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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:56:34 -0600
From: Mary Galneder <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Tactile maps for blind and visually impaired students <fwd>
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The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically
Handicapped, Library of Congress, published:

International directory of tactile map collections.  1985.
(ISBN 0-8444-0506-X)

Tactile maps, a listing of maps in the National Library
Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped Collection.
1987.  (Supt. of Docs. no.:  LC 19.2: Til; ISBN
0-8444-0549-3).

(For each map listed, a variety of information was given
including title, cartographer, place and date of
publication, scale and size of map, and type of map and
features shown. Many of the maps listed were published by
the Howe Press of the Perkins School for the Blind,
Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1938.)

Maps listed in the catalog were available on loan under
certain conditions at that time; the address was:  Customer
Relations Section, National Library Service for the Blind
and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, Washington,
DC. You might want to look at the Library of Congress
website (http://www.loc.gov) for current information.


On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 15:12:10 -0500
 Johnnie Sutherland <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 09:48:37 -0500
> From: "Theresa C. Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Tactile maps for blind and visually impaired
> students
> Sender: "Theresa C. Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
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>
>     I teach international relations and comparative
> politics classes for
> undergraduates.  Maps are crucial for these courses and
> yet I am not
> finding much available for students who are blind or
> visually
> handicapped.  The excellent atlases put out e.g. by
> Hammond, and the
> related software, gives the sighted kids a real thrill.
> For everybody
> else I would need physical features of continents and
> countries (and the
> seabed) as well as political boundaries, locations of
> major cities,
> etc.  Any suggestions???
>     Thanks for your help.
>
>     Theresa C. Smith
>     Visiting Professor
>     Albright College Department of Political Science
>     13th and Bern
>     Reading, PA 19612-5234
>
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Robinson Map Library
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University of Wisconsin
550 N. Park St.
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