-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Announcing the EGR Taylor Collection of Historic Printed Maps at University of London Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:33:33 +0100 From: April Carlucci <[log in to unmask]> To: A forum for issues related to map & spatial data librarianship <[log in to unmask]>, <[log in to unmask]>, <[log in to unmask]> CC: Christine Wise <[log in to unmask]> Please excuse the cross-posting. Dear map and history of cartography community, Senate House Library, University of London is pleased to announce the completion of the cataloguing of the E.G.R. Taylor Collection of Historic Printed Maps. This collection of over 900 map sheets, representing 96 individual and series titles, and dating between 1700 and 1900, was presented to Senate House Library by Birkbeck College, where E.G.R. Taylor was Chair of the Department of Geography from 1930 until 1944. Thanks to a generous grant from SHELF, the Friends of Senate House Library, which enabled cataloguing and preservation treatments, records are now available on Senate House Library's main catalogue on http://catalogue.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/ and on COPAC on http://copac.ac.uk/. The maps are available for consultation in the Special Collections Reading Room in the Senate House Library. Please see a description of the collection at: http://www.shl.lon.ac.uk/specialcollections/egrtaylormaps.shtml Please also see other map resources in Special Collections at http://www.shl.lon.ac.uk/specialcollections/index.shtml For those not familiar with COPAC, it provides free access to the merged online catalogues of major University and National Libraries in the UK and Ireland, including the British Library. Please note that many of the map records included in COPAC are not available via OCLC, and thus represent an additional source of information about maps and for cataloguing copy. For further information, please contact: Special Collections Senate House Library University of London Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU Telephone 020 7862 8470 Fax 020 7862 8480 Email [log in to unmask] http://www.shl.lon.ac.uk/specialcollections/index.shtml Posted by April Carlucci.