================================================ MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ================================================ Subject: kids magazine on maps Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 From: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] http://www.cobblestonepub.com/magazine/APP/ The above url is for Cobblestone press which puts out AppleSeeds, a magazine for youth. The November 2005 issue is on Maps. Several years ago their issue on Maps was terrific, and I have added it to my map librarianship reading list, as a wonderful general introduction to the cartographic world for those with no earthly idea what that is all about. A journalist friend once told me a lesson he learned in journalism school, which I have used over and over. When assigned by his newspaper editor to write about a topic in which he had no training, say coal mining or chemistry or astrophysics, go to the local library and check out juvenile literature on the topic. You get an introduction, a frame for the field, even perhaps bibliographic citations to lead you further on into the particular area of study. This has stood me well in trying to find literature about maps and mapping for the typical US citizen with no map training. 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 ------> [Room 121, February - November 2005] [log in to unmask]; 212-930-0589; fax 212-930-0027 http://nypl.org/research/chss/map/map.html --