Resources

MAGIRT’s resources are the product of our many talented members who work hard within the challenging and highly rewarding realm of geospatial librarianship. We encourage you to contact our membership for questions or challenges that you are facing, to connect with like-minded people, to learn, or to impart some of your knowledge! MAGIRT-ers are happy to share what they know because we all know that we are better off being part of a community.

Contact information can be found via our Officers and Committee Chairs and our Get Involved in MAGIRT pages.

MAGIRT Resource Guide - it's ready for you!

MAGIRT members have been hard at work creating this online resource guide for all of us involved in the geospatial librarianship world.  Information is free for you to use (and contribute to) on topics ranging from what MAGIRT is up to, GIS data, geospatial technologies and topics of interest, to a professional development toolkit.  Check it out @ http://magirt.ala.libguides.com/resources.

MAGIRT Map Scanning Registry

The goals of the ALA MAGIRT Map Scanning Registry are to:

• Find out what scanning is being planned, in process, or complete for a particular geographic area
• Head off any duplication of effort
• Provide a resource to use for finding a particular digital image
• Provide a resource for reviewing the various technical parameters used in different projects

To Register and for more information, go to http://mapregistry.library.arizona.edu/

Digital Imaging of Maps for Preservation and Access

Map and Geography Sites

Article by David Allen in RLG Diginews (August 15, 1998)

Other Professional Organizations Concerned with Maps

• ACMLA (Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives)
• American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS)
• Australian Map Circle
• Geoscience Information Society
• IFLA/International Federation of Library Associations, Section of Geography and Map Libraries
• LIBER/Groupe des Cartothécaires
• Map Curators Group of the British Cartographic Society
• North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS)
• NEMO/ North East Map Organization
• Special Libraries Association, Geography and Map Division
• Western Association of Map Librarians (WAML)

Selected Links to Sites with Extensive Cartographic Resources

• Infomine: Maps & GIS
• University of California, Berkeley
• University of Connecticut Map Library
• University of Minnesota, Borchert Map Library
• Perry-Castañada Library Map Collection (University of Texas at Austin)
• University of Waterloo Cartographic Materials Home Page

Revised 3/11/2013