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Subject:        New Map Librarian
Date:   Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:03:46 -0500
From:   Elizabeth Psyck <[log in to unmask]>
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Hello everyone,


I was wondering if any of you on the list had suggestions for resources
to get a crash course in map librarianship. To give you a bit of
background, I'm a recent library school graduate and currently the
Government Documents librarian at Grand Valley State University. In
addition to govdocs, I'm also in charge of the maps and liaison
activities for three departments. The most recent person in my job sort
of ignored the map collection as she had other responsibilities, but I'm
hoping to do more collecting and promotion to other librarians as well
as faculty and staff. I've already looked through MAGERT (and will be
joining it once my memberships come up for renewal) and I'm slowly but
surely reading Map Librarianship by Mary Larsgaard, but it seems like I
must be missing something. I'm not in charge of processing the physical
maps, just maintaining and collecting them, as well as promotion.


Any tips, hints, or suggestions would be incredibly welcome! At the
moment I'm busy enough with my other departments, but once the big start
of semester rush for instruction is over, I want to really dig in to the
collection, so the earlier I can start brainstorming the better!


Elizabeth




Elizabeth Psyck

Government Documents Librarian
Liaison to Political Science, International Relations, and Geology
Grand Valley State University
(616) 331 - 8675
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