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Subject:        Re: NACIS Cartography Award
Date:   Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:42:17 -0600
From:   Nat Case <[log in to unmask]>
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To:     Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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Thanks, Angie, you all were next on my list. We absolutely look forward
to nominations from the library world, and I hope librarians will spread
the word among their geographer/cartographer patrons!

Nat Case

On 1/28/13 1:39 PM, Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library,
UW Milwaukee wrote:
> I saw this on facebook and thought I'd pass it along ... I think we map
> librarians are in a good position to recognize good cartography.
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> The Corlis Benefideo Award for Imaginative Cartography:
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> This award recognizes imaginative cartography. Cartography is often seen
> by the public as work opposed to imagination, grounded entirely in
> established fact. While this devotion to reflecting what is forms the
> heart of cartographic thinking, cartographers and artists who use maps
> as a basis for their work can (and do) take that grounding in fact and
> use it to venture into the world of the possible. Some explore real
> places from perspectives that allow us to see it fresh and full of
> possibility, and some take our established traditions of mapmaking, and
> indeed take fully-constructed maps themselves, and turn them on their
> heads to make us see ourselves anew. This award is to recognize this
> work and the perspective it brings to the field of cartography, and the
> contributions it makes to the world as a whole.
>
> Nominations are due March 15. Members and non-members of NACIS are
> eligible to nominate.
>
> http://nacis.org/index.cfm?x=53
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> Sent by Angie
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