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Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 12:20:32 -0400 (AST)
From: James Boxall <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: what is cartography and CP#38....
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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)
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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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