LibGuides: Surveying: Surveying

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This page provides tips for choosing the best resources to do your surveying research.

Featured Library Resource

Practical Boundary Surveying by Paul Gay
Call Number: 526.9 GAY-P 2015
ISBN: 9783319071572
Publication Date: 2015
Mapping the Nation: history and cartography in nineteenth-century America by Susan Schulten
Call Number: 526.90973 SCHULTE 2013
ISBN: 9780226103969
Publication Date: 2013-09-11
In Mapping the Nation, Susan Schulten charts how maps of epidemic disease, slavery, census statistics, the environment, and the past demonstrated the analytical potential of cartography, and in the process transformed the very meaning of a map. Today, statistical and thematic maps are so ubiquitous that we take for granted that data will be arranged cartographically. Whether for urban planning, public health, marketing, or political strategy, maps have become everyday tools of social organization, governance, and economics.

Resources for Your Surveying Studies

How To Find the Information You Need.

Broad Searches If you want to see large amounts of information - books, journal articles, DVDs and more - and you don’t mind looking at a few things that you might not need, use RTC's OneSearch.

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Focused Searches When you know exactly what you need.

If you need journal articles, click on the Articles tab, and learn about ProQuest, Gale Academic OneFile, and other databases.
If you need books, click on the Books tab, and learn how to find books in the RTC Library Catalog, or eBooks in RTC databases.
If you need web resources, click on the Web Sites tab. This page lists helpful web sites on many surveying topics.

Not Finding What You Want?

Try another way of describing your topic. Instead of "car" try "automobile". Instead of "movie" try "motion picture".

Think about the age of the material you need.
- If you are researching something that is a established fact, try books or encyclopedias (found in the RTC Library Catalog), or eBooks (found in Credo Reference or the EBSCO Community College eBook Collection through the RTC Library Database page). Examples of established facts include "historic maps", or "development of the surveyor's".
- If you are researching something new, like "trends in extraterrestrial mapping", try journal and newspaper articles (found in ProQuest on the database page.)

Need More Help?

If you're not sure what you need, or how to begin, come in to the RTC Library, call us at (425) 235-2331, or email us at librarian@RTC.edu. If it's after hours, try our reference chat service AskWA. We'll be glad to help!