Digital Map Library
Location
Institute of Geography & Earth Sciences
Room C17 (Tower), Llandinam Building
Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth
Curator:
Contact email: ats@aber.ac.uk
About The Collection
The Digital Map Library opened in 2011 and provides individual work stations for students to access digital mapping resources such as Digimap and Getmapping. Digimap provides full UK coverage of Ordnance Survey maps, British Geological Survey maps and Ordnance Survey historic maps. Getmapping provides high resolution aerial photography & infra red imagery of the UK. There is also an evolving digital database of UK and world maps available to IGES students & staff. All workstations contain GIS software to help display & manipulate these data sets.
The map library also holds a large collection of paper maps, particularly B.G.S geology maps of the UK and O.S maps of various scale & age. There are also a number of maps in storage of various parts of the world.
The paper map collection originated from the former Geography Department founded in 1917-18, but most items were acquired when the department move to the Penglais Campus in 1965. At it’s peak, the collection contained over 80,000 maps and around 500 atlases and reference works. Following the creation of the Digital Map Library, a number of maps were donated to the National Library in Aberystwyth.
Library Opening Hours
Term-time: Monday to Thursday, 8.30am - 4.45pm
Friday, 8.30am - 3.45pm
Vacation: Opening hours as for term time though please confirm with curator beforehand.