David Rumsey Receives G&M Honors Award

The Special Libraries Association, Geography & Map Division presented
David Rumsey with the division's Honors Award for his outstanding
contribution to the fields of geography, cartography and map
librarianship.  Via the David Rumsey Collection
(http://www.davidrumsey.com), map users around the world now share
access to a unique private collection of early maps and atlases. The
G&M Division honors David Rumsey's for his innovative experimentation
with historical map images and modern geospatial data; for his support
and development of map image publishing software;and for his dedication
to the precise bibliographic control of individual map images.  David
Rumsey truly shares the spirt and commitment of map librarians in
making cartographic information widely assessable.

The award was presented to Mr. Rumsey on June 10, 2002 at the Special
Libraries Association conference in Los Angeles.

 Jim Gillispie
Jim Gillispie
Head, Government Publications/Maps/Law Library
Eisenhower Library
Johns Hopkins University

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