GdC Working Group for Education

HOMEPAGE "WORKING GROUP FOR EDUCATION"

Adresses: Members of the Working Group for Education

Nick Millea (chair) 
Tel. +44(1865)28 71 19      Fax +44 (1865) 27 71 39   
nam@bodley.ox.ac.uk

Theo Bauer
Tel. +49(89)286 38-0,         Fax +49(89)286 38-623, theodor.bauer@bsb.badw-muenchen.de

Jadwiga Bzinkowska 
Tel. +48 (12) 633 63 77       Fax +48 (12) 633 09 03     
ujbzinko@cyf-kr.edu.pl

Wolfgang Crom
Tel. +49 (711) 212 43 99      Fax +49 (711) 212 44 22   wolfgang.crom@sbb.spk-berlin.de

Hossam Elkhadem
Tel. +32 (2) 519 57 42         Fax +32 (2) 519 57 42
elkhadem@kbr.be

Mira Miletic Drder
Tel. +385 (1) 61 64 083       Fax +385 (1) 66661 64 186
mmiletic@nsk.hr

John Moore
Tel. +44 (141) 330 6749      Fax +44 (141) 330 4952
j.moore@lib.gla.ac.uk

Renata Solar
Tel. +386 (61) 200 11 59     Fax +386 (1) 4257 293
renata.solar@nuk.uni-lj.si

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News

Map Library online

The Map Library of the Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya (ICC) in Barcelona (Spain), went live last week with more than 5.400 maps of Catalonia, Spain and all over the world

In November 2006 a new digitization project started at the ICC: a Metis DRS2A0 scanner was bought, along with the software ContentDM from Dimema, in order to scan and make freely available on the internet all these materials. And on October 30th 2007 the Digital Map Library of the ICC went live with 5.000 antique maps organized in collections representative of geographical areas, and the whole collection of the Revista Catalana de Geografia (Catalan Geography Magazine) published between 1978 and 1996. New materials will appear on the site on a bimonthly basis.

The address is:

http://www.icc.cat/web/content/en/common/cartoteca/inici_cartoteca_ciutada.html

Carme Montaner

Cap de la Unitat de la Cartoteca de Catalunya

Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya

Parc de Montjuïc 08038 - Barcelona

www.icc.cat
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Last Progress Report

Ligue  des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBER Working Group for Education

Progress Report February 2007

Dear Colleagues,

Greetings to you all from Oxford.

Please accept my apologies for a quiet period since the Group's gathering in Paris last year.

The following information was presented at the Conference by Jürg Bühler:

A short report and demonstration on the Group's website, including the homepage with the addresses and the progress reports; the literature list; the tutorial webpage; and Who is Who in map curatorship. The Who is Who was totally revised in 2006. In co-operation with the Group for Eastern Europe new literature lists from Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Slovenia have been added. The participants of the Conference were impressed with our work and hoped that we can continue this work also in the next few years.

In my last message to the Group (August 2006), I asked two questions both relating to Jürg Bühler's forthcoming retirement:

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1) Is there a member of our group who would like to take over the excellent work undertaken by Jürg?

2) Could this person also have access to the server space we will need?

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Jürg has since provided more information, both by email, and also during a most welcome surprise visit he made to Oxford in September.

1)    Jürg's retirement:

"The latest date is the end of February 2008, but maybe I will finish earlier at the end of November 2007. It is possible that I have a project after this date, or that I will make some free webmaster tasks".

2)    Web space:

Again, a message from Jürg reporting an exchange with our former president, Jan Smits - this is Jan's text:

"I have made some additions to the GdC de LIBER website and intend to include the following message in an e-mail to the GdC-discussion list... Also note that the 'Working Group for Education' has its own liaisoned website on <http://www.maps.ethz.ch/gdc-education.html>, and the 'Working Group for Central and Eastern Europe' on <http://www.maps.ethz.ch/gdc-easteurope.html>."

"As Jürg Bühler, who maintains these websites, will retire soon, there is a request for another webmaster for this site, who has enough official backing of his/her employer and enough understanding of how to maintain a website to continue this service within his/her institution for at least some 10 years. In this way the website can be maintained and updated when necessary. Should any of you be interested please contact the webmaster juerg.buehler@library.ethz.ch. When the Working Group and the Board of the GdC de LIBER agrees, we then may move the website in the near future to maintain this service to our colleagues."

Jürg's response to this was:

"Yes, I agree with your text about the website of the Group for Education and a new webmaster. I think we need time to find this person and the new provider... I will try to update the website of our Group for Education with a new modern graphical outfit... With a CMS you will have in future a easier webmaster task and the possibility that different people can make entries in the Web pages, without knowledge in web techniques and without danger of changing the graphic design.

I hope that I can hand over the website in such a new form."

So, is there anybody prepared to take over this important job from Jürg? As you can see, we do not have much time before Jürg's retirement.

