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Subject:        Re: map societies vs map organizations
Date:   Mon, 4 Dec 2006 12:01:04 -0500
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Hmm, only two categories?

Regional map societies tend to focus on map collecting and antiquarian
maps, local interest as in WMS, NYMS

Map organizations, I assume are perhaps NACIS or NEMO? made up of
mapmakers, librarians, map aficionados of all stripes

Map library assns are made up primarily of professionals in the field of
map librarianship, curators and archivists of cartographic collections/ALA,
SLA, ACMLA

map library assocation of assns: IFLA G& M is another level with members
representing ALA, SLA, LIBER, BCS Map curators group, ACMLA, etc.

map listservs and mapblogs form another sort of mappy membership
organization, composed of those who chose to sign on

just a thought...on our mappy complexity

Alice C. Hudson
Chief, The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
The New York Public Library
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New York, NY 10018-2788

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