Yes, They plan on scanning the maps!
Kathy Stroud, Map/GIS Librarian
Biological/Agricultural Sciences and Map Services, Shields Library
100 NW Quad Ave.
Davis, CA 95616-5292
530-752-5248
----- "Mary Larsgaard" <mary@library.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> good news!
> Kathy, would you know if they're going
> to scan folded maps?
>
> ---snip---
>
>
> 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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