-------- Original Message -------- Subject: L.A. Public Library inherits treasure of maps Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:33:49 +0000 From: Ratliff, Louise <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Article in today’s Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-map-house-20121019,0,2619000.story L.A. Public Library inherits treasure of maps By Bob Pool, Los Angeles Times October 19, 2012 The discovery that real estate agent Matthew Greenberg made when he stepped inside a Mount Washington cottage will put the Los Angeles Public Library on the map. Stashed everywhere in the 948-square-foot tear-down were maps. Tens of thousands of maps. Fold-out street maps were stuffed in file cabinets, crammed into cardboard boxes, lined up on closet shelves and jammed into old dairy crates. Wall-size roll-up maps once familiar to schoolchildren were stacked in corners. Old globes were lined in rows atop bookshelves also filled with maps and atlases. [more]… Louise Ratliff Social Sciences and Map Catalog Librarian UCLA Cataloging & Metadata Center 11020 Kinross Ave. Box 957230 Los Angeles, CA 90095-7230 (310)206-5853