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Subject: RE: use of cartographic materials in a coffee shop]
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:30:23 -0000
From: Carlucci, April <[log in to unmask]>


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Hello everyone from sunny London (it happens so rarely I thought I should
point it out),

On a completely different tangent, this reminded me of the Rutgers
University Library in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The Special Collections
Reading Room (which also housed the New Jersey Collection) was a beautiful
room decked out in fine wood panels and very nice furniture (having been
paid for by a donor, as often happens). The high ceiling allowed for a two
story glass wall which looked out onto the "New Jersey Garden" which
incorporated a map of New Jersey in stone surrounded by plants. It was
lovely, and interestingly, the New Jersey map collection (which I cataloged)
was housed in cabinets near the glass wall, so you could look out on the map
of New Jersey in the garden while looking at maps of New Jersey in the
reading room.

Sadly, when it came time to build an extension on the library.....

Now it only lives in our memory.

Regards
April Carlucci
(now) British Library Map Collections
Curator of Modern Mapping


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From: Johnnie D. Sutherland [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 17 February 2004 22:35
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Subject: use of cartographic materials in a coffee shop]


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Subject: use of cartographic materials in a coffee shop
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:05:56 -0800
From: Janet Collins <[log in to unmask]>


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Hi,

The Huxley Map Library at Western Washington University is one of a few
collections still affiliated with an academic unit and not part of the
main library.

Adjacent to the Map Library is a coffee shop which will start expansion
and remodeling this summer.  The really cool part is that folks involved
in the project would love to have maps integrated into the design in
several ways...the tops of the tables in the seating area and displayed
in several panels at the base of a large expresso bar.  Great publicity
for us next door!

The facility concept ties our campus geography to our regional
geography...landscaping and brickwork outside our building represents
the San Juan Islands, while directly behind our building is Sehome
Hill...our regional geography includes glaciated volcanic mountains to
salt water and the Puget Sound.  Emphasis is on the historical "Salish
Sea", but our committee is open to all ideas, including nautical charts,
aerial photographs, contemporary material...anything that students might
be interested in looking at or learning more about...

Have any of you had opporunity to input into similiar projects or do you
have any ideas on how we might proceed?

unless there is significant interest, would you please respond to me
directly? Thanks!


With appreciation for any assistance,
Janet Collins, Map Librarian and Director
Huxley Map Library
Huxley College of the Environment, WWU

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