--- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 17:17:45 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) From: Mark Thomas <[log in to unmask]> Subject: map event at ALA<fwd> Sender: Mark Thomas <[log in to unmask]> The following was forwarded to me by a colleague. Also, see http://www.folusa.com/html/AlaAnnual.html -- Mark Thomas, Perkins Library, Duke University [log in to unmask] 1-2:30 p.m., Monday, July 10 McCormick Place - N427d *Friends of Libraries U.S.A. "Book Trip: The Solving of a True Library Mystery" Author Miles Harvey, The Island of Lost Maps, A Story of Cartographic Crime (Random House, September 2000), will discuss his four year hunt for details about the elusive map thief Gilbert Bland, who stole from 17 of America's finest libraries eluding the FBI and alert librarians. Editor Jonathan Karp, Marcia Purcell, library marketer and R. Russell Maylone, curator, McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Library, will add their views to the discussion of the obsessive power of maps and cartographic crime. --- End Forwarded Message ---