i sure am!! anything that saves me time when i'm cataloging is most welcome, and i've found that getting bounding-box coordinates and then entering them is one of the most time-consuming parts of cm cataloging.

mary

Colleen R. Cahill wrote:

>Due to the kindness of David Cobb, Phil Hoehn and Mary Larsgaard, there is >an Excel table with decimal coordinates for every US county. This 411MB >file is available for download at ftp://ftp.loc.gov/pub/gmdndl/. Please >save the file before opening it so to put less stress on our server. Any >questions on the data will have to go back to Mary. > >I am also going to work on converting this data to the format used in the >MARC 034 field. If I succeed, is anyone else interested in this? > >Colleen > Colleen R. Cahill | [log in to unmask] > Digital Production Coordinator | (202)707-8540 > & Recommending Officer for | FAX (202)707-8531 > Science Fiction & Fantasy | Library of Congress >These opinions are mine, Mine, Mine! | Washington, DC 20540-4652 > >