What kind of maps does The Valley Library have?
All kinds! Road maps, geologic maps, soils maps, topographic and other maps showing physical features, political maps, bathymetric charts and many more covering all parts of the world and even other planets and star charts. The Valley Library is a federal depository library so we receive a lot of government maps, but we also purchase maps and atlases from publishing companies. How are maps organized at The Valley Library? For the most part, very much like other materials in the library. Many of our maps have entries either in the online catalog or, in the case of older materials, in the Maps card catalog (3rd floor, Maps & Government Publications). These give call numbers and location information. One of the easiest searches is to find maps using the place name as the subject (city, county, country, region, national forest, river, etc.) with –Maps or –Road maps or some other map designator (you can find more in the Library of Congress Subject Headings books). Sample subject heading s
