Quick Start: Serial Set Maps   Tags: congressional, maps, quick start guides, serial set  

The Serial Set Maps collection is a collection of more than 70,000 maps printed as part of the Congressional Serial Set.  With the High-Resolution Maps Module, more than 50 percent of these are scanned at high resolution enabling users to see and download the smallest details on the map.  The rest of the maps are mostly outline maps and would not benefit from being scanned at high resolution.  

Several Executive Branch agencies are the most prolific publishers of the maps including the Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Geological Survey 

For more information on the Serial Set maps, see the YouTube video.

Users with the U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection who do not have access to the High-Resolution Map Module will also see the document type on the Advanced Search tab. 

To check to see if your institution subscribes to the module, check this link to see if the thumbnail image shows up near the bottom of the page.  If you see the thumbnail, you have the module.  If you don't see the thumbnail, the maps are in the volume that is linked to from the record, however they do not have all of the functionality shown on the Searching the Maps page of this guide.

Users can search for Serial Set Maps through the Advanced Search tab. 

Using the Advanced Search menu allows users to search within specific publication types. 

The mouseover shows details of your institutional subscriptions.