With best wishes,
Nick Millea
Chairman, Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBER Working Group for Education

PLEASE NOTE NEW EMAIL ADDRESS!!!

Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG, UK
tel:      +44 1865 287119
fax:     +44 1865 277139
email: nick.millea@ouls.ox.ac.uk
homepage: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/guides/maps/

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Last Conference (Amsterdam 2008)

Amsterdam, 22 February 2007.

Dear members of the Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBER,

Since the Paris conference in 2006, this is the first communication of the Organizing Committee of the next conference of the Liber GdC, which will be held in Amsterdam from 1 until 4 July 2008.

A leaflet has been distributed in Paris already, presenting the Amsterdam conference, including the aims and plans of the Organizing Committee. The conference is organized by the libraries of the Universiteit van Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit and Wageningen UR, the Amsterdam City Archives (the main conference venue) and the Royal Tropical Institute. Presentations, meetings, a poster session, and various events will be included in the programme. On Thursday 3 July a visit to Wageningen UR (near Arnhem) will take place, this excursion ending with the conference dinner. The post-conference excursion on Saturday 5 July, visiting i.a. the old Zuyderzee towns of Hoorn and Enkhuizen, will mark the end of the conference week.

The presentation at the meeting of the GdC members in Paris was meant to clarify the plans and to have some provisional feedback of the members attending this meeting. In the present stage of the preparations the Organizing Committee is heading towards some final decisions, as the contents of the conference and the logistics are concerned.

That’s why some more information is being provided now, and, if you have the intention to attend the next conference, you are kindly requested to respond to our queries, concerning specific subjects to be discussed and concerning accommodation logistics, especially regarding the envisaged, very unusual and exciting, ship accommodation arrangement.

A. Subjects to be discussed

The conference theme will be: The Future of the Map Library and the Map Librarian. As announced in the leaflet, the Committee has made eight proposals for more specific subjects to be discussed within this frame. In order to aggravate them to some three main subjects on which the efforts can be focused in Amsterdam, those Committee members who were attending the Paris conference have tried to elicit some favourite subjects. It was apparent that – also considering the focus of many presentations in Paris – the digital index sheet problem, and, more general, the visual online access to cartographical information, deserves more attention. So that aspect of the map librarian’s future will certainly have a prominent place. Still, the other proposed subjects were:

Planning the new map library (physical, functional); The future of the paper map library; The map librarian: curator or information specialist?; Process oriented or document oriented (map) librarianship?; The role of the map librarian in education and research: teaching cartography, the map librarian as part of the research community, the map librarian as a scientific supporter of research activities; The map librarian as a propagandist; The map librarian as a GIS practitioner.

For those who have an interest in participating in the Amsterdam conference, the Organizing Committee would like to offer this extra opportunity to vote more explicitly for two more subjects out of the alternatives presented.

The form included will serve that purpose.

With kind regards,

Jan Werner

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ARCHIVE

Progress Reports (2002-)

Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBERWorking Group for Education

Progress Report September 2005

Dear Colleagues,

Greetings to you all from a gloriously sunny Oxford.

There is little to report since my last message to the Group, but I would like to extend particular thanks to Jürg Bühler, as ever, for maintaining and expanding the website.

Recent additions to the site are as follows:

Jürg has redesigned the literature part of the site into three sections: Map Curatorship; History of Cartography; and Cartography and GIS. Access to these parts of the site can be made via: http://www.maps.ethz.ch/mapcuratorship/gdc_liber/gdc-education2

Listings by nation appear lower down the page. Thanks also to Steffi Mittenzwei, Chair of the Working Group for Central and Eastern Europe. She has forwarded literature lists supplied by Margit Tohver (Estonia) and Lucyna Szaniawska (Poland). These can also be found at: http://www.maps.ethz.ch/mapcuratorship/gdc_liber/gdc-education2

Jürg has also created a new part to the site entitled "Institutions and Working Groups for Map Curatorship". This can be found at: http://www.maps.ethz.ch/mapcuratorship/gdc_liber/gdc-education5l

Jan Smits has posted Peter Jones' report of our Cambridge conference. This can be found at: http://liber-maps.kb.nl/2004

If you have any changes to add to the "Who is Who" section, please send them to Jürg.
Details are at: http://www.maps.ethz.ch/mapcuratorship/gdc_liber/gdc-education6l

Also, any information on survey organizations will be most welcome.

With best wishes, Nick 

Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBERWorking Group for Education

Progress Report January 2005

Dear Colleagues,

Happy New Year to you all!

I do hope everybody has enjoyed the Festive Season and is happy to back in the world of maps.

Over the last month, Jürg Bühler, has, as ever, been very busy indeed. He plans to create a single literature website in general, instead of the literature lists in different languages, so for the future there would be just three literature websites:

1. An alphabetical list;
2. A thematic list;
3. A list about new and important literature.
   

Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBERWorking Group for Education

Progress Report December 2004

Dear Colleagues,

Greetings to you all from a chilly grey Oxford - exactly the same as November!
Following on from my message of 8 November, a number of members of our group have replied to me with suggestions or materials to add to our website.

