------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call for discussion topics - MAGERT Map Collection Management Discussion Group Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:28:02 -0500 From: Kristi Jensen <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Maps-L Colleauges, The MAGERT Map Collection Management Discussion Group will be meeting at ALA in Chicago from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Sunday July 12th in the Palmer House Hotel - the LaSalle 3 room. Please send me any topics you would like to discuss at this meeting by Wednesday, June 24th so that I can add them to the agenda. I look forward to hearing from many of you....but just to get you thinking, I have provided a couple of potential discussion topics below. Do these interest you? Do you have your own ideas that will pique the interest of our group? Please don't be shy...share them with me before the 24th! Potential discussion topics: What new, innovative methods are being used/developed by Map Libraries to provide (better or improved) access to their collections? Have you developed any new technological tools that improve access to print or digital collections? Please submit some brief information to me and plan on attending the Map Collection Management group to share information about your latest efforts! How might we create and share data/information that might help each of us provide better access to our map collections? Can we share georeferenced data for and digital images of index maps to provide some online information about map sets without each of us redoing the same work? (For example, see the representation of Harvard Map Boundaries - http://cga-3.hmdc.harvard.edu/africamap/?zoom=4&lat=13.9234&lon=12.83203&layers=B000T&africamap_hmc=1&searching=hmc- on AfricaMap which we saw demo'd in Denver at ALA midwinter. Click on the map to see a list of the map sets available (in pop-up boxes) for a particular area, click on the set of interest, and gain access to a link for the index to each set.) Is there other data to support access tools that might be valued by your colleagues and easily shared? An even broader question building on the questions above - would it be feasible to combine information about the sets we own and create a geographic "catalog" of our holdings. Can we create something like the AfricaMap but include an additional field for various holdings? (Our own version of WorldCat for map sets?) I look forward to hearing from all of you and to seeing you in Chicago! Thanks in advance for your valuable input. You participation is what makes these sessions great! Best regards, Kristi -- Kristi Jensen Head, John R. Borchert Map Library University of Minnesota S-76 Wilson Library 309 19th Ave. South Minneapolis, MN 55455 612-624-0545 [log in to unmask]