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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:27:40 -0500
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David,

Probably a lot of people have not gotten to the back of the issue where
this immature screed against an entire profession was placed. Having been
in map librarianship for longer than this youngster has even been on the
mapped earth, I was mightily annoyed at the multiple uses of the "gross
generalization" to slander all map libraries and librarians as a class.

Sadly, this could have been a landmark article in the front of the
magazine, and a landmark in the literature had the tone been professional,
stimulating, challenging and positive. The bitter, judgemental tone makes
one wonder what incident precipitated this response.

I assume this young man is trying to lead map librarians somewhere.
Successful leadership is characterized by modeling and inspiration, not to
mention identification with those being led. [sorry to be simplistic here,
I do not actually find time to read the mounds of "leadership literature"
out there].Successful leaders do not horsewhip their followers. They
inspire. They provide a vision, or work with the group to jointly create a
vision for future action, leading to [choke] "new paradigms."  I would not
follow this youngster anywhere to any paradigm.





Alice C. Hudson
Chief, Map Division
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
The New York Public Library
5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117
New York, NY 10018-2788

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Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:19:08 -0500
From: David Cobb <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Cartographic Perspectives, No. 38, Winter 2001
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Colleagues -

I am a little surprised that nobody has made any reference to C. Peter
Keller's article 'The Map Library's Future' in the recent Cartographic
Perspectives? He lays out some very interesting challenges to the future of
map collections and it is well worth the read. While I believe some of his
statements are a bit harsh/extreme (although they probably represent an
important segment of our user community) I also believe that much of what
he says reflects issues that we should be considering. So, will we need
physical map libraries in the future he asks?

David Cobb
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