1. That we should update the 'Who is Who' section of the website.
   > Wolfgang asked all LIBER members to send new information to Juerg Buehler
   > John Moore has updated the UK section with a number of amendments amongst the Scottish map curators
   > Jürg BühIer has added the address of the Iberian Map Curators' Group website (so superbly demonstrated by Carme Montaner i Garcia in Cambridge) under: "New - Information - New". This information also appears in "Who is Who", inserted beneath "Spain" in the main listing; he has done the same for similar groups in Switzerland and the United Kingdom, both listed beneath the country name in "Who is Who". Jürg asks if there are other similar groups in Europe. If you know of similar websites, please let Jürg and myself know, and they too can be added to the website.
   > Jürg also added details of last month's metadata cataloguing course held in Barcelona.
   
   
2. That we update the literature lists by nation, or make a literature > list in general;
   
   
3. That we create new lists for:
   a) new and important literature >
   b) exhibition catalogues
   c) European surveying organisations
   d) national organisations for standardisation of geographical names.
   
   Renata Solar has supplied information for Slovenia for both c) and d).
   Wolfgang Crom has also made the following suggestion: "We could also contain small references for the new and very important books or maps. Maybe, that some of our colleagues have doubt to write in English, perhaps we can make a scale of relevance or something like this". This sounds very sensible to me. Does everybody agree?
   
   Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far, and let's maintain this good start to 2004/2006. Please let either Jürg or myself know of any useful new information.
   
   So, I look forward to hearing from all of you in the near future with details of new information that can be added to our site, and wish everybody well for Christmas and the New Year. With best wishes,
   
   Nick
   
   

Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBERWorking Group for Education

Progress Report November 2004

Dear Colleagues,

Greetings to you all from a chilly grey Oxford.

Now seems like a good time to assess recent developments since our meeting in Cambridge. Firstly, let me apologise for the lack of activity on the part of our group. This is entirely my fault, so as a result we were unable to stage our traditional preliminary meeting at the start of the conference, and I am hugely indebted to Wolfgang Crom for standing in, and with no advance warning giving a presentation on our group's progress at the end of the week. Thank you very much indeed Wolfgang.

For those who could not attend the Cambridge conference, Wolfgang highlighted a number of points:

1. That we should update the 'Who is Who' section of the website. Wolfgang asked all LIBER members to send new information to Juerg Buehler;
2. That we update the literature lists by nation, or make a literature list in general;
3. That we create new lists for:
   a) new and important literature
   b) exhibition catalogues
   c) European surveying organisations
   d) national organisations for standardisation of geographical names.

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Report on the 14th Conference of the Groupe des Cartothécaries de LIBER (31st August to 4th September, Cambridge, United Kingdom)

"Map Collections and GIS or Digital Data - the death of the paper Map?"

by Peter Jones with: Listing of cartographic items displayed for visit of LIBER GdC Conference, 2004, to RGS Collected, arranged, and listed by Francis Herbert (Curator of Maps, RGS-IBG) http://liber-maps.kb.nl/2004RGS.html

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QUESTIONNAIRE: INQUIRY INTO MAP USE AND USER HABITS IN EUROPE

1 June to 1 September 2003

The LIBER Groupe des Cartothécaires endeavours to improve the exchange of information between European map collections, thereby also hoping to improve their means of functioning. To achieve these goals, the Groupe organises two-yearly conferences and in between these conferences gathers information and data, which can then be discussed and acted upon. We hope you will assist us by completing this questionnaire.

Online questionnaires

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Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBER: Working Group for Education Meeting held at the Helsinki University Library: 3 September 2002

Minutes of the meeting

1. "Who is who in Map Librarianship"
http://www.maps.ethz.ch/mapcuratorship/gdc_liber/gdc-education6.html

2. Promotion of the Group's goals amongst those without access to the Internet.

3. Making non-English, French or German texts available on the website.

4. There remains a lack of progress towards establishing minimum standards.

5. To advertise and promote the website, especially to countries which have yet to be fully embraced by the Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBER, and to small part-time map collections in all countries.

• Jürg wished to see all four parts of the site become "more hittable" - in other words, for the site's address to be placed strategically on key websites. It was decided to involve Roelof Oddens' expertise on this matter. [When approached, Roelof agreed to help with this].
• All members of the Working Group for Education should be encouraged to search for new URLs to be added to the website.
• All members of the Working Group for Education should use the All Members facility which Jürg has made available on the website when wishing to communicate issues likely to be of interest to the whole group.

6. To intensify communications between this Working Group and representatives of distinct language areas.

7. To install a "mailbox" on the website, inviting enquirers to submit ideas for items they would wish to see on the site.

8. To develop the GdC website both within and beyond the Working Group for Education.

1. Contact addresses for all Working Group for Central and Eastern Europe members to be made available on the site;
2. Offered to assist the Working Group for Education in the preparation of literature lists;
3. Working Group for Central and Eastern Europe will submit reports on literature lists in March 2003, September 2003, and March 2004.

