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Subject: ALA Orlando meeting and UF Map & Imagery Library
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 14:07:21 -0400
From: HelenJane Armstrong <[log in to unmask]>


Hello to those who are attending the ALA Annual Convention in Orlando in a
few weeks.

At the University of Florida Map & Imagery Library, we have received a
number of inquiries as to whether there is going to be a field trip to our
Library in conjunction with ALA or if there will be an open house.  We would
gladly welcome you all to our Library but unfortunately it is at least a two
hour drive one way and could not conveniently be fit into the ALA Conference
schedule.

However, you are most welcome to visit the Library on your own.  If you are
driving we are only a few miles East of Interstate 75. For information
concerning hours, phone numbers, etc. please visit our website:
http://web.uflib.ufl.edu

For those of  you who are unaware or know little of the University of
Florida Map & Imagery Library, the following are a few brief statements
about its assets and holdings:  With over 515,000 maps, 300,000 aerial
photos and satellite images and 9,000 books and CDs, it is one of the
largest academic Map Libraries in the United States and the largest in the
SEUS.  In 1973, I was hired to set up the Map Library in what was one of the
last Land Grant Universities and Regional GPO Depositories not to have a map
library.  From the AMS depository maps collection it has grown to a
comprehensive collection of maps with foreign research specialties of
Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East.  The oldest map is 1493 and part
of a special collection of Antique Holy Land maps.  The Library collects
antique maps as well as GIS datasets and Remote Sensing Images.  It is the
repository of the archival ASCS aerial photo collection of Florida.  Among
innovations are: the prototype collection of mapcases on electric moveable
carriages; extensive scanning project of Florida Sanborn Maps, Florida
non-copyright maps, antique maps of Africa, Latin America, Holy land and the
ASCS Aerial Photo collection of Florida.

We have an excellent staff who will gladly assist you on the days both
before and after the ALA Convention.  I will be here until June 22nd and
returning June 30th.   There have been various librarians during the last
few years  who have talked about visiting the UF Map & Imagery Library.  You
should be aware that this may be your last opportunity to visit the Map &
Imagery Library while I am here to answer questions and can show you around.
I will be retiring Dec. 30, 2005.

I hope to see many of you in Orlando if not Gainesville.  Later I will be
posting a message about the MAGERT Program on the map and aerial scanning
project at our Library.

Helen

HelenJane Armstrong PhD                         352-392-2828
Head, Map & Imagery Library                             [log in to unmask]
George A. Smathers Libraries
University of Florida
PO Box 117011
Gainesville, FL 7011