Maps and Geospatial Information: Map tools for librarians

• Discovery interface to Aerial Photographs of Colorado owned by the Colorado School of Mines Library
• Discovery interface to topographic maps of the world at scales 1:50,000 to 1:125,000 owned by the Colorado School of Mines Library
• Discovery interface to topographic maps of the world at scales 1:200,000 to 1:253,440 owned by the Colorado School of Mines Library
•              Swipe version of Discovery interface to topographic maps of the world at scales 1:200,000 to 1:253,440
• Discovery interface to scanned topographic maps of the world at scales 1:50,000 to 1:125,000
• Discovery interface to scanned topographic maps of the world at scales 1:200,000 to 1:253,440

 
Clearinghouse of GIS-made indexes to paper map sets

Instructions

• Creating map indexes, map packages, and map services using ArcGIS 10.3 -- This is a step-by-step guide of how to create an index map to map sets using ArcGIS 10.3.
• Creating map indexes, map packages, and map services using ArcGIS 10.2 -- This is a step-by-step guide of how to create an index map to map sets using ArcGIS 10.2.

NOTE ON THESE FILES: This file was developed for the Colorado School of Mines Library. You do NOT have to follow the styles used (color, font, file names, etc.).  Please use these as guides, not as absolute rules.
 
Using Arcgis.com to create a discovery interface for map sets -- Instructions of how to create a web site through arcgis.com.
 

• PDF to my ALA webinar (May 7, 2014), "Map Indexes: a practical application of GIS for a map collection" 

Useful Links:

• Bounding Box Tool for Metadata Enrichment -- free website that allows you to draw a box using the corner latitude / longitude coordinates, and translates the box into MARC 034 & 255 fields.
• DIVA-GIS -- GIS files of outline maps of countries--includes province boundaries, water courses.

• The Map Librarians' Toolbox by the Western Association of Map Libraries (WAML)
• Library of Congress G-Schedule Cutter List for Maps