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ISSN 1943-6548 a Newsletter of the Map ISSN 1943-6548 base line a newsletter of the Map and Geospatial Information Round Table TABLE OF CONTENTS 4 From the Chair 5 MAGIRT Midwinter Schedule for Dallas in 2012 6 On the Catalgoing/Cataloguing Front LC G&M Twitter Account 7 LC G&M Cataloging Team E-mail 8 New Maps and Cartographic Materials 25 Great Moments in Map Librarianship http://www.ala.org/magirt/ Volume 32, Number 6 December 2011 base line is an official publication of the American Library Association’s Map and Geospatial Information Round Table (MAGIRT). The purpose of base line is to provide current information on cartographic materials, other publications of interest to map and geography librarians, meetings, related governmental activi- ties, and map librarianship. It is a medium of communication for members of MAGIRT and information of interest is welcome. The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent those of the American Library Association and MAGIRT. Contributions should be sent to the appropri- ate editor listed below. Editor: Steve Rogers, Map Librarian (retired), Thompson Library, Ohio State University, 1858 Neil Avenue Mall, Columbus, OH 43210 E-mail: [email protected] Distribution Manager: James A. Coombs, Maps Library, Missouri State University, 901 S. National, #175, Springfield, MO 65897 Tel.: 417/836-4534 E-mail: [email protected] Cataloging Editor: Tammy T. Wong, Cartographic Materials Cataloger, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE, Washington, DC 20540-2232 Tel: 202/707-6735 E-mail: [email protected] Electronic Mapping Editor: Vacant New Maps and Books Editor: David J. Bertuca, Map Librarian, Science & Engineering Library, 225 Capen Hall, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260- 1672 Tel: 716/645-1332 Fax: 716/645-3710 E-mail: [email protected] Membership Committee Chairperson: Roger Knouff, Map/GIS Librarian, Arizona State University, Noble Science & Engineering Library, P.O. Box 871006, Tempe, AZ 85287-1006 Tel: 480/965-5973 E-mail: [email protected] Advertising Rates: For one issue: full page $100; half page $50; quarter page $25. Opposite “Great Moments in Map Librarianship”: full page $150; half page $80; quarter page $40. Send graphic or word processing file as an email attachment to the editor or mail hard copy to editor. Submissions will be re-formatted to the extent necessary to fit the size and proportion requested. Consider that the final size and proportion of a full page is 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Advertisers will be invoiced. Mail checks to the MAGIRT Treasurer, payable in U.S. dollars to ALA-MAGIRT. © American Library Association 2011 312/944-6780 Published by the Map and Geospatial Information Round Table base line is published electronically six times a year: in February, April, June, August, October, and December. Single printed pre-2008 issues of base line are available at a cost of $5.00 per issue, U.S. and Canadian orders; $7.00 per issue for all other foreign orders. Checks, payable to the American Library Association, should be mailed to Jim Coombs, base line Production Manager, Maps Library, Missouri State University, 901 S. National, #175, Springfield, MO 65804-0095. Members of MAGIRT can access base line as a benefit of their memberships. American Library Association personal and institutional members may choose MAGIRT membership for $20.00 (personal) or $60.00 (institutional) by so advising the American Library Association, 50 W. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. MAGIRT OFFICERS: Chairperson: Hallie Pritchett, Map and Federal Regional Depository Librarian, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, GA 30602 Tel: 706/542-0690 (Map Library) 706/542-0664 (Main Library) E-mail: [email protected] Vice-Chairperson (Chair-Elect): Tracey Hughes, Librarian, Colorado Mountain College Alpine Campus, 1330 Bob Adams Drive, Steamboat Springs, CO 80487 Tel: 970/870-4451 E-mail: [email protected] Secretary: Edith Scarletto, Head, Map Library, Liaison Librarian for Geography & Geology, Kent State University, University Libraries, P.O. Box 5190, Kent, OH 44242-0001 Tel: 330/672-1674 (a.m.) / 330/672-2017 (p.m.) E-mail: [email protected] Treasurer: Paige Andrew, Maps Cataloging Librarian, 126 Paterno Library, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 Tel: 814/867-0786 E-mail: [email protected] Past Chairperson: Marcy Bidney, Head, Donald W. Hamer Maps Library, Pennsylvania State University Libraries, 1 Central Pattee Library, University Park, PA 16802-1807 Tel: 814/865-0139 E-mail: [email protected] http://www.ala.org/magirt/ FROM THE CHAIR Hallie Pritchett, University of Georgia December 14, 2011 Hard to believe it’s December already! Much to my surprise, I am already halfway through my term as MAGIRT chair. It has been a busy 6 months, MAGIRT- wise (work-wise, too, come to think of it). Since Annual we have successfully negotiated our name change, planned our Annual 2012 