These are great maps. Many libraries may have them catalogued under the
series rather as maps. They were published as companions to the United
States. Dept. of Agriculture Report no. 100. - Potash from kelp.
If your colleagues does not want them. I am sure a library on the west coast
of the U.S. would.
Hope this helps.
-Janet
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Oregon State University/Hatfield Marine Science Center
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-----Original Message-----
From: Liz DeHart [mailto:liz@utmsi.utexas.edu]
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 1:29 PM
To: iamslic@ucdavis.edu
Subject: [IAMSLIC:2038] rare maps collection?
Dear Members:
Library liaison at U. of Mississippi would like to know if these maps are
"worth" keeping in their library:
He writes:
I got the weirdest question from our library yesterday that maybe you can
help me with. They're trying to decide what to do with a collection of
1912 "Maps of Kelp Distribution" in California. I've attached the
originating discussion below
Only three libraries list this map collection on OCLC, including MSU.
Of the two big university systems in CA, only one library claims to have
these maps. However, I don't know if they qualify as rare. Since they
are from 1912, its possible other libraries have them but they were not
cataloged--that's not unusual for older items in archives or rare book
collections. You know how it is with limited resources, more current
or heavily used items get priority for retrospective cataloging in the
OPAC.
I'm betting if anyone else has these, they're in as bad condition as
ours.
The collection has 61 maps, but we have only 37 of them linked (they
are linked by map number, and that's why it looks like we have 51 maps).
I think we are now missing 1 or 2 maps. So we have about half of that
collection (whether we ever had the entire collection is unknown).
I've checked our area and third floor and cannot locate any other maps for
this collection. The record's dbcn is ADJ-3619.
I'm our department's rep to the library so they have asked me if we
should keep them. Do you have any suggestions? Are these like famous
little-known things that will help propel MSU into the 21st century? Or are
they
just crumpled paper in a drawer? Let me know if you have any ideas.
Thanks.
Thanks,
Best regards,
Liz
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361-749-6725
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