We are just mailing out our July issue of Cairt - the Scottish Maps
Forum newsletter.
The main highlights in this issue:
* Pont maps of Scotland incorporated into UNESCO Memory of the World
Register - and on exhibition (July-August 2010)
http://www.nls.uk/exhibitions/treasures/index.html#pont
* Report on our User Survey and the move of the map reading room in
September
* Bartholomew Archive project - 3 year funding extension, new Printing
Record search interface, and oral history project:
http://www.nls.uk/bartholomew
* New acquistion - an unrecorded early coasting pilot by John Thornton
* Collaborative digital mapping projects -
Visualizing Urban Geographies - new examples:
http://geo.nls.uk/urbhist/examples.html
AddressingHistory - http://addressinghistory.blogs.edina.ac.uk/
Great Britain Historical Mapping API - http://geo.nls.uk/maps/api/
* Research, publications, and forthcoming talks and events
This issue of Cairt can be read as a PDF at:
http://www.nls.uk/collections/maps/subjectinfo/cairt17.pdf
Previous issues of Cairt can all be read at:
http://www.nls.uk/collections/maps/subjectinfo/cairt.html
Chris Fleet
National Library of Scotland
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EDINBURGH
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United Kingdom.
Tel. 0131 623 3973
Fax. 0131 623 3971
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