9. To circulate a letter addressed to all National Correspondents inviting them to co-operate with the Group's goals.

• Mira Miletic Drder (National Library of Croatia);
• Renata Solar (National Library of Slovenia)

10. Additional issues

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Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBER Working Group for Education 2000-2002 Progress Report by Nick Millea (August 2002)

The goals our Working Group established in København in 2000

1. "Who is who in Map Librarianship" -
http://www.maps.ethz.ch/gdc-education6.html

Progress:
JB has developed the two "Who is Who" websites:

1. List of nations (name list) - http://www.maps.ethz.ch/mapcuratorship/gdc_liber/gdc-education6.html
   There is a direct e-mail connection for all names.
2. 2. Subject list - http://www.maps.ethz.ch/mapcuratorship/gdc_liber/gdc-education7.html
   All entries have a direct link to the required name in the name list (with address, e-mail and all specialities of the person).

JB has also integrated the questionnaire into the website so new entries can be made electronically. Working Group members were invited to take a look at the "Who is who"(especially their own national entries) and feed back any comments, changes or corrections to JB. We were also encouraged to circulate details of the "Who is who" to our national colleagues in the hope that more map librarians would add their names and specialities.

All Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBER members were contacted to remind them to complete the questionnaire, for which there was a steady response, with revised or additional entries from Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Italy, the Netherlands and Slovenia.

2. Promotion of the Group's goals amongst those without access to the Internet.

In København, Group members were keen to disseminate information, especially in Russia, Spain and Portugal. The Group in general were keen to target Italy, using the soon to be published IFLA directory of map libraries.

Progress:
NM made copies available of our København discussions to all Italian map collections listed in the 4th edition of the Directory and responses were received from three collections. Italian texts were requested for inclusion on the website.
NM also wrote to all National Correspondents, encouraging them to disseminate news of our Group's activities to their members, and also to enlist feedback. Our website was also advertised.

3. Making non-English, French or German texts available on the website.

Situation in 2000:
The list had references to texts in Chinese, Dutch and Hungarian. Colleagues with materials in other languages were encouraged to forward information to JB. Those languages identified as priority targets were Italian, Russian and Spanish.

Progress:
No texts in other languages have been added since København.

4. There remains a lack of progress towards establishing minimum standards.

It was agreed that some sort of structure should be put in place to disseminate information to part-time map curators, small map collections, and large collections without map librarians.

Progress:
No official progress from our Group, but MGM has reported regularly on Spanish developments, for example the 2001 publication, La Documentatción Cartográfica, prepared for library schools, and viewed by WC as "a shining example for comparative studies from other nations". MGM also noted from the 20th International Cartographic Conference in Beijing, that in the first volume devoted to the proceedings, the opening topic has the title: Education and training in cartography, consisting of 25 papers.

5. To advertise and promote the website.

To advertise and promote the website, especially to countries which have yet to be fully embraced by the Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBER, and to small part-time map collections in all countries.

Progress:
Much of this goal overlaps with goal 9. Our Group's plans to contact all non-GdC map collections listed in the IFLA Directory with details of our website proved over-ambitious.

6. To intensify communications between this Working Group and representatives of distinct language areas.

Progress:
MGM active in Spain. New members joined the Group: Piero Falchetta (Italy) and Concepció Isern (Spain).

7. To install a "mailbox" on the website.

To install a "mailbox" on the website, inviting enquirers to submit ideas for items they would wish to see on the site.

Progress: Completed by JB. In each of our four basic areas of the site (Homepage, Literature, Who is who, Campus) a mailbox has been installed with three links to:
- the Chairman (NM);
- the Webmaster (JB);
- all members of the Working Group.

8. To develop the GdC website both within and beyond the Working Group for Education.

Progress:
Would it be a good idea to contact the Working Group for Central and Eastern Europe to find out whether they would wish to add information to the website?

GdC President Jan Smits issued an informative email to various international cartographic listservs in late 2000, highlighting the work of our group. Subscribers to MapHist, Maps-L, Lis-Maps and Liber-gdc were informed of the website, and further links to national progress reports, and a full København report. A later mailing from Jan announced the presence of papers from København being added to the website. JB also integrated new links for the literature list and the campus list, and created a "useful links" section in our homepage (map collections, map curatorship, institutions, map searches, etc.).

9. To circulate a letter addressed to all National Correspondents

To circulate a letter addressed to all National Correspondents inviting them to co-operate with the Group's goals.

Progress:
Letter sent by NM from which there have been no replies.

Other developments

NM distributed a monthly update bulletin on matters of interest to the Group. Unfortunately there have been no updates since early 2002.

MGM updated the Group on conferences, publications and general educational activities in Spain.

JB has constantly been updating the website.

