-- ================================================ MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ================================================ RE MAPS-L: Halle Library Eastern Michigan Depository Library celebrates 40th anniversary DA Fri, 14 October 2005 FR Angie TO Maps-L From the ECHO Online from Eastern Michigan University http://www.easternecho.com/cgi-bin/story.cgi?11142 Library celebrates anniversary Halle recognizes 40 years of acting as federal depository By John Ryan / Staff Writer FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2005 Photo by John Ryan Congressman John Dingell speaks Tuesday at a ceremony commemorating the date Halle Library became a federal depository. Eastern Michigan recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of its library as a federal depository. Halle Library was designated a federal depository in 1965 by U.S. Congressman Watson E. Vivian. "The army discovered [during World War II] that they didn't have many maps available to them," said Joanne Hansen, Halle's map librarian. "So they called on all the public libraries and universities for maps. After the war, they said this wouldn't happen again to them. They would supply the maps and place them strategically throughout the U.S." Hansen was working at the EMU library the year it was designated as a federal depository. She was then working as the science and technology librarian. "I thought it was a great source of information for us to have available here," she said. "It was a free source of information. Although we had to take care of the sources, it was still free to us. The major collections of maps that we hold are government documents." According to an EMU news release, Halle Library receives approximately 33 percent of all available government publications. "Most of the maps we receive are from the government," Hansen said. "We hold maps such as the U.S. Geological Survey, Central Intelligence Agency maps and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency maps." In 1965, EMU was then known as the Michigan State Normal College and was one of 45 colleges in the United States that was chosen as a federal depository. "Our director at the time worked tirelessly to make us a federal depository," Hansen said. "We were one of the first teachers colleges west of the Allegheny. We were known to produce notable graduates and had nationally renowned staff on hand here, so I think that worked in our favor, as well." Some of the documents people might find range from things such as Census data to a 1976 government report on the 1890 Sioux Indian massacre to official records of the Union and Confederate Armies. The 40th anniversary of the EMU library federal depository was commemorated with a shadowbox presented by Congressman John Dingell, D-Mich., in honor of Halle library's services and also with two displays that will be out for viewing through Sunday. .:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._ ANGIE COPE American Geographical Society Library UW Milwaukee 2311 E. Hartford Avenue Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201 http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/AGSL/index.html Hours: M-F 8:00am-4:30pm [log in to unmask] (414) 229-6282 (800) 558-8993 (US TOLL FREE) (414) 229-3624 (FAX) Map Librarian, MAPS-L Moderator http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/AGSL/welcome_to_mapsl%20forum.html .:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._