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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:34:16 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)
From: Nick Millea <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Need Help! 21st Century Map Librarian Pathfinder <fwd>
Sender: Nick Millea <[log in to unmask]>



Dear Wendy,

I suggest you consider the recently-published "The Map Library in
the New Millennium", edited by Bob Parry and Chris Perkins, and
published by Library Association Publishing in London.
There is an international range of authors, covering those issues
of relevance to the map library community worldwide at the turn
of the Millennium.

A US edition is scheduled for publication by the American
Library Association in July.

Contact
        [log in to unmask]
for more details.

With best wishes,
Nick Millea


On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 15:14:47 -0400 Johnnie Sutherland
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:04:46 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Wendy Mokes <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Need Help! 21st Century Map Librarian Pathfinder
> Sender: Wendy Mokes <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
>
> Dear Mappers and Map Librarians,
>
> I am a first semester graduate student in Library
> Science at Syracuse University, earning my degree with
> the sole intent of becoming a map librarian.  As a
> final project for one of my courses, I am required to
> develop a pathfinder on the library subject of my
> choice, which is map librarianship.  The point of this
> assignment is to identify new trends or issues in map
> librarianship, and provide excellent web based sources
> as descriptors or exemplars of the 21st century map
> library.
>
> After searching the web for sites and articles
> relating to map librarianship, I am completely
> overwhelmed with the amount and diversity of
> information I've found.  I'm writing to you all in
> hopes of recieving some professional input to narrow
> my broad topic to one or two of the most important
> (and of course, interesting!) issues confronting map
> librarians.  I am not necessarily looking for
> references to websites.  Rather, I am hoping to narrow
> and deepen my understanding of the importance of
> issues in map librarianship, including but not limited
> to:
> What are the effects of Federal Depository Materials
> being offered online?
> What role should map librarians play in teaching GIS
> to patrons?
> Should map librarians use MARC or Dublin Core or ...
> to catalog?
> How have interactive maps available online affected
> patron use and services?
> and etc, etc...
>
> As a note, I worked for a few years in the University
> of Colorado Map Library, so feel free to use "map
> lingo" without having to explain it.
>
> Thank you for all your help in advance,
> Wendy Mokes
>
>
>


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Nick Millea
Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG, UK
tel       : +44 1865 287119
fax      : +44 1865 277139
email : [log in to unmask]

homepage: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/guides/maps/
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