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Subject:        Appreciation for Vi Moorhouse, Retired GPO Map Cataloger
Date:   Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:01:20 -0400
From:   John A Stevenson <[log in to unmask]>
Organization:   University of Delaware
To:     MAPS-L <[log in to unmask]>


Administrative Notes' July 15/Aug. 15, 2007 issue notes the retirement
of Vi Moorhouse, a GPO Map Cataloger honored by ALA MAGERT in 1998.
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/pubs/adnotes/ad7_8_1507.html#8

It's nice to see GPO acknowledging the work of someone whose efforts
have had such an impact on so many libraries. The article states that
she "contributed well over 100,000 bibliographic records to the Catalog
of United States Government Publications and initiated many geographic
name authority records in the Library of Congress authority database,
providing a deep contribution to the field of geophysical data." Upon
receiving her MAGERT award, Vi indicated that she was just glad that
she'd been able to work with all the maps.

Always thoughtful of the end user, Vi once explained how she had devised
SuDocs classification numbers for a map series showing various
environmental features so that they could be filed, by state, in
meaningful layers. A paper GIS in the map drawer. What could be more
helpful?
--
John A. Stevenson
Coordinator, Government Documents and Maps Processing Unit
University of Delaware Library
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