-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Report of the 'inquiry into ma-use and user habits in Europe'1987-1988 Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:32:35 +0100 From: "Jan Smits" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]>, <[log in to unmask]>,<[log in to unmask]>, <[log in to unmask]>,<[log in to unmask]> ------------------ Dear Colleagues, Find on http://www.kb.nl/infolev/liber/articles/smits6.html the Report on the 'Inquiry into ma-use and user-habits in Europe', 1987-1988. Though the inquiry is dated, some of the questions and conclusions are still valid, I think. I should have done it earlier, but time was not on my side. Especially the table, filling 1,500 cells with figures, took me quite some time to produce. Still I hope you have fun with it. With kind regards, Jan Smits Jan Smits Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of The Netherlands P.O. Box 90.407 NL-2509 LK Den Haag The Netherlands tel: +31 70 3140241 fax: +31 70 3140450 E-mail: [log in to unmask] E-mail: [log in to unmask] (when the above does not function) Past-President Groupe des Cartothecaires de LIBER (GdC, European Map Curators Group) 1998-2002 Chairman Working Group for Mapcuratorship, Dutch Cartographic Society (NVK) IFLA Representative for the ICA Spatial Data Standards Commission Secretary Dutch Commision for Cataloguing & Indexing FOBID (Federation of Organizations working in the Library-, Information-, and Documentation-field) WWW-maps: http://www.kb.nl/kb/skd/karto-en.html WWW-GdC: http://www.kb.nl/infolev/liber/intro.htm WWW-personal: http://www.kb.nl/persons/jan-smits/homepage.htm Na matheis kai na matheis ap'tous spoudasmenous (To learn and again to learn from those who know)