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  • Provides a forum for the exchange of ideas by persons working with or interested in map and geography collections
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MAGIRT Map Collection Management Discussion Group (ALA 2022)

  • 1.  MAGIRT Map Collection Management Discussion Group (ALA 2022)

    Posted May 17, 2022 10:32 AM
    Good morning,
    With ALA in-person rapidly approaching, it's time to think about YOUR collections and comparing notes with your colleagues from around the map library world.
    For ALA 2022 we'll be meeting at:
    Washington Convention Center, 204C
    Sunday, June 26: 1-2pm EDT
    38.905,-77.024 (give or take)
    Please send any topics you'd like to be added to the agenda to me and I'll make sure they are included. Potential topics include, but in no way are limited to:
    • Collection storage
    • Shared collections
    • Collections and outreach
    • Collection development strategies
    • How you go about acquiring new maps (or old maps) for the collection
    • Thoughts on The Cartographers, by Peng Shepherd -- it involves library security, after all
    So yes, topics are wide open. Anything that might be of mutual interest on the topic.
    Thanks,
    Craig
    Craig Haggit
    Senior Special Collections Librarian, Western History and Genealogy Dept.
    Denver Public Library
    10 West 14th Ave. Parkway
    Denver, CO  80204
    720-865-1813


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    Craig Haggit
    Sr Special Collections Librarian
    Denver Public Library
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