Dear friends and colleagues I did not learn of the passing of Nancy Kandoian until recently, andhope the community won’t mind if I post a few thoughts. I worked with Nancy at The New York Public Library MapDivision from 1986 until 1994. I had worked with maps previously, at the Newark(NJ) Public Library, and cataloging collections of historical maps at theMorristown (NJ) Public Library and Rutgers University Libraries SpecialCollections Department. Based on this experience, I was hired for a one year,grant-funded project to catalog a collection of maps of Latin America at NYPL.I thought I knew how to catalog maps when I arrived at 5th Avenueand 42nd Street, and then I met Nancy, who taught me how to reallycatalog cartographic materials. Nancy was a generous and gracious teacher, andI owe much of the map cataloging knowledge I have used and passed on in mycareer to her. It wasn’t long before I became the map referencespecialist and later the assistant chief of the Division, and it was a joy towork with Nancy, Alice Hudson, and our wonderful staff. Whenever I see the NYPL appear in the background of a movie or tv program, which is more often thanyou’d expect, I think of the days when my ‘office’ was next to one of thosewindows, and how remarkable that time was. Nancy lived in New Jersey, as I did at the time, and we hadenough in common to become friends as well as colleagues. For eight years, ourlockers were next to each other, and I’d watch her put on her LL Bean boots andgather up her other LL Bean paraphernalia, and often we’d head to the PATHstation on 33rd Street together on our way to Hoboken to catch ourdifferent trains home. She would tell me about her love of Maine, and of herArmenian ancestry, along with her baking skills. Without Nancy, I doubt I would have become the map catalogerI've been for many years on both sides of the Atlantic. As a teacher and librarian,she had the patience of a saint and the knowledge of a mastermind. As a friendshe was always generous and humble. She worked hard not only for the users ofthe NYPL map collection, but for the profession as well, to which so manyothers have testified here. Nancy was devoted to the maps she catalogued, butmore so to the readers who would be able to find and use them because of her efforts.The last time I heard from her, she told me that she was anxious to get back tothe Library to deal with the everchanging stack of uncataloged maps that tookup most of her desk in all the years I knew her. I’ll miss her, as will allthose maps, as well as everyone who goes to the Map Division and finds the map thatanswers their question, even if they don’t know that they owe it to Nancy. Take care all. April Carlucci Still in London, England