THE MAP LIBRARY DIVISION AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE MAP BRANCH.

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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 1998
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: February 28, 1948
• Content Type: MEMO

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'4EMORANDUM TO, Assistamit Directtor
Reports and Ratimates
FROM: Chief, Hap hramh
SUJECT:
26 Feb
The Map Library Teivision as an integral eart or
the Wap Branch.
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1. Reference is mud* to the rot ert dated 2C Jul 1947, or
joint surve b.
in 14.-11oh it
was recommended that all three pert's of the Map Drench be treneferrel
a unit to the DIA. r,11.1o.reoomendation stemmed from the feet that
az a result of their revtew of this Atp
rod that the Branch formee ar operating
and that any Wirer040.0 of unified control end responsibility for
ivities of the Breath would result it detreesed efficiency.
tommendetien elan placed the Map 3ranch within ORE, where it
belongs because of its responsibilities. ..ter oartographit revenreh,
evaluations* nap intelligent* it dies, the 000rditotion If inte11i.7ense
production and geographle research
2. There have beeti indieations* both from the Reference Centhr
and from the Mismageaent tranth, A I X, that serious coneideretdoe
be given to the trater *f the map reforenoct serviees cf the Ilranoh
to this administrative control of the Referent, Ceister. There *re
large number of very resl argumeate for this retention of the Map
Library Division as part of the unified map reoillty reprepeneee b'
the proiant Vsp Bran",
S. There is consiaerabie precedents for having the Litrery
an integral unit of ths, tap Braaab.
a. Tho Departrent of State, prior to the formstio
Map Division, maieainiel t. map library and reference
of geographiesil materials within its Officio at the Cea
and later as a BrarCh within its Division or Seograpny
tography. All mape, atlases, and related publieetione
by the Department wire forterded to the Nap librery re
and for lean.
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olleetion
Tapher
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received
retentien
b. The Offiee or Strategic Services, durieg the ell-, hed a
large hap Division whith included the Map Library of the oSe,
Administretive InstrAotions issued by the 03S- elearly Acted ';hrt.t
the Map Library of the Islip Division was comeletely sepArct4 frart
any other reference lerviee within that organizetion.
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a. The Departaent of State its MAp Divlaion
in 1943o pleted the eembised f ihrarieo a the
to the OSE, eled the ru withi Librar,y. briene
vision. The lip Wald= Inkri allotted funde for thii
Sr as s.is tiad other geographical referencetin
s collection. '
do The Imp Likrery, ns boon I pod
during the peat vie :fears through the obins4 efforts of :LEV
geographers mho were attached to the of toe Ot: 4n,
to the Livisies of OeograOhe and Cartography in the Deoartmen,.
Stets. The outriaL edy nr intelligence end refereace tttsrinl
included in. the solleetion of the. lap LibraryAeas developed through
~era selection end professional assistemee.by the steffe of
these Divisiens. tnintenance and utilisatimehas been Everted, to
large part, to therequirerents of primary mep users -o!* the govern'.
vont agencies. The present effective **relate performed by the Map
Libraertdvisien be:Vs resulted from .its position Si an integral
operating unit of the Sap Oran& and, it* predecessors.
do There sr. eerteio major eery* in *which the lip Librery !.1.-v5ion
is closely integrated ittl the total operation of the Map Prennt.
a. The dap Bremoho mod its predecessors, here dirlote tie
.foreiga prosorement of maps and related materials for earv yv:ro
through the feeilities offered by the Foreign Service Tod. durtv.
the oar, by traiaec lep procurement officers essigned thforc.0
countries by the OM A, little over one year ago the lap Preach
Initiated a 000rditated foreign procurement program foe colleetine
naps and releted aeterials and nap intelligelsoseo not oily for the
Department of Stat* but alit for other interested twelve. laic
program is guided ty the joint planning of the staffs of the earef
Divisions of the Draleho eapported by the 000peration of agssolec
represented 41 the presently operating latereigeney Mao Prooul'emeert
Coordimatioa Committee. This program is therifOre alAle_nALL activity
in "IMO all three Division* participate. Ti would Si's-WE-Ow-11y
difficult to properly guide this foreign preeuremeat program Lf the
participatieg stafFs of the three Uvisions 'ere not uader a le;lo
admimistretiee heat-.
b. The Alp Litrery collection forms the rorktng fUes
Intelligens* mad Cartogropkir Arista's, Became. (51' the eoe1 inx
aster of map researdho extensive files are required isnd , would
impossible, fret a practleal point of vi*, to main:ain a 31ante
working files for those Divisions separate from the Mil Library col-
lection.
e. The requirements of the Yap Intelligence an
Divisions refleet the needs of the other prinery map
Departments represented on the IAC. It is proper therefore,
the personnel of thee. Divisions advise the lap Library rivist.
