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Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:28:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Richard Pinnell <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: what is cartography and CP#38....
Sender: Richard Pinnell <[log in to unmask]>



Hi James
The questions that are appended relate to cartography not map
lib*....I hope the "and
others" are career or academic cartographers.  I see a major distinction
between the work of cartographers and map lib'ns/carto archivists.
  Richard

On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, James Boxall wrote:

> ok....this is funny...
> just after i sent the message about CP #38...
> i got the following sent to me...as i've been asked
> to participate in a project that will videotape me (and others)
> as we navigate our way through these questions :-)
> interesting the types of things we do in map libs :-)
>
>
> :-)
>
> James Boxall
> Curator/Head
> Map and Geospatial Information Collection
> Killam Library
> Dalhousie University
> Halifax, Nova Scotia
> Canada   B3H 4H8
> 902-494-3757 (tel)
> 902-494-2062 (fax)
> [log in to unmask]
> magic.library.dal.ca
>
> Immediate Past-President, Association of Canadian
> Map Libraries and Archives (ACMLA)     www.acmla.org
>
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>
> Hello,
>
> Thank you very much for agreeing to be
> interviewed on camera.
>
> Included in this note, at the bottom of the
> page, are the questions we will be asking you
> for the interview.  We will be cutting and
> pasting to suit the content text in the
> website module on academics and careers in
> cartography.
>
> We also have a release that allows us to a)
> film you, and b) further use your images on
> the "All About Maps" website and potential
> CD-ROM version of the website.  We will bring
> it to the interview.
>
>
> Interview Questions.
>
>
> 1. What is cartography?
>
> 2. What kinds of cartography are there?
>
> 3. What kinds of people are cartographers?
>
> 4. What skills do cartographers have?
>
> 5. What kinds of subjects do cartographers
> take in school? (What subjects did you take?)
>
> 6. Where do you go to become a cartographer?
> (Where did you go?)
>
> 7. What kind of technologies do cartographers
> use?
>
> 8. Why do we need cartographers?
>
> 9. Who employs cartographers?  What
> industries? What kinds of jobs are they
> employed for?
>
> 10. What do you think is the future of
> cartography, where is it going?  How can
> students today best prepare for it?
>
> 11. Are people born cartographers?
>
>
>
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