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Information Sources and Services

Notes Anthropological Atlas. Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press for Anthropological Survey of India, 1993.
Forming vol. 11 of people of India national series, the maps in the atlas depict
ecological and cultural traits, languages and linguistic traits, demographic traits,
and biological traits.
(v) Tourist Atlases: Examples include: Tourist Atlas of India/by A.K. Kundu. Calcutta: National
Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organisation, 1989.
Presents a composite picture of transport network and information of interest to
tourists. There are in all 20 pates. Explanatory notes on each map are virtually
equivalent to directories. National parks and wild life sanctuaries are also depicted.
(vi) Religious Atlases: A Historical Atlas of Islam/ed. By William Brice. Leiden: Brill, 1981.
Prepared as part of the Encyclopaedia of Islam, presents information in map form up to the First
World War. Maps are arranged under nine sections. Sections 8 and 9 are devoted to India and the
Far East.

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
8. All forms of .................................. normally added to the collections of the library including
flat maps and charts, collection of maps in atlas form, terrain models, globes, etc.

9. Atlas may be a ............................... or may have been issued to accompany one or more
volumes of text.
10. The difference between a map and a globe is of ..................................

11. ............................... depict specific subjects, themes or types of development.
11.4 Gazetteers

A gazetteer is a geographical dictionary of places arranged alphabetically. It serves as a finding
list for geographical places like towns, oceans, rivers, lakes, mountains, etc., giving indication
about location usually in the form of exact latitude and longitude and a brief description such as
pronunciation, populations, are historical and socio-economic information, etc.

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Caution The ALA of Library and Information Science (1983) defines it as “a geographical
dictionary”. Rather it has been called “Dictionary of Places”.
An index to any atlas can be considered a Gazetteer but former is different from index to the
atlas.

11.4.1 Types and Examples

Gazetteers can be grouped on the basis of their scope of coverage as:

(a) International Gazetteers: Examples include:
The Statesman Year Book and World Gazetteer. 2nd London: MacMillan, 1979.
A companion volume to Statesman Year Book, “gives brief information on places of size
and importance. Some statistical tables and a glossary of 800 statistical terms are supplied”.

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