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Maps and Mapping Services at the Merrill-Cazier Library, USU Collections Government Documents Special Collections Focus on Box Elder, Cache, USGS Topo quad maps and Rich counties Federal depository library City maps program

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Maps and Mapping Services at the Merrill-Cazier Library, USU

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Collections

Government Documents

USGS Topo quad maps
Federal depository library

program (FDLP) regional level depository library

Atlases (major collection for

library found here, but some in other places too)

Globes
Travel File

Special Collections

Focus on Box Elder, Cache,

and Rich counties

City maps
Sanborn fire insurance

maps

Tourist maps
Railroad maps
Highway maps
National Forest maps
USGS quads

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Services

Patron-driven
Types of users that come in for maps:

– Boy Scouts – maps badges, orienteering – Students who want to go hiking – Students doing research – Faculty and staff doing research – Hunters to locate hunting units – People looking up info for legal reasons e.g. right of way and roads

People want existing maps printed, maps created

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Resources Used

Use different resources depending on the request
Maps A-Z and Social Explorer subscriptions
Oldmapsonline.org
Google Earth, Google Maps, Scribble Maps,

EarthExplorer (USGS)

Rumsey Historical Maps in Google Earth gallery
ArcGIS (find .shp files with internet searches)
3D printed maps(.stl files)
Data from the Utah Automated Geographic

Reference Center (AGRC) https://gis.utah.gov/

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