This forwarded posting from ‘Lis-maps’ may (or not?) summarize/add more to events etc., hitherto posted elsewhere.
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From: A forum for issues related to map & spatial data librarianship [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Wendy Cawthorne
Sent: 20 July 2015 10:12
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Subject: Re: Mapping as art
For more information, check out also our Online Exhibition http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Library-and-Information-Services/Exhibitions/William-Strata-Smith and Picture Library http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/PictureLibrary . There is also an website where several different states of the map can be viewed (and compared side by side) http://www.strata-smith.com/
Further events planned for the Bicentenary year are listed at http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Events/William-Smith-Bicentenary In addition to the NHM’s exhibition there will be major exhibitions in Oxford and Cardiff http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Events/William-Smith-Bicentenary/Exhibitions
A late edition of the Map hangs in the Entrance Hall in the Geological Society and may be viewed there during our normal opening hours (9.30a.m.-5.30p.m. Monday – Friday), plus there is a bookshop in the Library selling facsimiles (including that mentioned below by Richard Oliver) and other related ‘Smithiana’ e.g. a book of poems MAP / edited by Michael McKimm or online at http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/geogifts#WS
Wendy
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From: A forum for issues related to map & spatial data librarianship [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Oliver, Richard
Sent: 20 July 2015 08:23
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Subject: Re: Mapping as art
It is perhaps worth adding that the British Geological Survey has issued a roughly half lineal scale facsimile of William Smith's map, bender-folded, for £12:95: ISBN 978-0-7518-3788-9. (I bought my copy from BGS at Keyworth, so don't have any web link.) There are worse desinations for £12:95!
Richard Oliver
From: A forum for issues related to map & spatial data librarianship <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Brian <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 19 July 2015 01:09
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Subject: Mapping as art