Volume 13, Number 2: April/May 2007

Page 2 – The Vice Provost for University Libraries reflects upon the strides made in the last year. Page 3 - Ornithologist David Sibley’s Edwin Way Teale lecture is featured. Page 5 - In a guest column on diversity issues, Professor Hedley Freake examines what UConn is doing to engender cultural understanding in students. Page 6 - Staff anniversaries and awards. Page 7 - Finding articles, images, and music easier with new database locator.

Developing a Geographic Information System Index for Historical Aerial Photographs

This paper describes the creation of a GIS database index to the collection of historical aerial photographs of Connecticut housed in the Map and Geographic Information Center in the Homer Babbidge Library at the University of Connecticut. The index allows patrons to search for scanned aerial photograph images for a specific location across multiple years and to retrieve digital scans from the Library server. Procedures for scanning and georeferencing the images, preparing metadata for the images, and creating the GIS database index are described.