Map Room
ACCESS
Staff, and postgraduate and Honours students have a key which gives
access to the Map Room–Room 349.
Visitors may arrange access at the 4th floor office.
After 6 pm unless someone else is working in the room you should
turn out the lights and lock the door.
MAPS
The collection consists mostly of Australian maps with a strong
geological emphasis. Maps are filed within their country or region.
Australian maps are further divided by state or territory, map type,
and scale. They are filed in alphabetical order within each drawer.
There are duplicate copies of some popular maps. Australian map
indexes are held in the top green drawer to your left under the
windows as you come in the door. Other index maps are displayed
on the walls
Some maps are old and/or extremely fragile. Please take care with
them all.
If you can't find what you need in our collection, try The University of Melbourne Library's Map Collection, which is one of the largest such collections in Australia. The Map Collection is located on level 4 of the Education Resource Centre (ERC) Library - campus map (Melway 571 J12, building 171. The scope of the Map Collection is worldwide, with particular emphasis on Melbourne, Victoria and Australia, and includes all photos and satellite imagery. Computers with GIS and graphics software, scanners (A3 and A4), CD burners, laser printers (colour and b+w), photocopiers (up to A0) and a light table are also available.
The Library’s Map Section web site is at:
http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/maps/
For further information on the Map Collection, contact the Map Collection Staff on ph. 8344 8484 or e-mail maps-info@unimelb.edu.au.
Procedure for Borrowing a Map from the Earth Sciences Map Room
Either enter the details on the white board or fill in a Map Loan Slip, located on the top of the green drawers.
If the map is labelled with a copy number please fill this in on
the slip. On return the map must be placed in the green
Map Returns drawer. A staff member will be regularly returning
each map to its correct place and removing loan details from the
record.
Maps may be borrowed for up to FOUR WEEKS. If you need a
map for longer than that, you must make some other arrangement e.g.
if a student, talk to your supervisor about buying your own copy.
The map might then be laminated free of charge if you undertake
to donate it to the Map Room collection when your project is finished.
Other facilities
The Map Room houses a photocopier, paper trimmers and an A1-size
cutting mat.
1m-long straight-edges are available for ruling, measuring and
trimming against. A parallel rule, french curves, map weights, 380mm
rulers, scissors, a cutting knife, a hole punch, a stapler, sticky
and masking tapes, a roll of brown wrapping paper, and a glue stick
are also available .
Two large tables are provided for laying out and working on maps
and posters.
Store Room–Room 350
This inner room is used to store some less-used maps, including
geological Quarter Sheets and Parish Plans of Victoria, mounted
wall maps, a small air photo collection, and some other equipment.
If you do not have a key, you can arrange access through the 4th
floor office.
An A3 light table for sorting 35mm slides or other uses is available,
and a spiral binding machine; please provide your own covers (available
from Bullwinkles).
A number of air photographs from past projects are held in the
locked grey 2-door cabinet. See the 4th Floor Office for access.
Note: if you are a student and need to order new air photos for
your project, first discuss it with your supervisor, check the Map
Room notice board information regarding ordering and costs, and
if necessary see Bernie Joyce (Room 305).
The Times Atlas of the World, The Reader’s Digest Atlas of
Australia and a Melway are held in Room 350. These are for reference
only.
Geological explanatory notes are held in the bottom 3 drawers of
the 4-drawer filing cabinet. These are generally duplicates of a
more extensive collection held in our library (Rooms 302-304).
A gazetteer (an index book of features on maps) for Australia,
and another for Victoria, are held in the second drawer of the 4-drawer
filing cabinet, along with assorted other publications including
a dictionary and drafting technique manuals. The Australian Gazetteer
includes all features shown on 1:250,000 scale maps (published 1975),
the Victorian Gazetteer (published in 1983) shows features on metric
maps. The gazetteers give feature type, latitude & longitude,
map reference, and state; the Victorian one also includes AMG zone
and grid references.
LAMINATING
Laminating is done by arrangement with the office (Room 430).
MAP ROOM ETIQUETTE
Please tidy up after you have finished. Remove tape from cutting
mats, put trimmings into the bins, and sort paper into the marked
recycling bin. Remove your personal papers and possessions. If you
are the last in the Map Room at night, turn off the lights and make
sure the door locks behind you.
Bernie Joyce
Room 305
Telephone: 0427 330 117
email: ebj@unimelb.edu.au
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