardino, 15 - 19 July 2000.
To meet the needs of educators and administrators, the California State University, San Bernardino Colleges of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Education, and Extended Learning are pleased to collaborate with Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) to offer this conference. The conference promises to be the premier GIS/education event in the nation, and is the first of its kind.
40th Annual Conference of the Western History Association, San Antonio, TX, 11 - 14 October 2000.
3.2 Workshops
Discovering GIS 1999-2000. Introductory ArcView Workshop for Educators K-12. Presented by the Center for Image Processing in Education, P.O. Box 13750, Tucson, AZ 85732-3750. Telephone: 800-322-9884 fax: 520/327-0175. The Center will have workshops throughout the country in 2000. Please check their site http://www.cipe.com for more information.
3.2 Workshops
Discovering GIS 1999-2000. Introductory ArcView Workshop for Educators K-12. Presented by the Center for Image Processing in Education, P.O. Box 13750, Tucson, AZ 85732-3750. Telephone: 800-322-9884 fax: 520/327-0175. The Center will have workshops throughout the country in 2000. Please check their site http://www.cipe.com for more information.
Lucinda M. Hall hallx030@tc.umn.edu
Ken Rockwell krockwel@library.utah.edu
Dale Steele dasteel@dlapr.lib.az.us
Kathryn Womble kwomble@u.washington.edu
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Greg Armento
University Library
California State University, Long Beach
Long Beach, CA 90840
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garmento@csulb.eduVice President/President Elect
David Decklebaum
University of California, Los Angeles
Maps and Government Information
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ddeckelb@library.ucla.eduTreasurer
Muriel Strickland
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103251.1605@CompuServe.COMSecretary
Jenny Stone
University of Washington
Map Collection & Cartographic
Information Services
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Seattle, WA 98195-2900
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jnstone@u.washington.eduPast President
Linda Zellmer
Arizona State University Libraries
Map Collection
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(602) 965-5973
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