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Subject:        The Founding of ALA's Map and Geography Round Table (MAGIRT
Electronic Publication #11)
Date:   Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:08:10 +0000
From:   Weessies, Kathleen <[log in to unmask]>
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MAGIRT Electronic Publication #11 is live!
/The Founding of ALA's Map and Geography Roundtable //: Looking Back to
See the Future/. Authored by Katherine Weimer of Texas A & M University.
_http://www.ala.org/magirt/publicationsab/publicationsa_
In 1979, a group of map librarians founded the American Library
Association’s Map and Geography Round Table (MAGERT). The publication
examines the organization’s creation and early history, offers a glimpse
into the state of map librarianship at that time as well as into the
role of professional organizations of map librarians for their members,
and how these founding concepts are still relevant today.
Includes a list of the 44 members circa September 1980.
Check out the vintage photographs. Perhaps you can name the two unknown
characters participating in the 1987 5K? Has any living being ever seen
Dan Seldin’s chin?
Kathleen Weessies
Geosciences Librarian
Head, Map Library
Coordinator, Collaborative Technology Labs
Michigan State University Libraries
100 Library W308
East Lansing, MI 48824
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