It also has an Epson Twain scanner that allows users to create digital images of maps. These can be saved as files or printed on an 11 x 17 inch color printer. It is also possible to make arrangements to have photographic copies made or to bring one's own camera. Cartographic Materials Elsewhere at the University of Chicago Library Atlases. The Map Collection houses only about a quarter of the atlases at the University of Chicago Library.
Most reading rooms have their own small atlas collections.
In addition, Crerar Library holds many science atlases. Hundreds of additional atlases are kept in the Regenstein stacks, including most of the Library's U.S. and Canadian county atlases. Early atlases are kept in Special Collections. Maps in books. As in any research library, the great majority of maps are to be found neither in the form of sheet maps nor in atlases but in scholarly books, either as illustrative material in texts or else bound in or kept in pockets.