Library News: Fenwick Renovation, 3B & 3C

Fenwick Library Floor 3B and 3C will be renovated this summer. The time line is May 22-Sept.1. Collections that are affected are: History, Geography, Anthropology, and Recreation on floor 3B (LC Call Numbers range from F 2100 to HB 3808) and Economics, Business, Sociology, Social Work, and ICAR on floor 3C. If you need books on this floor for the Summer, you better check them out "Now" or before May 15. If the titles needed are not accessible this summer, library staff will take extra measures to obtain books through consortium library service (CLS) or interlibray loan service (ILL).

Aerial Imagery for European Cities

If you want to see aerial images of cities in Europe, click on "Aerial Photos" to the Mappy Home Page for 63 cities in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and Belgium.

NASA's Worldwind Application

is another interactive 3D application for maps and images of Earth. Including are MSN's Virtual Earth Imagery, Imagery of Venus, and National Parks, etc. The good thing is that you can download the images. It's available at http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/download.html

Online Historical Maps

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection recently added more than 1000 new digitized map. The direct link to this is at http://www.davidrumsey.com/recentadditions.html

Display GIS Data on Google Earth

If you want to display your existing GIS data on Google Earth, please see this wonderful guide provided by Brian Flood: Getting Data into Google Earth Using Arc2Earth
Declan Butler has also displayed his Avian Flu data using Google Earth. Visit the site at http://declanbutler.info/Flumaps1/avianflu.html