Guide to U.S. Map Resources

More than fourteen years have passed since the second edition of the Map and Geography Round Table's Guide to U.S. Map Resources appeared in 1990. The third edition offers users a detailed snapshot of and guide to hundreds of map collections and cartographic resources in libraries and repositories throughout the nation. Geographic information systems (GIS), the World Wide Web, email, Portable Document Format, data sets, the Internet and digitization have all played revolutionary roles in transforming libraries-and map collections in particular-over the past fifteen years. Today's librarian who works with maps is no longer limited by the contents of his or her own collection. In many cases the librarian can turn to the Internet and locate a map or data set physically located in a library hundreds of miles away.