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Subject:        WAY KEWL, Alice
Date:   Sun, 02 Jul 2006 08:13:32 -0700
From:   Dr. Virginia R. Hetrick <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>


Alice and her restored Map Room made the CBS Sunday Morning show this
morning.  I have two comments:

1.  Equally cool on getting that Smiley guy nailed (all we need is
smileys getting a bad name -- the yellow kind ;-)
2.  You get a big PLUS for recognizing and saying that sometimes
original materials are necessary.  I recently went to an unmentioned
library looking for a topo sheet from the late 1930s and was only
allowed to have access to the digital version of one that had been
considerably marked up and the digital version was in B/W even though
the thumbnail of the original source showed color.  (Next time I'm in
DC, I'll be visiting LC to use theirs to make my photograph!)

I also have a question:  One thing I noticed at the unmentioned map
library was that they were handling antique materials without gloves.
Is this something that generally happens with maps and not with other
old materials?  I've noticed that, whenever I've been at the Getty
Research Institute that they handle everything but the most modern
materials with gloves that appear similiar to photo negative editing gloves.

I noticed that they didn't give you your full 15 minutes of fame, so I'm
assuming that you'll be on again!  ;-)

virginia

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