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Subject:        RE: Maps in libraries question
Date:   Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:30:18 -0400
From:   Grabach, Kenneth A. Mr. <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>



If I have an hour to make a presentation to support staff, I would probably find the need to pare down to coverage.  If the support staff are to be learning about a resource of the library, but are not going to be working with it on a regular basis, the storage and preservation might be shortened a great deal, if not edited out completely.  Think about what you most want them to remember after the presentation is finished.  If it is mainly that there is a map collection, and it covers some important regions and topics, that it is used pretty regularly (I'm guessing here) and has some interesting maps, that is probably going to cover an hour anyway, especially if the more engaged of the group have questions.

Impress and amaze with your maps, but don't snow them over with too much.  I would make these suggestions for any non-specialist audience, students, librarians, support staff, who are not going to be dealing with a particular assignment or research.

Ken Grabach                           <[log in to unmask]>
Maps Librarian                         Phone: 513-529-1726
Miami University Libraries
Oxford, Ohio  45056  USA


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From: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 10:13 PM
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Subject: Fwd: Maps in libraries question

Greetings! I am offering a talk to library support staff at a conference
next Monday on maps in libraries. I have a number of areas to cover
(type, storage, preservation, acquisition, 'truthfulness in maps",
collection development). Wondering if anyone has any suggestions of
something obvious I have left out. The talk is only an hour and I plan
to do a hands-on show and tell. I am addressing only paper copies for
this talk. If you can think of anything that you would want your library
support staff to be aware of with maps that I don't have covered, please
let me know. Looks like today is the only day to get replies so if
something jumps out for you, send it my way. Thanks!!!

John D Crissinger
Newark Campus Library
OSUN/COTC
Newark, OH 43055

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