-------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: Libraries mapped, a question of research Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:06:58 +0200 From: Jan Smits <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> CC: <[log in to unmask]> After having been confronted with many examples, amongst others through "An atlas of Cyberspace" I have put a notice on the internet under the title "Libraries mapped, a question of research!" on http://persons.kb.nl/jsmits/librariesmapped.html I hope that this notice provokes colleagues, librarians as well as map librarians and scholars, to think about new visual ways of presenting a collection on the Internet. Whether this is a map collection, a text-based library collection or an archives collection doesn't really matter as the technologies researched till now are equally applicable to all those collections. I hope that some are so much provoked that they are willing to write an article concerning this topic. For information see the head of the notice. Otherwise I hope it leads to discussions and imaginative comments. With kind regards,, Jan Smits Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of The Netherlands Editorial Board-member of the Journal for Map & Geography Libraries Ex-Chair Groupe des Cartothecaires de LIBER - European Map Library Group