(rshsdepot) OPLIN Announcement: Ohio Sanborn Maps now online

[Andy Ingraham Dwyer <adwyer_@_io.com>]

My wife, public librarian, sugar mama (now that I am a stay-at-home dad),
and all around great woman, informs me that the Ohio Public Library
Information Network has just recently made available *online* the
digitized Sanborn Maps for the state of Ohio!  They are licensed for use
by Ohio Citizens, and available online now.  Just keep your library card
-From any Ohio public library handy, you'll need it to get in.

And she tells me that "2321 records include the word 'Depot'!".


- -Andy


- -----Original Message-----

OPLIN is pleased to announce that "Digital Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps" is
now live. It is also included in  OPLIN Research Database Remote Access.
Public libraries that wish to link directly to the product from their own
Web site may do so by linking to:

http://oplin.lib.oh.us/products/SanbornMaps/index.cfm

The Ohio Sanborn map collection is a joint project of OPLIN and OhioLINK.
OPLIN licensed the maps on behalf of Ohio libraries, and OhioLINK made them
part of its Digital Media Center, providing superior searching and display
capabilities. Our license is perpetual and covers not only public and
academic libraries but the school libraries as well.

Please look at the quick, short and long descriptions on the OPLIN web site
at OPLIN Research Databases:

http://www.oplin.lib.oh.us/dsp_ResearchDatabases.cfm

The Full Description version of the abstract on the OPLIN Web site, for
now, is as follows:

"The Digital Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps collection provides a searchable
interface for locating historical Maps of Ohio towns and cities. These maps
were digitized from microfilm copies by Chadwyck-Healey, a Bell & Howell
Information and Learning company. The searchable database is a joint project
of OPLIN and OhioLINK. 

-From 1876 to 1970, the Sanborn Insurance Company created more than 40,035
maps of Ohio towns and cities. Originally used for fire insurance records,
these detailed maps identify individual buildings on each block. Detailed
information on the maps includes a given building's occupant status (e.g.,
hotel or state capitol), the building's height, and building's street
address among other things. To date, Ohio's historians, urban geographers
and archaeologists, and researchers in architecture and ethnic studies have
used the printed maps, which are available in printed form in some Ohio
libraries."

A press release and a brief factsheet will follow in the next day or so.


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The Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN)
Carol Lynn Roddy
Executive Director

Voice (614) 728-5252   FAX (614) 728-5256
1321 Arthur E. Adams Drive, 1st Floor
Columbus, OH  43221 

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