Nick Millea
Chairman, Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBER Working Group for Education

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Correspondence 2000-2002 (Chairman's reports and other information)

Nick Millea, 30-07-2002
Here is a message from Chris Fleet concerning our Group's possible activities in Helsinki:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I was also wanting to ask whether you have had any further thoughts about the Working Group for Education session at Helsinki? Pirkko is still pulling everything together into a programme, and so things are quite flexible - you can have as long or as short as you'd like! Steffi is planning to report on the WG for C&E Europe, and I think Ludmila Kildushevskaya is planning to give a paper on the long-term preservation problems of cartographic materials in Russia.
I do think that it would be useful if there can be some report from the Education Group, if only to highlight the additions to the Group's webpages since the last conference. If you like, there could be scope for a wider discussion on the Group's future remit and tasks. Are we being unrealistic in assuming our members have time for these activities? We obviously don't want to discourage co-operative work relating to Education between GdC members, but we all have finite amounts of time. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
With best wishes, Nick Millea

Roelof Oddens, 05-07-2002
Dear colleagues,
You already can make a virtual tour in Helsinki: http://www.virtualhelsinki.net/ (Finnish) http://www.virtualhelsinki.net/english/index.html (English)
See you in Helsinki
With best wishes, Nick Millea

Nick Millea, 15-04-2002
Dear All,
I have been asked by the programme committee whether we require time to make a public presentation on behalf of the Working Group for Education during the Helsinki conference. My feelings are that the Group's main purpose, to set up a website, was undertaken by Juerg and the team during 1998-2000, and this was reported at our last session in Kobenhavn. Few major developments have occurred since, so any presentation in 2002 would simply be a repeat of Juerg's 2000 presentation. What do you all think?
With best wishes, Nick

Nick Millea, 04-01-2002
Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBER Working Group for Education
Progress report January 2002
Dear Colleagues,
Happy New Year to you all! Now we have entered a new year, it seems like an opportune moment to examine the goals our Working Group established in Kobenhavn in 2000, and to consider how we might make progress in achieving these goals prior to our next meeting in Helsinki.
1. "Who is who in Map Librarianship" http://www.maps.ethz.ch/mapcuratorship/gdc_liber/gdc-education6.html
Progressing from the excellent work already undertaken since our 1998 meeting, I believe members of our group should continue to advertise this website amongst their national colleagues, and hope that more questionnaires will be completed.
2. Promotion of the Group's goals amongst those without access to the Internet.
In Kobenhavn, Group members were keen to disseminate information, especially in Russia, Spain and Portugal. The Group in general were keen to target Italy, using the soon to be published IFLA directory of map libraries. [NM made copies available of our Kobenhavn discussions to all Italian map collections listed in the Directory; response was received from three collections].
3. Making non-English, French or German texts available on the website.
[The list currently has references to texts in Chinese, Dutch and Hungarian. Colleagues with materials in other languages please forward information to Juerg. I believe it would be particularly helpful for additional reference lists to be made available in Italian, Russian and Spanish - any volunteers?]
4. There remains a lack of progress towards establishing minimum standards.
It was agreed that some sort of structure should be put in place to disseminate information to part-time map curators, small map collections, and large collections without map librarians. Theo suggested "a chain of incentives" to disseminate information around Europe, targeting people by country, and keeping them informed. [Are there any volunteers for this role?]
5. To advertise and promote the website, especially to countries which have yet to be fully embraced by the LIBER GdC, and to small part-time map collections in all countries.
[Will it be possible to contact all non-GdC map collections listed in the IFLA Directory with details of our website? Are there any volunteers?]
6. To intensify communications between this Working Group and representatives of distinct language areas.
[Again, are there any volunteers?]
7. To install a "mailbox" on the website, inviting enquirers to submit ideas for items they would wish to see on the site.
[Juerg has completed this task]
8. To develop the GdC website both within and beyond the Working Group for Education.
[Would it be a good idea to contact the Working Group for Central and Eastern Europe to find out whether they would wish to add information to the website?]
9. To circulate a letter addressed to all National Correspondents inviting them to co-operate with the Group's goals.
[This has been done by Nick. There have been no replies].
So, we have nine target areas. Do any other Group members have further suggestions? If there are any volunteers happy to work on some of the tasks identified, please contact me.
With best wishes for 2002, Nick

Nick Millea, 04-12-2001
Ligue des Bibliotheques Europeennes de Recherche Groupe des Cartothecaires de LIBER Working Group for Education
Progress report December 2001
Dear Colleagues,
This past month has again been quiet for our Group, so let me take this opportunity to wish everybody a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Once into 2002 I think it would be a good idea to consider the proposals we made in Kobenhavn in readiness for our next meeting in Helsinki, so please put your "thinking caps" on - [apologies for such an "English" phrase].
With best wishes, Nick

