Today was my first day at work after 4 weeks holidays in Lefkada, so the news came late to me. On MAPS-L there were many commemorative messages concerning Mary. I cannot add much to the kindness and knowledge she spread throughout her career as that she gave me an opportunity (with Paige) to publish my points of view concerning mapcuratorship in American journals, that most New Years after 2000 we exchanged cards, and that I had a invigorant lunch with her and Carme Montaner while she taught cataloguing of electronic materials at the Institut Cartografic de Catalonia in Barcelona.

We also used her Map Librarianship as the basis for a course in mapcuratorship of the Dutch Cartographic Society in 1990, of which many Dutch mapcurators profited afterwards.



We will all remember what she has instigated and labored upon and those who knew her will remember her in kind thoughts.



Jan Smits

Former Mapcurator

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Verzonden: vrijdag 21 juli 2017 3:09

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Onderwerp: sad news: Mary Larsgaard



Dear Friends:



It is with a heavy heart that I write to inform you of the passing of our friend and former colleague Mary Larsgaard.  Mary took ill last winter, and passed comfortably on Tuesday morning.  Up until early June, Mary continued to enjoy lunch outings and discussions of her reading list with friends.



Mary arrived at UCSB as map librarian and assistant department head of the Map & Imagery Laboratory in 1988, and for her final year served as department head before retiring in June of 2009.



Mary literally wrote the book on map librarianship.  It is called Map Librarianship, and Mary penned all three editions: 1978, 1987, and 1998.  She was a giant in the cataloging field:  frequently writing with Penn State’s Paige Andrew, and served for decades on the Anglo-American Cataloguing Committee for Cartographic Materials.  With Paige, she was a founding editor of the Journal of Map and Geography Libraries.



Mary earned her Master of Arts in Library Science from the University of Minnesota, and holds a second MA in Geography from the University of Oregon.  Prior to coming to UCSB, she was Assistant Director for Special Collections at the Colorado School of Mines.  She also has the distinction of serving as president or chair of all three major American map library organizations: ALA’s Map & Geography Roundtable, SLA’s Geography and Map Division, and the Western Association of Map Libraries.



Mary is survived by her sister Caroline Thompson.  A memorial service is being planned for Friday, August 4 in Santa Barbara, which is Mary’s birthday.  Details to follow.



-jon

Jon Jablonski

Map & Imagery Lab

UCSB Library