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Subject:        Call for discussion topics - MAGERT Map Collection Management
Discussion Group
Date:   Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:28:02 -0500
From:   Kristi Jensen <[log in to unmask]>
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Maps-L Colleauges,

The MAGERT Map Collection Management Discussion Group will be meeting at
ALA in Chicago from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Sunday July 12th in the Palmer
House Hotel - the LaSalle 3 room.

Please send me any topics you would like to discuss at this meeting by
Wednesday, June 24th so that I can add them to the agenda.

I look forward to hearing from many of you....but just to get you
thinking, I have provided a couple of potential discussion topics
below.  Do these interest you?  Do you have your own ideas that will
pique the interest of our group?  Please don't be shy...share them with
me before the 24th!

Potential discussion topics:

What new, innovative methods are being used/developed by Map Libraries
to provide (better or improved) access to their collections?  Have you
developed any new technological tools that improve access to print or
digital collections?  Please submit some brief information to me and
plan on attending the Map Collection Management group to share
information about your latest efforts!

How might we create and share data/information that might help each of
us provide better access to our map collections?  Can we share
georeferenced data for and digital images of index maps to provide some
online information about map sets without each of us redoing the same
work? (For example, see the representation of Harvard Map Boundaries -
http://cga-3.hmdc.harvard.edu/africamap/?zoom=4&lat=13.9234&lon=12.83203&layers=B000T&africamap_hmc=1&searching=hmc-
on AfricaMap which we saw demo'd in Denver at  ALA midwinter.  Click on
the map to see a list of the map sets available (in pop-up boxes) for a
particular area, click on the set of interest, and gain access to a link
for the index to each set.)

Is there other data to support access tools that might be valued by your
colleagues and easily shared?

An even broader question building on the questions above - would it be
feasible to combine information about the sets we own and create a
geographic "catalog" of our holdings.  Can we create something like the
AfricaMap but include an additional field for various holdings?  (Our
own version of WorldCat for map sets?)


I look forward to hearing from all of you and to seeing you in Chicago!

Thanks in advance for your valuable input.  You participation is what
makes these sessions great!

Best regards,

Kristi

--
Kristi Jensen
  Head, John R. Borchert Map Library
    University of Minnesota
      S-76 Wilson Library
         309 19th Ave. South
            Minneapolis, MN 55455
              612-624-0545
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