Nick Millea, 05-11-2001
Ligue des Bibliotheques Europeennes de Recherche Groupe des Cartothecaires de LIBER Working Group for Education
Progress report November 2001
Dear Colleagues,
This past month has again been quiet for our Group, but Montserrat has some information to convey. On 19 September 2001, an exhibition with the title : "The maps of Catalonia during two hundred years: 1600-1800", opened in the ICC exhibition room. It was prepared on the occasion of the International Conference of the "Association Internationale de Bibliophilie" held in Barcelona, 15-22 September. The exhibition closed on 11 October. Many people visited the exhibition. About 1000 until today [10 October]. We have published a catalogue with the reproduction of all the maps documented after consulting most of the important cartographic reference works (with two preliminaries studies by Montserrat herself). Thank you Montserrat.
With best wishes, as ever, Nick

Nick Millea, 04-09-2001
Ligue des Bibliotheques Europeennes de Recherche Groupe des Cartothecaires de LIBER Working Group for Education
Progress report September 2001
Dear Colleagues,
This month's report follows on from Wolfgang Crom's observations reported last month after his visit to the International History of Cartography Conference in Madrid. Montserrat Galera i Monegal has more information to add on the publications commended by Wolfgang last month. Montserrat adds: "As Wolfgang Crom informed you, finally the book " La Documentacion cartografica. Tratamiento, gestion y uso" was published last July.
On another side, the International Congress in Madrid was very successful with some important papers and important poster sessions. On behalf of this Institute, [Institut Cartografic de Catalunya] Carme Montaner read a paper concerning Catalan cartography during the 19th century. Myself, Carme and Anna M. Casassas participated in a poster session in which the last volume of the cycle of doctorate courses was displayed, together with the rest of the volumes in the series published since 1990. The latest title is: APPROACHES AND CHALLENGES IN A WORLDWIDE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY. The authors are David Woodward, Catherine Delano-Smith and Cordell Yee. I think that is an excellent essay. I can [also] tell you that in the recent 20th International Cartographic Conference in Beijing, China (August, 6-10 2001) in the first volume devoted to the proceedings, the topic number 1 has the title: EDUCATION AND TRAINING CARTOGRAPHY. It consists of 25 papers. The exact bibliographic reference of this chapter is: PROCEEDINGS. MAPPING THE 21ST CENTURY. Vol. 1, pp. 69-192.
If you need additional information, I have the five volumes." So thank you very much, Montserrat, for the information. Otherwise, there is nothing else to report.
With best wishes for the rest of the summer, Nick

Nick Millea, 07-08-2001
Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBER Working Group for Education
Progress report August 2001
Dear Colleagues,
This month we have some observations from our colleague Wolfgang Crom, who last month attended the International History of Cartography Conference in Madrid. Wolfgang reports that he bought "La Documentatción Cartográfica", finding it to be "a very useful and important book, [with] a good classification and structure". Wolfgang adds that "the real problem is: this important book is written in Spanish and therefore not readable for the majority. What a pity, because it should be a shining example for comparative studies from other nations." So congratulations to Montserrat and her colleagues on this excellent publication. Otherwise, there is nothing else to report.
With best wishes for a pleasant summer, Nick

Nick Millea, 04-07-2001
Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBER Working Group for Education
Progress report July 2001
Dear Colleagues,
This month we have news from Montserrat Galera i Monegal in Barcelona, who has reported the following items of interest to our Group: 1) 19th International Conference on the History of Cartography, currently being held in Madrid (30 June - 6 July). Today (4 July), at 19:00 sees the opening of the exhibition "History of the teaching of Geography". There is an accompanying catalogue. 2) The latest information concerning the doctorate courses on History of Cartography organised by the Cartoteca de Catalunya (Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya): At the moment, the last volume of the cycle is being printed - Title: "Approaches and challenges in a worldwide history of cartography project" by David Woodward, Catherine Delano-Smith and Cordell Yee. The cycle began in 1990. This last volume, together with the other volumes, are to be exhibited for the first time in a poster session held tomorrow (5 July) at the Conference in Madrid. 3) In a similar state of publication, but not under Montserrat's direct responsibility, a "Manual de Documentación Cartográfica" is being prepared, specifically designed for schools of librarianship. Thank you very much indeed Montserrat for this most useful information, and let's hope the Madrid Conference has been a success.
With best wishes for a pleasant summer, Nick

Nick Millea, 04-06-2001
Ligue des Bibliotheques Europeennes de Recherche Groupe des Cartothecaires de LIBER Working Group for Education
Progress report June 2001
Dear Colleagues, Another very quiet month, I'm afraid. Do let me know if you have any news for the Group.
With best wishes for a pleasant summer, Nick

Nick Millea, 04-05-2001
Ligue des Bibliotheques Europeennes de Recherche Groupe des Cartothecaires de LIBER Working Group for Education
Progress report May 2001
Dear Colleagues,
There is nothing of great interest to report to the Group concerning activities over the past month. Our activity levels have been rather low. If you have any extra comments you would like to make to me about our Group in general, then please feel free to contact me.
With best wishes, Nick

