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Dear all, As promised at the MCG business meeting held in Cambridge 8.9.10... If any other institution would still like to submit a report just pop it here on LIS maps... Thanks Paula Paula Williams Map Curator National Library of Scotland National Library of Scotland - BCS Map Curators' Group Report September 2010 Map reading room move The Maps Reading Room (and staff work areas) is moving, with the new room due to open on Tuesday 21 September 2010. We are staying in the same building, but will be at street level, so there will no longer be any stairs to climb! Our bright new entrance is just round the corner from the existing door. Our new postal address will be: Map Collections National Library of Scotland Causewayside Building 159 Causewayside Edinburgh EH9 1PH Scotland, UK Notable acquisitions * Dighton, Robert. Geography bewitched!, or, a droll caricature map of Scotland. London : Printed for Bowles & Carver, No.69 St. Paul's Church Yard, [ca. 1795] * Phinn, Thomas. A new and accurate map of Scotland : drawn from surveys and the most approved maps & charts and regulated by Astron[omical] observations in which are delineated the routes of the several armies in 1745 & 1746 and the Pr[ince]s secret course by land and water after the battle of Culloden. [Edinburgh : Printed by Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran , 1758] * Thornton, John. [Coasting pilot.] London : John Thornton at the signe of England, Scotland and Ireland in the Minories, [ca. 1706] Bartholomew Archive Project 82 volumes of the Bartholomew Archive Printing Record were conserved (1877-1935) to to May 2010, and cataloguing has reached volume 40 (1877-1904) - this work will continue until November 2013. The printing record is now searchable via the project's website http://digital.nls.uk/bartholomew/index.html New website additions * enhanced viewer for all maps on the website http://www.nls.uk/maps * new historical maps API, allowing out-of-copyright maps of Great Britain to be used in other websites and mashups http://geo.nls.uk/maps/api Research & Collaborative Projects * In March 2010, Dr Carolyn Anderson was awarded her PhD for her thesis on Constructing the Military Landscape: Board of Ordnance Maps and Plans of Scotland c.1707- c.1815. * AddressingHistory is a six-month project (April - Sept 2010), funded by JISC in collaboration with EDINA to create a tool to combine data from digitised historical Scottish Post Office Directories with mapping from the same period. http://edina.ac.uk/projects/addressinghistory_summary.html * Visualising Urban Geographies is a 15 month collaborative project which aims to bring together data provided by Professor Richard Rodger with maps provided by the NLS to create an online resource showing the spatial character and historical development of Edinburgh. The objective is also to enable others - students, academics and the public - to use open source tools for related web-applications to reveal spatial characteristics of their own cities. http://geo.nls.uk/urbhist/index.html Staff News The Map division has been merged into the Manuscript & Map Collections Division under the leadership of Robin Smith. Chris Fleet's appointment as temporary Map Collections Manager ended in March. Laragh Quinney (Map Services Manager) returned from maternity leave in April. Jenny Parkerson (Map assistant) is currently on maternity leave. *********************************************************************** Visit the National Library of Scotland online at www.nls.uk *********************************************************************** Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This communication is intended for the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the Information Services Helpdesk on +44 131 623 3789 or [log in to unmask] and delete this e-mail. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Library of Scotland. The National Library of Scotland is a registered Scottish charity. Scottish Charity No. SC011086. This message is subject to the Data Protection Act 1998 and Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and has been scanned by Webroot. *********************************************************************** Follow us on Twitter for twice-weekly updates. Become our fan on Facebook and keep up-to-date that way too.