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Expresses the library's thoughts on the automation of a map library using the Army Service Map Library and its experiences as the point of reference. The Army Map Service is one of the government pioneers in the use of electronic computers. The third agency to use the UNIVAC I, obtained approximately 15 years prior to publication of this report. For the purposes of this paper, automation is defined as the use electronic equipment, alone or in concert with film devices, for mechanical processing of mass data."--Introduction.
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
The text of four papers originally presented at a 1968 meeting of the Geography and Map Group, Washington Chapter, Special Libraries Association is printed in this booklet. Each of the papers deals with the origins and growth of Federal map collections. The first of these, "History of the Army Map Service Map Collection" by Mary Murphy, traces the history and personalities of the Army Map Service from World War I to 1968. "Congress' First Map Collection" by Richard W. Stephenson gives the early history of the Library of Congress map collection and discusses some of the items in the collection which were later destroyed. The third paper is titled "Early Years in the Map Division, Library of C...