Nick Millea, 10-04-2001
Ligue des Bibliotheques Europeennes de Recherche Groupe des Cartothecaires de LIBER Working Group for Education
Progress report April 2001
Dear Colleagues,
There is very little to report to the Group concerning activities over the past month. Two items may be of interest though.
* Jan Smits announced the latest additions of papers from the Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Mapcurator's Group 2000 to the GdC-website: "Thanks to a powerful homecomputer and spare time I have added the following articles (which are the Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Mapcurator's Group 2000) to the GdC-websites: Full-text articles (in alphabetical order of author) http://www.kb.nl/infolev/liber/intro.htm#art BIBLIOGRAPHY (arranged by subject) http://www.kb.nl/infolev/liber/overview.htm#subject The articles are recognizable from the "NEW" image.
Bauer, Theo and Jurg Buhler, Wolfgang Crom (2000): Map 'webucation': using the World Wide Web for the continuing education of map librarians
Buhler, Jurg (2000): Map collections and the Internet: some ideas about various online map services, based on the ETH map collection in Zurich
Campbell, Tony (2000): Where are map libraries heading? Some route maps for the digital future
Fleet, Chris (2000): Distributing images and information over the Web - a case study of the Pont manuscript maps
Kotelnikova, N., and L. Kildushevskaja (2000): Electronic maps and atlases in the Russian State Library and the Russian National Library
Morris, Barbara and David Medyckyj-Scott and Peter Burnhill (2000): EDINA Digimap: New developments in the Internet mapping and data service for the UK Higher Education community
Oddens, Roelof (2000): Four years of Oddens' Bookmarks: The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping
Smits, Jan (2000): Can a map be a geographic information retrieval tool?
Stevenson, Bill (2000): Servicing Map Users at Aalborg University Library"
* As Chairman of our group, I contacted all those Italian map collections with email addresses listed in IFLA's 4th edition of "World Directory of Map Collections". Piero Falchetta of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venezia, has expressed an interest to be kept informed, so I have added him to our mailing list. If you have any extra comments you would like to make to me about our Group in general, then please feel free to contact me.
With best wishes, Nick

Nick Millea, 06-03-2001
Ligue des Bibliotheques Europeennes de Recherche Groupe des Cartothecaires de LIBER Working Group for Education
Progress report March 2001
Dear Colleagues,
The past month has been our Group's busiest for some time. I shall give a brief description of what has occurred since the last message.
* Our Group has a new member from the Biblioteca de Catalunya - her name is Concepcio Isern.
* As ever, Jurg Buhler has been very busy, delivering the following additions to our website: Integrating the questionnaire into the website, so everybody can access it from our site's "Who is Who" section; In each of our four basic sites (Homepage, Literature, Who is who, Campus) is a mailbox installed with three links to: the Chairman - (Nick Millea); the Webmaster - (Jurg Buhler); all members of the Working Group. (Please have a look and let Jurg and I know what you think).
* All Groupe des Cartothecaires de LIBER members were contacted to remind them to complete our "Who is who" questionnaire. There has been a steady response, with revised or additional entries from Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, the Netherlands and Slovenia. If you have any extra comments you would like to make to me about our Group in general, then please feel free to contact me.
With best wishes, Nick

Nick Millea, 19-02-2001
Dear Colleagues,
A reminder that LIBER's Groupe des Cartothecaires Working Group for Education has a section on its website entitled "Who is Who in Map Librarianship". If you would like to add your name and skills to this list, then it is possible to find a blank questionnaire at: http://www.maps.ethz.ch/gdc-education8.html To view the full listing, take a look at: http://www.maps.ethz.ch/gdc-education6.html
With best wishes, Nick

Nick Millea, 06-02-2001
Ligue des Bibliotheques Europeennes de Recherche Groupe des Cartothecaires de LIBER Working Group for Education
Progress report February 2001
Dear Colleagues,
Unfortunately there is very little to report over the last month. There have been limited responses to my message of 22 January, in which we re-examined the goals set by our Working Group at our meetings in Kobenhavn. If you have any extra comments you would like to make to me about our group in general, then please feel free to contact me.
With best wishes, Nick

