Dear All,
This is a call for volunteers to help with checking entries in the UK Directory of Map Collections.
At the Map Curators Group AGM at the beginning of September I reported that 488 map collection entries had been transferred to the new UK Directory of Map Collections pages at http://www.cartography.org.uk/map-collections/ . Of those, 35 have been updated following a request to various mailing lists. The big challenge now is to find updated details for the remaining entries, particularly the 208 collections which haven't been updated since at least February 2000.
At the AGM members very kindly offered to help with getting in touch with these collections. To that end if you are willing to volunteer to take on 10 collections and concentrate on contacting them that would be really helpful. If you can email me on [log in to unmask] , I will coordinate so that we don't duplicate effort. If you let me know where you are based I should be able to pick out collections which are close to you geographically, at least in the first place. Once we have updates I can edit the Directory accordingly.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Clare
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Lecturer in GIS,
Faculty Academic Blended Learning Champion
Kennedy Library
Room 10.140b
School of Earth and Environment
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
Tel: 0113 343 5210
Web: http://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/people/c.gordon
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