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Subject:        Journal of Map and Geography Libraries/Geoscapes Best Paper of
the Year Award announcement
Date:   Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:06:27 -0800, Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:07:26 -0800
From:   Mary Larsgaard <[log in to unmask]>
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Organization:   UCSB Map & Imagery Lab, Library
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Journal of Map and Geography Libraries/GEOSCAPES
BEST PAPER OF THE YEAR AWARD

It is with great pleasure and excitement that Co-Editors Paige G.
Andrew and Mary Lynette Larsgaard announce that the winner of the Geoscapes
Best Paper of the Year Award for volume 3 (2006/2007) of the Journal
of Map and Geography Libraries/Geoscapes is Yolanda Theunissen for her
article, “Developing and Promoting Outreach Services for Elementary and
Middle Schools: Case Study of a Rare-Map Library at a Public University,”
which appears on pages 5-22 of issue number 2. Yolanda's article was
unanimously selected as the best article –
from nine articles published in volume three - by a panel from the
journal’s Editorial Board. Yolanda is Curator of the Osher Map
Library and Director of the Smith Center of Cartographic Information,
University of Southern Maine, in Portland.

This overview article about the rare-map libraries performing
outreach to the K-12 community is especially outstanding for
highlighting the importance of introducing new communities to
the wonders and beauty of early maps, while at the same
time keeping the maps safe from damage. It notes the sorts
of activities that a map library can undertake in order
to make its collections known to a young community of persons
who will probably never have seen early maps before
their first visit to the map library. The author has obviously
spent considerable time and effort on the best ways to
perform outreach to the K-12 community, and gives
the map librarian who is working on outreach several
ways to proceed; to the reviewers' eyes, it
makes for fascinating reading. The Award Committee
found that this article relates well to the continuing need
to publicize our collections to diverse communities.
This will become a standard “read” for incoming map librarians
interested in public relations.

As winner of the Geoscapes Best Paper of the Year Award, Yolanda will
receive a complimentary subscription to the journal, a $100 Haworth
Press gift certificate and a framed award certificate. In addition,
Haworth will present, in Yolanda's name, a complimentary two-year
international subscription of the journal to an in-need center that
would otherwise not be able to afford to subscribe to the journal.

Congratulations, Yolanda!

Paige Andrew and Mary Larsgaard
Co-Editors, JMGL/Geoscapes

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Mary Lynette Larsgaard
Director, Map Library
Assistant Head, Map and Imagery Laboratory
Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara CA 93106-9010
USA
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