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Subject:        Stanford's new Digital and Rare Map Librarian: G. Salim Mohammed
Date:   Thu, 9 Jun 2011 16:26:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Julie Sweetkind-Singer <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To:       Julie Sweetkind-Singer <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Julie Sweetkind-Singer <[log in to unmask]>



* Apologies for duplication. *

Hello, all,

I have the pleasure to announce that G. Salim Mohammed has been named
the new Digital and Rare Map Librarian at Stanford University. Salim has
been hired as the head of the yet-to-be named Historic Map Center, which
is slated to open in the next few years. This Center will house the
David Rumsey Map Collection as well as rare maps from Special
Collections and the Branner Library Map Collections. It will combine
historical materials with state of the art technology, seamlessly
blending a variety of cartographic and spatial materials to provide
support for a wide variety of students, faculty and scholars in the
pursuit of teaching and research. These efforts will go hand in hand
with the map and geospatial collections and services available at
Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections.

Salim comes to us from the University of Hawaii at Manoa where he was
the Maps/GIS Librarian. Salim arrived in Hawaii in early 2007, after the
devastating October 2004 Halloween flood. One of his jobs was to
spearhead the effort to move the paper map-based collection to a
digital-heavy geospatial service model. He lead the efforts to digitize
and georeference unique Hawaii maps as well as managed the creation of
Manoa MAGIS (Maps, Aerials and GIS), first a virtual space to access
digital content and later the build out of a lab space to support GIS
use on the campus. Salim has a Master's in Geography and a Master's in
Library and Information Studies, both from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.

We are thrilled that Salim has joined us here at Stanford. I'm sure it
will be a fruitful collaboration for all.

Best,

Julie

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Julie Sweetkind-Singer
Assistant Director of Geospatial, Cartographic and Scientific Data &
Services
Head Librarian, Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections
Stanford University
397 Panama Mall; MC 2211
Stanford, CA 94305
(650)725-1102