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New Accessions Arriving at Field Records
Materials arrive from across the country to be accessioned and processed at the Denver Library, Field Records Collection. Geologic Discipline scientists are encouraged to deposit their project materials and with the Field Records Collection. Materials in the collection are managed as Federal records...
Location: Denver, CO, USA
Compact Storage
After a detailed inventory is completed and published on the web, processed materials are stored in compact shelving in the Field Records Collection. Collections are organized by scientist and project....
Location: Denver, CO, USA
On File at the Field Records Collection
The Field Records Collection in Denver houses materials generated from nearly 130 years of scientific investigations by more than 1200 scientists. The Denver Library, Field Records Collection includes approximately 24,000 notebooks (pictured) and files, 6000 map groups, and 80,000 aerial photographs...
Location: Denver, CO, USA
Researching Historical Collections
The Field Records Library provides reference and research assistance to USGS scientists and staff, as well as to a wide range of researchers from other Federal and State agencies, and the general public. Subject matter of interest ranges from geology, history of the USGS, and history of the earth sc...
Location: Denver, CO, USA
From Card Catalog to Website
Organization and inventorying of the collection is an ongoing project. The Denver Library is converting card catalog records and inventory documents into a web accessible database in which inventories may be searched by keyword or browsed by scientist. The new website went live for USGS and public u...
Location: Denver, CO, USA
Field Notes
The Field Records Collection has many materials types including: field notebooks, sketches, annotated maps, unpublished manuscripts, plane-table sheets, annotated aerial photographs, sample analysis, stratigraphic columns, lithologic logs, and geologic cross sections. Materials in the Field Records ...
Location: Denver, CO, USA
Records Preservation
Older materials and recently arrived items in the Field Records Collection are in various states of preservation and documentation. In the current reorganization project, items are inventoried for content, transferred to archival storage containers, and archived as shelf items (notebooks and file fo...
Location: Denver, CO, USA
Central Region Library Field Records Collection
The USGS Denver Library, Field Records Collection is an archive of unpublished field notes, maps, correspondence, manuscripts, analysis reports, and other data created or collected by USGS Geologic Discipline scientists during field studies and other project work. Materials in the collection represe...
Location: Denver, CO, USA
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