Go to the York University Library home page at. In the OMNI Search box enter a place name and/or topic you would like to search. In this example, Toronto is the place and street is the topic.
Your search result in a list of all of the resources on your topic. To select for scanned (digital maps), go the left side of your search results. Under Availability, select Available Online. Under Resource Type, click on Show More, and select Maps. At the bottom, click on Apply Filters.
Your search results is a list of scanned maps from York University Libraries. From the list, click on the map title that is of interest to you.
You have now retrieved the full description for the map. To access the scan of the map, under View Online, click on View Full Text. This will open the map in York University Digital Library.
You have now opened the map in York University Digital Library.
Go to the York University Digital Library website at https://digital.library.yorku.ca/. In the search box in the top right corner, enter the topic of the map. Click on the search button or press enter on your keyboard. In this example we are searching for transit maps published prior to 1950.
You will retrieve a list of results with all of the digital objects in York University Digital Library about transit. In this example, there are 150 objects in our collection about this topic.
To narrow your search to a scanned maps, go the left side of the results screen, scroll down and under Resource Format, click on Cartographic. This will retrieve all of the scanned maps on your topic in our collection.
This will retrieve the list of scanned maps on the topic. From the list of the results, you can narrow it down by date and/or period. Using the sliding date bar you can narrow it down to maps published prior to 1950. You now have short list of maps in YUDL about transit published prior to 1950.
Click the map title you are interested in to see the full record.
