There are certainly other bullet point possibilities for the 3 groups below --

Building a positive and informed working relationship with your preservation/conservation department

--Encapsulation – who does it and how? Parameters for encapsulation (communicating size constraints, sometimes things just need to be folded!), purchasing supplies for encapsulation, options for full encapsulation (polyester film folders/L-sleeves

--Map folders – purchasing, whose budget?

--Mending – who, how?

--Outsourcing possibilities

--Determining what treatment is needed for specific pieces

Building a positive and informed working relationship with library administration

--Space needs (work/processing/cataloging space = big tables ; reader space = big tables)

--Collection storage needs – map cases, wide/deep shelving for quarto & folio sized volumes

--Cartographic materials in remote storage

--Library staff education/training needs

Building a positive relationship with colleagues

--Partnering to acquire “big ticket” items of mutual interest

--Cartographic materials as a resource for their instructional needs

jmj

Jenny Marie Johnson
Map and Geography Librarian & Assoc. Professor of Library Administration

University Library | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Map Library
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From: Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Quill, Theresa Marguerite
Sent: Monday, December 6, 2021 8:18 AM
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Subject: Map Librarianship Course Planning

Hi all!

I’m in the process of developing a course on Map/GIS Librarianship for the Department of Library and Information Science at Indiana University.  I’m really starting from scratch, so would appreciate any input. What do you wish you learned in library school? Has anyone taught a similar course and would be willing to share resources? I’m imagining some combination of spatial humanities, map care & collecting, critical cartography, map types/reading, and a little bit of cartographic history, etc.

Thanks in advance! Feel free to reply to me directly if you prefer.

Theresa

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Theresa Quill (she/her/hers)

Map and Spatial Data Librarian

Liaison to Department of Geography

Associate Librarian

Herman B Wells Library, E241C

Indiana University Bloomington

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