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Nick
Millea
Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG,
UK
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287119
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International Cooperation- Excuse for
posting at several list
Map and Geography Libraries and librarians
have several places to cooperate in more or less formal
ways.
We have local, regional, national and
international agencies such as Liber, ICA, SLA, ALA , ICHC etc and also on a
specific library basis IFLA with its subsection Geography and Map Library
Section.
International cooperation is absolutely
necessary but the limited number of staff in Map Collections makes it important
to choose only the necessary organizations to work in.
So first question- do we still need this
IFLA Geography and Map Library Section.
It has been extremely difficult just to have
40 members of the section, difficult to have standing committee members and even
more difficult to find officers that have the time to work in between
conferences.
It seems that only a very limited number of
Map Collections wants to spend work here.
As new chair of the section since august, I
therefore would propose to close the section and find other ways of
international cooperation.
The former officers have spent so many hours
in just getting people to become members and then many more hours to make a
program at each years programme but with very few people
attending.
There must be better ways of having
international cooperation.
Second questions to head of map collections
or staff:
How could and should we organize cooperation
in the future ?
Is Maps-L, Lis-Maps, Maps Hist list enough
?
Best regards
Henrik
Dupont
Chair
of Geography and Map Library Section IFLA
Henrik
Dupont
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