Cataloging our Lunar Map at Stanford University
Our lunar map has arrived at Stanford, and the next step is to make it readily available to students and faculty via online search tools. I started the process by donating our map to the David Rumsey Map Collection, but found that the physical maps are archived at the Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections.
After a long email discussion with the various Stanford map librarians, it seems that they are ready to catalog our lunar map using several of their online services.
From Zoe Y. G. Dilles | Map Librarian
Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections | Stanford University
397 Panama Mall | Stanford, California USA | 94305
Hello Megan,
Thanks for reaching out with your interest in donating your map "The Eskey System: A Planetary Address framework based on quadrangles and low slope routes” to Stanford University Libraries. My name is Zoe Dilles and I manage the paper map collections at Branner Earth Sciences Library — I have also cc’ed Evan Thornberry, head of the David Rumsey Map Center — and I think your map would be a great fit for Branner's collections. We have a robust collection of Lunar and Martian printed maps and globes, but this is an area that I actively collect in due to the research happening here in Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability. Do you have other print maps on offer, either as donations or for purchase? Please let me know as I would be interested.
I read a little more about your maps including the planetary nature of your work and Reloquence's interest in space resource exploration here: https://www.alignable.com/murrells-inlet-sc/reloquence
Here’s how the donation process works; you would mail the materials to me using the address below. Once I physically receive the materials, I will complete a deed of gift that will be digitally signed by our University Librarian and then sent to you for digital signature. Does that work for you?
David Rumsey has amassed (and is actively collecting) maps that he makes available on his personal website (davidrumsey.com); this is a great free resource with high-resolution scans of maps that has been in use worldwide since he started it in the 1990s. He is also a donor for the David Rumsey Map Center, founded nearly 10 years ago and, which is a branch of Stanford University Libraries. He is in the process of donating his entire collection (print & digital) to Stanford. We make our collections available using our library infrastructure: SeachWorks (our library catalog), the Stanford Digital Repository (for digital objects), and EarthWorks (for geospatial data and scanned maps).
