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baseline

baseline - issued five times a year, this newsletter contains information about MAGERT, its meetings and the popular comic "Great moments in map librarianship" by Jim Coombs.

Pre-2008 print copies of baseline are available from: Jim Coombs, Maps Library, Southwest Missouri State University, 901 S. National, #175, Springfield, MO for $-- per copy.

Coordinates

Online Journal of the Map & Geography Round Table
available at http://www.sunysb.edu/libmap/coordinates.htm

Electronic Publications Series

No. 1 Mary Larsgaard and Katherine Rankin, Helpful Hints for Small Map Collections

No. 2 Margaret Brill, Electronic Maps and Geographic Information Systems

No. 3 Metadata Primer for Map Librarians

No. 4 David Allen, Helpful Hints for the Paperless Map Librarian

No. 5 David Allen, Map Imaging Service Providers

No. 6 Michele Shular, A Guide to the Cartographic Products of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP)

Print Publications Series

Guide to U.S. Map Resources
3rd edition, 2006, $80.00 (ISBN 0-8108-5268-3)
Available from: Scarecrow Press, 4501 Forbes Blvd., Suite 200, Lanham, MD 20706 http://www.scarecrowpress.com/

The West Indies and Florida to 1900: An Annotated Carto-Bibliography, 1995, $25.00 (ISBN 0-8389-0547-1)
Available from: Jim Coombs, Maps Library, Southwest Missouri State University, 901 S. National, #175, Springfield, MO

Circulars

No. 1 Cartographic Citations--A Style Guide
1992 $10.00 ISBN 0-8389-7821-5

No. 2 Index to the Library of Congress "G" Schedule--A Map and Atlas Classification Aid
1996 $25.00

Available from: Jim Coombs, Maps Library, Southwest Missouri State University, 901 S. National, #175, Springfield, MO

Occasional Paper Series

No. 1 Exploration and Mapping of the American West, Selected Essays
1986 $20.00 ISBN 0-932757-01-4

No. 2 A Guide to Historical Map Resources for Greater New York
1988 $15 ISBN 0-932757-02-2

No. 3 Mapping the Transmississippi West, 1540-1861: An Index to the Cartobibliography
1992 $35.00 ISBN 0-932757-03

No. 4 Exploration and Mapping of the National Parks
1993 $40.00 ISBN 0-932757-04-9

Available from: Jim Coombs, Maps Library, Southwest Missouri State University, 901 S. National, #175, Springfield, MO

Committee Publications

Selected GIS Data Sites for Individual States

Guides to GIS and Other Computerized Mapping Products

Final Report of the MAGERT CCC Task Force on Using Dublin Core for Cartographic Materials

Sources of Demographic Data on the Web

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Open File Reports

*No. 86-1. Vick, Nancy, J. Guide to U.S. Map Resources: A Personal Name Index. 1986. 16 sheets. $1.60.

*No. 86-2. Sunnen, Linda, and Daniel O. Holmes. Map Room Acquistion Procedures: University of California, Berkeley: A Systems Analysis. 1984. 36 sheets. (An introductory examination of the problems, with suggested solutions) $3.60.

* No. 86-3. County Coordinates (4-corner latitude/longitude; degrees and minutes)

*No. 86-4 Vick, Nancy J. Latin America Cutter List: First and Second Order Administrative Divisions. August 1988. 30 leaves. (An expansion of the Library of Congress "G" classification schedule; excludes Mexico). $3.00.

* No. 86-5 Cobb, David A., United States Coordinates, 1986 , (4-corner latitude/longitude for each state--degrees and minutes)

No. 86-7 Sample Map Workforms for M.A.R.C. Input. 8 sheets (some printed on both sides). Locally devised OCLC, RLIN, and UTLAS input workforms.) $1.50.

* No. 88-1 Loeffler, Robert P. and Nancy Kandoian, An English Translation of Words Abbreviated in Ritter's Lexikon

* 88-2MAGERT Alphabetical Membership List. January 1990. Please check for price and date of most recent update.

* No. 88-3 Lorrain, Janice and Jim Coombs (with a "tip o' the hat" to Charles A. Seavey). A Map Index to the LC "G" schedule. 1988, rev. 1990. 23 leaves. $2.30. (A new, expanded, and improved set of base maps showing place names and "G" schedule 4-digit area numbers.)

* No. 89-1 Holmer, Heidi. U.S. National Parks and Forests Cutter List, Including National Historical Parks and Wilderness Areas. 1989. 21 leaves. (This OFR is periodically updated to include new parks, forests, and wilderness areas.) $2.10.

* No. 92-1 Kollen, Christine. Geographic Cutter List for Mexico: Regions, Districts and Towns and Cities. 1992. 17 leaves. $1.70.

* No. 92-2 Coombs, Jim. Great Moments in Map Librarianship: The First Ten Years of Cartoons. 1992. 30 leaves. $3.00.

* No. 94-1 Thiry, Christopher JJ. USSR 1:200,000 Index . 1994. 64 leaves. $6.40.

Meridian

Meridian: A Journal of the Map and Geography Roundtable of the American Library Association
Ceased with No. 16 (1999).
Selected back issues of Meridian are available from Jim Coombs, Maps Library, Southwest Missouri State
University, 901 S. National, #175, Springfield, MO 65804-0095. (417) 836-4534. JimCoombs@smsu.edu