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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:10:01 -0400 (AST)
From: James Boxall <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: map librarianship course <fwd>
Sender: James Boxall <[log in to unmask]>


having a bad memory day...but didn't U.Maryland
have a joint degree program....Geog and MLS?
anyone lurking from there on the list?




James Boxall
Curator/Head
Map and Geospatial Information Collection
Killam Library
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada   B3H 4H8
902-494-3757 (tel)
902-494-2062 (fax)
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magic.library.dal.ca

Immediate Past-President, Association of Canadian
Map Libraries and Archives (ACMLA)     www.acmla.org

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Johnnie Sutherland wrote:

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> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 16:09:45 -0500
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> Subject: map librarianship course
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> Dearest colleagues,
>
> This June I will be teaching [ha!] a two-week, three credit course in map
> librarianship in NYPL's new learning center for the Pratt Library School. I
> suspect there is info on their site, and i am trying to get it posted on
> maps-l, fyi.
>
> There will be twenty class sessions, 1 1/2 hrs each, plus another 1 1/2
> each day for work on projects. Guest lecturers will help me not lose my
> mind trying to cover all subjects for all these classes!
>
> Just curious if there are some syllabi out there, or course outlines which
> you all might share with me. I tried searching and got nowhere, which
> illustrates I need to learn alot before I teach this course...I have
> already done a lot of work, and have a hefty reading list. [For three
> credits, they can jolly well read!]
>
> Seems to me there was a discussion of same [map librarianship courses &
> syllabi]  couple of years ago,and perhaps these were indeed gathered
> somewhere and posted? Or am I just dreaming.
>
> Any help appreciated. To think I went into librarianship because I did not
> want to teach, the way four generations of Hudson women did before me...
>
> I think the course will eventually go online, that seems to be the end
> goal. And I will plan to post it, perhaps on Map Div's web page, if the
> bosses here approve.
>
> Thanks again...
>
>
> Alice C. Hudson
> Chief, Map Division
> The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
> The New York Public Library
> 5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117
> New York, NY 10018-2788
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> [log in to unmask]; 212-930-0589; fax 212-930-0027
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