good news!
Kathy, would you know if they're going
to scan folded maps?
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UC Davis and Internet Archive Make Important Geologic and Water
Resources Available
<http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/2009/02/09/uc-davis-and-internet-archive-make-important-geologic-and-water-resources-available/>
Monday, February 9th, 2009 | Category: General
<http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/category/general/>, Collection
Development
<http://cdlinfo.cdlib.org/blog/category/collection-development/>
By Karen Andrews, Head, Physical Sciences and Engineering Library, UC Davis
As part of UC’s mass digitization scanning efforts, the library of the
University of California, Davis, in consultation with the Government
Information Librarians (GILS) bibliographers group, and the Internet
Archive is currently engaged in two important digitization projects. The
first is the digitization of the Bulletin of the California Division of
Mines and Geology and the second is the digitization of the Bulletin of
the California Department of Water Resources. With over 1,100 issues,
both these resources have information that will be of interest to
scholars, professionals, and the general public.
The Bulletin of the California Division of Mines and Geology covers the
years 1888 to 2001. These volumes have basic information, including
maps, about the geology of California on both statewide and local
levels. They also contain information about the state’s mineral
resources, including gold deposits and mining. There are geologic
guidebooks, some covering locales that may no longer be accessible. Some
volumes cover geologic topics like urban geology from a statewide view.
The digitization project for the Bulletin of the California Department
of Water Resources covers the years 1922 to 2004. These volumes contain
huge amounts of data concerning nearly all aspects of water in
California. There is information on water law, water projects,
groundwater, water quality, flooding, and water conditions. Very often
the volumes contain maps and fold-outs. Some volumes describing major
floods of the past are of great historical interest.
The documents come from the collection of the UC Davis Physical Sciences
& Engineering Library, with a few volumes supplied by the UC Berkeley
Geology Library to fill in gaps.
The scanning is being conducted by the Internet Archive in San
Francisco. Funding for the scanning project is provided by Kahle/Austin
Foundation and Omidyar Network. The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3)
non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the
purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and
scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.
Upon completion (scheduled for late spring) the scanned collections will
be immediately available to the public via the Internet Archive web site
at http://www.archive.org/. To view documents completed to date, conduct
a search for "caminesgeo" or try "cawaterres" to retrieve examples.
Eventually, there will be links to the Internet Archive images from
within the UC Davis Harvest Catalog and the Melvyl Catalog.
--Mary Lynette Larsgaard Head, Map and Imagery Laboratory Davidson Library University of California, Santa Barbara 552 University Road Santa Barbara CA 93106-9010 USA mary@library.ucsb.edu http://www.sdc.ucsb.edu Webpage: http://www.sdc.ucsb.edu/~mary/ voice: 805/893-4049; 2779, reference desk fax: 805/893-8799
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