regarding priorities be be eonsidered In the rooesstn fvartinin
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de The lap int?fligezte, Division furnishes ems ial assr,st-
&nee to the !lap Litrry staff in evaluating sled sole ng amp
materials requestee or specifio purpoSes where proteslacnal
knowledge of the content in adequacy *f information iv; required.
os Is the aggtegate, maw other slays in whilst the tap -ibrary
Divisioa is interlooked with the rest of the Irandh for. aha:,or
justifieation for iho unity of the ft branch, 5ome c thea. leter-
dependencies are boiofly listed below
(1) Frequent interchange of meet eusnt thton*atian
relating t3 nap publishing agenoies and new oonteets in ti,:e
napping Maid between the staffs of the !lap Libra!, and lap
Iitolligonee ,iriaionse
(2) In performint its function of iistributinE naps
produoed hy the Cartography Division, the Map Library Diva-
*ion asks advise from tha staff of the Map Intellionee
Division reiArdllac the Advisability of requesting reruns
of maps il stook slid of requesting revisions of these
maps au tlo basis of son information,'
(5) Tho i1a3 Library requests the hap Int.Uig,ence
sion to review all maps produced by the (rtogrsphy Division
so that appropriate comments may be entered in th, referetce
files for use in answering inquiries.
(4) Generally the maps requested of he Map Library
D vision by the Cartography Division are evaluated try the
Map Intefligsna Diviatort before they are used ae 't:ftse
materiels.
(6) The Map Library Division ees&s the advioo Of the
staff of the hap Iatollignnoo vsluhting it
holdings it terwe of the intelligence n.eCs of the lavernsente
(4) fko Sop Library Division, dnere posnitle, adjusts
its cataloging program the priority n,cis of the Map
Intelligence Division
?he lap tatollittheo Div lust. ?s
held by the Map, Library Division and recealends that obsolt3te
series be eliaimated fres the eollection by transfer to other
more appropriate depesiteries4
(0) Tito staff or the hap hots
personae' of thp Map Library in a
diffieult problems of interpretation
aortal* maps?
vision assist;;
of the are
in owtalogin',
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? S, The unity of the Mhp Branch, as new owlet tuted, iAs parAl
in other government agencies. This unity has been developed throngh
experience.
a. The Arny terviou constitutes the map facility for the
Department of the Arley. It is oomposed of a map library eiti- its
referenoe collectifm, ? nap researah organisation, anr a mape!aaking
group, all under tile administrative ?antral of the Ooppaanding
Officer of the Ar mr Map Service. It ia well?known, at cour44,
that there are dookeent and book reference facilities In other
parts of the Department mblth are not related organisationally
to the facilities in the trmy Map Service.
b. The Aeronaetical Chart Service it the nap faoiAty for
the Departaemt of tho Air Force. It is oomprised of a map IlLrery
and map research service, and photogroanetry and chart-making
groups, This operating instil), ie under the adninistrvive control
of the Commanding Offioer of the Asromautical Chart Servioe.
Th. ? . Coast And Cloodetio Survey, in ite (hart
has a library of maps and related teehnieml publicaticvo, a goo-
detio and map resemreh groupc end a complete nap.makinc unit*
inciuding it* own roprodmetion pleat. All of theee are under me
administrative heed. thAi Chief of the Chart Division.
d. The ;:.S, Sorlogioal Eurvep has a speoialised bolk amd lap
library. several research units in different fields of fieology
and topographic and -a map.making unit and reproduction plant. NII
under the adainistrative control of the Director of the Survey.
Operatione in the instances described.above vary in magnitude
but it is *leer that sack Department has reeogniced the need for unified
ematrel of their map library, map reseerch *ad map*making faoilities
within their organisations.
S. I ma convinced that a transfer of the Vep Library D sit)* to
the Reference Center could greatly handicap the oenstructive work nt the
three staffs elthit the Mikp Slim* and would decrease the efteetivosses
of the nap referent* servees noaravallable to the CIA and ether cov*rn,
meat agencies. Amr advaistase that aight accrue free such s trahcror,
and I frankly fail to eeeiany advantage could be greatly out-aeiched
'in sir opinion by the very serious diead:aatagee that would reault from
suet aetion. the day?to-dmy opereting relationships between the Nap
Library Divide* and the Ifeferenee Colter could mot he handiolyped by
'control of the Map Librarp Division remaining at the Map BrAnsh.
Th
personnel of ether rapping iTenoism of the Government proprociAe the
unity of the Map 3ranoh 144 are sympathetic tewerd te prof;rau. rho
iaportant advances ria44 by the Mep *ranch in developing effes4ive ootnrd,.
ination among the map library cervices of the Government might von to
nullified if the present eontrol of the Map Librery Division ler* ohanged.
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