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Subject:        RE: Libraries mapped, a question of research
Date:   Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:06:58 +0200
From:   Jan Smits <[log in to unmask]>
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After having been confronted with many examples, amongst others through
"An atlas of Cyberspace" I have put a notice on the internet under the
title "Libraries mapped, a question of research!" on
http://persons.kb.nl/jsmits/librariesmapped.html

I hope that this notice provokes colleagues, librarians as well as map
librarians and scholars, to think about new visual ways  of presenting a
collection on the Internet. Whether this is a map collection, a
text-based library collection or an archives collection doesn't really
matter as the technologies researched till now are equally applicable to
all those collections.
I hope that some are so much provoked that they are willing to write an
article concerning this topic. For information see the head of the
notice.
Otherwise I hope it leads to discussions and imaginative comments.

With kind regards,,

Jan Smits
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of The Netherlands
Editorial Board-member of the Journal for Map & Geography Libraries
Ex-Chair Groupe des Cartothecaires de LIBER - European Map Library Group