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Located in the Davidson Library, the Map & Imagery Laboratory (MIL) contains maps, aerial photographs and other types of remote sensing data, and GIS data from around the globe. It is the largest such collection in any academic library. MIL serves the academic and research needs of the University of California, the state university system, business, industry, federal and state government, and other domestic and foreign educational institutions.

Services

Collections

MIL Personnel

Since its opening in 1979, MIL has become a primary information source for regional, national and global academic research and has hosted many symposia and seminars. Previous major projects have advanced the interdisciplinary use of spatial data and provided technologies for integrating diverse information formats.

To make arrangements for specialized services, instruction, tours or workshops please contact the Map and Imagery Lab: (805) 893-2779 or email: milrefdesk@library.ucsb.edu

Digital Preservation (NGDA)

Concerned that millions of nationally important digital information resources are in danger of being lost or corrupted, the Library of Congress has formed The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). As partners in the project the university libraries of UCSB and Stanford are leading the formation of the National Geospatial Digital Archive (NGDA), a collecting network for the archiving of geospatial images and data.

MIL's portion of the NGDA is complete, and we are currently designing methods to provide public access to the archive and to add additional data to the archive.

Alexandria Digital Library

Starting in the 1990s, the Alexandria Digital Library offered some of the first online access to collections of geographically referenced materials. The library, headquartered at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was created through a series of grants to the Davidson Library's Map and Imagery Lab and other UCSB departments. Several pieces of the ADL are still in daily use

• About ADL
• ADL homepage
• Globetrotter collections
  • DRGs, DOQQs, Maya Forest data
• ADL Research
• Airphoto search engine. (lat-long tool) MIL-restricted
• Additional ADL collections Coming Soon
  
  

The MIL is a closed-stack collection; most MIL materials do not circulate. Fees for access to the imagery and digital data collection are charged to those persons not performing University of California related research. Copyright © 2010 University of California Regents; All Rights Reserved.