美国国会图书馆地图收藏服务的调查研究

Research on Map Collecting and Service of Library of Congress

由于地图在国家的经济、国防、文化、教育等各方面有着十分重要的作用,世界上许多重要的图书馆,尤其是国家级图书馆,都非常重视对地图的收藏。美国国会图书馆极其重视对地图资料的收藏与服务,在采、编、藏、阅及地图数字化等各方面都取得了非凡的成绩。地图作为图书馆的一种特色藏品,其收藏与服务实际上是一个综合的系统工程。

Because the map plays a very important role in the country＇s economy,defense,culture,education and other fields,many libraries in the world attach great importance to the map collection,especially national libraries.The Library of Congress places emphasis on the map collection and service,including acquisition,cataloging,collection management,reading services and map digitization,and has achieved extraordinary results.As a special material,the collection and service of maps is actually comprehensive engineering in the library.