-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: fact checking re GL Alexander Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 15:59:06 -0500 From: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] Thanks for the cite, Francis. Just note please that it is Gerard, two rs, L. Alexander. Alice C. Hudson Chief, The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division The Humanities and Social Sciences Library The New York Public Library 5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117 New York, NY 10018-2788 [log in to unmask], 212-930-0589, fax 212-930-0027 Hours: 1-7:30 Tu & Wed, 1-6 Thurs-Sat. Closed Sun, Mon. http://nypl.org/research/chss/map/map.html Re: fact checking re GL Alexander Maps-L Moderator for Francis Herbert to: MAPS-L 03/03/2009 03:56 PM Sent by: "Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum" <[log in to unmask]> Please respond to maps-l -------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: fact checking re GL Alexander Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 20:47:24 -0000 From: Francis Herbert <[log in to unmask]> To: 'Maps-L' <[log in to unmask]> Alice: Cannot (yet) verify your second paragraph/query. But, if a measure of former communist East Germany's reaction to capitalist Gerald's 'Guide to atlases, . . .' might be of interest - to anyone - I sought out the following in RGS-IBG's Library collection - Geography and earth sciences publications, 1973-75 : an author, title and subject guide to books reviewed, and an index to the reviews / compiled by John Van Balen. - [Ann Arbor MI :] Pierian Press, 1978. - ISBN 0-87650-091-2 This is a 2-volume work (an earlier volume covered ca 1968-72 [?]) I have occasionally remembered for obscure enquiries, but apparently not well-known. The German review is indicated to be found in 'Petermann's Geographische Mitteilungen', 1974, 118(3), 237; but I haven't checked this out. Nor have I checked out Muriel Lock's 'Guide to the lit. of geogr. and cartogr.' Francis Herbert -----Original Message----- From: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Maps-L Moderator for Alice Hudson Sent: 02 March 2009 14:25 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: fact checking re GL Alexander -------- Original Message -------- Subject: fact checking re GL Alexander Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:41:41 -0500 From: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] Does anyone out there have the Special Libraries Association "Directory of members," 1948? and is Gerard listed as a member? [Our copy is missing, natch.] I believe his book, "Guide to atlases: world, regional, national, thematic; an international listing of atlases published since 1950," pub. 1971, was cited as a 'best reference' book in a listing of same for 1971, probably in 1972. I had no luck in verifying this. Anyone know for sure? Many thanks, Alice, Alice C. Hudson Chief, The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division The Humanities and Social Sciences Library The New York Public Library 5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117 New York, NY 10018-2788 [log in to unmask], 212-930-0589, fax 212-930-0027 Hours: 1-7:30 Tu & Wed, 1-6 Thurs-Sat. Closed Sun, Mon. http://nypl.org/research/chss/map/map.html: