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Subject: RE: MAPS-L: LIBER Groupe des Cartothecaires
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:27:07 -0000
From: Francis Herbert <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Ah, an FRGS in Halifax . . .
It would be interesting (?) for some map curating folk to 'compare and
contrast' the 'raison-d'-etre' of several overlapping (in membership,
objectives, quality of papers presented at conferences, the frequency of
latter, etc.) of all these map curators' societies. A couple of us
European (LIBER GdC) members - 'names withheld to protect the innocent'
- have whispered about this subject in a quiet corner on occasions. If
you're a Brit you have BCS and its Map Curators' Group, Society of
[University] Cartographers, LIBER GdC, IFLA Geogr. & Map, ICA, and ISCEM
[no need to spell out these acronyms as they are well-known to you all .
. .].
Now just off to 'Auld Reekie' for the weekend (in time to avoid the
inevitable fall-out, raging, and gnashing of international teeth),
Francis Herbert Hon. FRGS
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Subject: Re: MAPS-L: LIBER Groupe des Cartothecaires
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:04:53 -0400
From: James Boxall <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum
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Great news that things are not moribund....slow..quiet...but not dead
:-) As for the education group...that looks great and thanks for the web
site... I may send along a bit of info to add related to a library
school course I have taught this term which, if the outline works, might
be of use to others???
By the way, I have used many of the papers from the Group within the
course this year....those papers are wonderful, high quality sources for
relatively current views but (more importantly) great papers showing
where things have come from and some wonderful examples of what others
have done!
thanks
james
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James C. Boxall, FRGS
Director and Curator
GIS Centre and Map Collection,
Killam Memorial Library
6225 University Avenue,
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia,
B3H 4H8 Canada
http://www.dal.ca
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902.494.6126/6719 (o)
902.494.2062 (f)
Vice President, Canadian Cartographic Association
http://www.cca-acc.org/
Vice President, Geomatics Association of Nova Scotia http://www.gans.ca
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