----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Columbia University's Butler Library, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Kempner Exhibition Room, is now displaying "The World on Paper, A celebration of the mapmaker's art." The exhibit will be open from March 3 to June 3, 1994. Some 50 rare maps, you know...Blaeus, Orteliuses, Olivas, etc...those guys, are on display, with excellent descriptive label text. The hope is that soon the text material, perhaps accompanied by illustrations, will be published. Mead Cain is the curator of the exhibit, and Jean Ashton, formerly of the New-York Historical Society Library is the Curator for the Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The opening was last night in the middle of the latest snow storm...need I say more? But there was a nice crowd, including local Map Society and Mercator Society members, who will brave even a nor'easter to gawk at old maps. So if you are in town, aim for Spring, do stop by the Butler Library, at the south end of the Columbia campus, to see this exhibit. If perchance the guard hesitates to let you in to the rarified Columbia collections, invoke Jean Ashton's name, and go right up!