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Maps, Cartographic Resources and GIS Information

This guide will help you locate maps, other cartographic resources, and GIS content held at the Gelman Library System and beyond.

Atlas of Global Development.  Glasgow: Collins; Washington, DC: World Bank, 2007
Illustrates the social, economic, and environmental issues that are facing our planet.  Provides maps, tables, graphs, text and photographs.  To access: click on link; at Catalog record, click on "Click here to access this book"; then "Contents"; then "1 Full Text"; then "Full Text PDF".

Atlas of North America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Location: GELMAN Ref Oversize G1105 .A8 2005

Atlas of World Affairs. London, New York: Routledge, 2007
Location: GELMAN Ref G1035 .B6 2007

nationalatlas.gov^TM
Nationalatlas.gov is the new National Atlas of the United States. The resource provides a comprehensive, maplike view into the wealth of geospatial and geostatistical data collected for the United States. Available features allows users to customize their own maps for printing or viewing, play with interactive maps, or print preformatted maps.

Routledge Atlas of American History. London ; New York : Routledge, 2006
Location: GELMAN Stacks G 1201 .S1 .G532 2006

Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World. London: Times Books, 2007
Location: GELMAN Ref Atlas Case G1021 .T55 2007

World History Atlas. London: Dorling Kindersley Pub., 2005
Location: GELMAN Stacks Oversize G1030 .W67 2005

The atlas case in Gelman Library is located behind the Reference & Information Desk on the 1st floor. In it are most of the oversized atlases. There are many other atlases in the Reference Collection and in the Stacks that are not in the atlas case. Use the ALADIN Catalog to find them.

To find an atlas on a particular topic in the ALADIN Catalog, use the "Advanced Search" tab. Use the term "atlas" (or "maps") and the term for the kind of atlas (or map) you seek.

Examples are:
     atlas china
     atlas "military history"
     atlas languages