--- Begin Forwarded Message --- 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) [log in to unmask] 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: > --- Begin Forwarded Message --- > Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 16:09:45 -0500 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: map librarianship course > Sender: [log in to unmask] > To: [log in to unmask] > > Reply-To: [log in to unmask] > Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> > > > 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 > > [log in to unmask]; 212-930-0589; fax 212-930-0027 > --- End Forwarded Message --- > --- End Forwarded Message ---