Kathy, Mary, Everyone,
I found an example of a scanned map in this resource:
<http://www.archive.org/>. Search for "geology of the san andreas', It's
Bulletin 195 of the California Division of Mines and Geology. Full title is
"Geology of the San Andreas 15-Minute Quadrangle, Calaveras County,
California". There's many things I like about finding this available on the
web. For example, you get a quick preview of the scanned pages. You can
click on "pdf" and look at all the pages. The map is there in color.
However, I was surprised to find the map is split into two separate pieces.
Is that how all the maps will be scanned?
Wendie
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-calmap@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-calmap@ucdavis.edu] On Behalf
Of Mary Larsgaard
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 8:32 AM
To: UC/S Map Librarians
Subject: [CALMAP:555] digitizing of CA DWR and CA geol survey Bulletins
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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