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Subject:        [Maphist] Indiana University Map Library to close?
Date:   Sat, 6 May 2006 11:22:01 +0100
From:   tony campbell <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To:       Discussion group for map history <[log in to unmask]>
To:     maps-l



Map Library at Indiana University to close?

a.. May 5. < http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.php?id=35831&adid=campus >
'Four libraries facing closures. SLIS Library to close permanently this
summer' (by Carrie Ritchie in the Indiana Daily Student).
      The Map Library is one of four Indiana University campus libraries
threatened with imminent closure. However, protests are making the
administration review the decision. Much of the piece is about this one
library. Kelly Caylor, professor of ecohydrology, said that the library was
'critical to the daily activity of (his) discipline', and grad student Todd
Lindley commented, 'Removing the map library - and hence, the maps - will
eradicate a very valuable teaching resource from our department and campus.
For geographers, removing the map library from the building is like removing
a projector from an electronic classroom'.

Tony Campbell

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