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     It gives me great pleasure {I lie a lot...}  to announce that Mr.
     Christopher J.J. Thiry, late of The New York Public Library, Research
     Libraries, Map Division, has been appointed the Map Librarian at the
     Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado.
 
     Chris has been instrumental at New York Public Library in setting up
     and running our computer mapping workstation. Actually, it was set up
     by April Carlucci [and she reads Maps-l, even if she is in London, now
     at the British Museum Map Collection, thank you very much!]  and Chris
     made it grow.
 
     We will miss Chris's computer expertise and inventiveness, not to
     mention his sense of humor, his ties, and his skill as a map librarian
     extraordinaire.
 
     Now if you guys can count, you know that leaves 2 of us here at the
     old NYPL watering hole...send your cards and letters of condolence to
     Nancy and Alice.