Hi Mike,
Cynthia is right. David and I are both working on trying to get the UC/SU
money to Library of Congress. Hopefully we'll have good news before the
next meeting. We can only scan the maps prior to 1923 because of copyright
issues. That is still nearly 19,000 maps. I believe the Proquest product
is more complete in terms of coverage.
Julie
Quoting Cynthia Jahns <cjahns@ucsc.edu>:
> Hi Mike,
>
> Yes, I've got June 15th marked off on my calendar.
> You are right, a CDL purchase of the Sanborn maps was put off because
> of 2 things: it's not a great product (scratchy black and white
> images), and the possibility of getting LC to do the scanning. Julie
> may chime in with more details, but the current situation is that we
> are trying to find a legal way to "gift" money to LC to support the
> project.
>
> See you in June - Cynthia
>
> At 5:12 PM -0800 2/23/07, Michael Smith wrote:
> >Hello all,
> >
> >Megan and I just want to confirm the day of Fri. June 15th for the
> >next Calmap meeting, to be held again at UCSD. We should be making
> >the arrangements fairly soon.
> >
> >Also, can someone provide me with some background on a possible CDL
> >purchase of the Sanborn maps of California from ProQuest? I do have
> >a price quote from May 2006. Was this not pursued because of the
> >cost and the possible scanning project with the Library of Congress?
> >What is the current status of that project?
> >
> >Thanks and see you in June,
> >
> >Mike
> >
> >--------------------------------------------------------
> >Michael L. Smith
> >Map Librarian
> >Social Sciences & Humanities Library
> >University of California, San Diego
> >9500 Gilman Drive, 0175R
> >La Jolla, CA 92093-0175
> >
> >email: mls003@ucsd.edu
> >phone: 858-534-1248
> >fax: 858-534-7548
>
>
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Julie Sweetkind-Singer
Head Librarian, GIS & Map Librarian
Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections
Stanford University
650-725-1102
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