Abstract

At the end of World War II, United States Army officers located large troves of maps in Germany and Japan. These materials were shipped back to the United States and deposited with the Army Map Service (AMS). The AMS created a repository service to distribute the captured maps to libraries across the United States eventually sending them to a subset of thirty-five geographically dispersed institutions. While numerous libraries processed these materials, many did not, including the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who made the decision to donate their maps to Stanford University for cataloging and scanning. The majority of the maps were duplicative, but twenty percent of the corpus were either new sets or missing sheets from existing sets. Analyzing these collections allows librarians and scholars to understand the scope of the mapping carried out by the Germans and Japanese prior to and during the war. It also provides a framework to decide if a library should allocate processing, cataloging, and digitization resources for such unprocessed collections.

摘要

二战结束时，美国陆军军官在德国和日本找到了大量地图。这些材料被运回美国并存放在陆军地图服务 (AMS) 中。AMS 创建了一个存储库服务，将捕获的地图分发到美国各地的图书馆，最终将它们发送到 35 个地理上分散的机构的子集。虽然许多图书馆处理了这些材料，但许多图书馆没有处理，包括田纳西大学诺克斯维尔分校，他们决定将他们的地图捐赠给斯坦福大学进行编目和扫描。大多数地图都是重复的，但 20% 的语料库要么是新集，要么是现有集的缺失表。分析这些馆藏可以让图书馆员和学者了解德国人和日本人在战前和战期间进行的地图绘制的范围。它还提供了一个框架来决定图书馆是否应该为此类未处理的馆藏分配处理、编目和数字化资源。