program, had most of our committees meet and conduct their business virtually, saw our Web site finally migrate to Drupal, and gotten the most recent titles in our Print Publication Series (Cartographic Citations, 2nd edition and Great Moments in Map Librarianship) into the online ALA Bookstore. We also made a $500 donation to the Spectrum Scholarship Program, which, per their Web site, is ALA’s national diversity and recruitment effort designed to address the specific issue of under- representation of critically needed ethnic librarians within the profession, while serving as a model for ways to bring attention to larger diversity issues in the future. All in all, these past few months have been a very productive time for MAGIRT. I would like to thank everyone involved for all their hard work in support of our Round Table; MAGIRT would not exist without the efforts and dedication of its members. December also means that ALA Midwinter is just around the corner. Our Midwinter 2012 meeting schedule is included in this issue of base line. As promised at Annual and in my August From the Chair column, Midwinter 2012 has a greatly reduced in-person meeting schedule. While most of our standing committees will not be meeting in Dallas, all of our discussion groups will meet there, as will the Cataloging and Classification Committee. We plan to stream our Map Collection Management and GIS Discussion Groups online; details on how to view these sessions will be posted on ALA Connect and the MAGIRT listserv in early January 2012. The committees that will not meet in person have been asked to submit a summary of their activities since Annual to the Executive Board. Finally, most of the in-person Executive Board meeting on Sunday will be devoted to discussion of our activities since Annual—with a particular emphasis on the positives and negatives of our virtual committee meetings and the Midwinter meeting schedule—and planning for Annual 2012 in Anaheim. Although our Midwinter 2012 meeting schedule is a significant departure from past years, based on the work our committees have done since Annual, I remain confident that this has been and will continue to be a positive change for base line 32(6): 4 MAGIRT. If you will be attending Midwinter in person, please join us on Friday evening for our Dutch treat dinner at Campisi’s in Dallas; further details are listed on the meeting schedule. If you won’t be attending Midwinter this year, please plan to join us virtually on Saturday afternoon for our Map Collection Management and GIS Discussion Groups. As always, if you have any questions, comments or concerns about Midwinter or MAGIRT in general, please contact me—hpritche@ uga.edu. Happy holidays! I look forward to seeing many of you—either in person or virtually—in Dallas next month. MAGIRT Midwinter 2012 meeting schedule Friday – January 20th 6:30PM – Dutch treat dinner at Campisi’s, 1520 Elm Street, Ste 111, Dallas http://campisis.us/Downtown-Dallas.html Saturday – January 21st 1:30PM – 3:30PM Map Collection Management Discussion Group Dallas Convention Center – D163 4:00PM – 5:30PM GIS Discussion Group Dallas Convention Center – D163 Sunday – January 22nd 8:00AM – 12:00PM Map Cataloging Discussion Group/ Cataloging & Classification Committee Dallas Convention Center – D161 1:30PM – 3:30PM Executive Board Omni Hotel – Arts District 6 PLEASE NOTE: The Map Collection Management and GIS Discussion Groups will be streamed online; details on how to view these sessions will be posted on ALA Connect and the MAGIRT listserv in early January 2012. If you have any questions or comments about our Midwinter 2012 meeting schedule, please contact MAGIRT chair Hallie Pritchett ([email protected]). base line 32(6): 5 ON THE CATALOGING/CATALOGUING FRONT Tammy Wong, Library of Congress LC G&M Twitter Account [email protected] The Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress started a Twitter account on June 22nd, 2011, making us the first custodial division to have a Twitter account. The goal of this Twitter account as outlined in our communications plan is to engage librarians, researchers, genealogists, the general public, and map collectors. The G&M Twitter feed will allow us to quickly share news about new collections, content, website features, map scans, and conferences G&M staff will be participating. The G&M Twitter account will allow us to communicate quicker and more effectively about new acquisitions, newly catalogued material, and newly scanned items to our patrons. We have now tweeted 137 times and have at the moment 3,266 followers of our Twitter account, [email protected]. The links we have posted have been clicked a total of 15,494 times with our maps of the First Battle of Bull Run having the most clicks at 440. The division tweets at least once every workday and provides maps for historical as well as topical subjects, such as when we tweeted a modern CIA map of the Kermadec Islands on July 6th following the earthquake in that area.
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