Nick Millea, 22-01-2001
Dear Colleagues,
Now we have entered a new year, it seems like an opportune moment to examine the goals our Working Group established in Kobenhavn on 27 June, and to consider how we might start to make progress in achieving these goals.
1. "Who is who in Map Librarianship" http://www.maps.ethz.ch/mapcuratorship/gdc_liber/gdc-education6.html Progressing from the excellent work already undertaken since our 1998 meeting, I believe members of our group should continue to advertise this website amongst their national colleagues, and hope that more questionnaires will be completed. [Wolfgang - are there any online questionnaires available for colleagues to complete?]
2. Promotion of the Group's goals amongst those without access to the Internet. In Kobenhavn, Group members were keen to disseminate information, especially in Russia, Spain and Portugal. The Group in general were keen to target Italy, using the soon to be published IFLA directory of map libraries. [I will make copies available of our Kobenhavn discussions to all Italian map collections listed in the Directory - NM].
3. Making non-English, French or German texts available on the website. [I am not aware that any texts in other languages have been added since our meeting. Colleagues, are there any plans for developments?]
4. There remains a lack of progress towards establishing minimum standards. It was agreed that some sort of structure should be put in place to disseminate information to part-time map curators, small map collections, and large collections without map librarians. Theo suggested "a chain of incentives" to disseminate information around Europe, targetting people by country, and keeping them informed. [Are there any volunteers for this role?]
5. To advertise and promote the website, especially to countries which have yet to be fully embraced by the LIBER GdC, and to small part-time map collections in all countries. [Will it be possible to contact all non-GdC map collections listed in the IFLA Directory with details of our website? Are there any volunteers?]
6. To intensify communications between this Working Group and representatives of distinct language areas. [Again, are there any volunteers?]
7. To install a "mailbox" on the website, inviting enquirers to submit ideas for items they would wish to see on the site. [Juerg has already completed this task - congratulations!]
8. To develop the GdC website both within and beyond the Working Group for Education. [Would it be a good idea to contact the Working Group for Central and Eastern Europe to find out whether they would wish to add information to the website?]
9. To circulate a letter addressed to all National Correspondents inviting them to co-operate with the Group's goals. [This has been done by Nick. There have been no replies].
So, we have nine target areas. Do any other Group members have further suggestions? If there are any volunteers happy to work on some of the tasks identified, please contact me.
With best wishes, Nick

Nick Millea, 04-01-2001
Ligue des Bibliotheques Europeennes de Recherche Groupe des Cartothecaires de LIBER Working Group for Education
Progress report January 2001
Dear Colleagues,
Let me take this opportunity to wish you all a happy New Year, and hopefully an eventful 2001 for our Working Group. Unfortunately there is very little to report since the last general message in November 2000.
Jan Smits issued an informative email to various international cartographic listservs in December, which highlighted the work of our group. Subscribers to "MapHist", "Maps-L", "Lis-Maps", and our very own "Liber-gdc" lists were treated to the following message: Through the site of the European Working Group for Mapcuratorship (http://www.kb.nl/infolev/liber/intro.htm) the following documents are made available: Progress reports 1998-2000 of 16 countries (http://www.kb.nl/infolev/liber/intro.htm#pro1998) Via "Overview 1978-2000" the "Report on the 12th conference of the Groupe des Cartothecaires de LIBER, 15 June - 1 July 2000, Kobenhavn, Denmark" by the Secretary Chris Fleet (http://www.kb.nl/infolev/liber/2000.html) In the first quarter 2001 the articles resulting from this conference will be added to the site. Jan Smits President Groupe des Cartothecaires de LIBER If you have any extra comments you would like to make to me about our group in general, then please feel free to contact me. I intend to review our Kobenhavn "goals" later this month, with the intention of making progress on them during 2001.
With best wishes, Nick

Nick Millea, 06-11-2000
Ligue des Bibliotheques Europeennes de Recherche Groupe des Cartothecaires de LIBER Working Group for Education
Progress report November 2000
Dear Colleagues,
I am afraid to say that there is very little to report since my last general message of August 2000. Jurg has updated the "Who is who" page on our website at: http://www.maps.ethz.ch/gdc-education6.html Please take a look at it (especially your own national entries) and feed back any comments, changes or corrections to Jurg. It is vital that we keep this page as up to date as possible. Please keep Jurg updated with any news on new links which you feel will benefit the home page - not just for the "Who is who", but for other parts too. I am sure you will all agree that Jurg has done an excellent job, and join me in congratulating him on his superb effort. If you have any extra comments you would like to make to me about our group in general, then please feel free to contact me.
With best wishes, Nick

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Groupe des Cartothécaires de LIBER: Working Group for EducationMeeting held at the Kongelige Bibliotek, Kobenhavn: 27 June 2000by Nick Millea (preliminary version, July 21, 2000)

Minutes of the meeting

Group members present:

Jürg commenced by announcing the format of the morning's meeting:

1. A report of the Working Group for Education's activities since the 1998 Kraków meeting;
2. An introduction to the Group's website;
3. Theo Bauer's proposals for new goals for the next two years;
4. The election of a new Chairman
   
   

1. A report of the Working Group for Education's activities since the 1998 Kraków meeting

Jürg made a Powerpoint presentation which demonstrated the three principal areas of progress:

• Minimum standards for post-educational courses in map curatorship;
• Who is who in map librarianship;
• The Internet platform for literature list in different languages.

On the subject of standards there was no definitive result, but progress had been made by delivering the websites (literature, learning programs). Jürg felt the Group had no active leader in this area and wondered whether we might seek out extra advice from non-Group members.

Turning to goals, Jürg asked whether we should continue to pursue them, and if so, how?

Theo Bauer, Wolfgang Crom and Markus Heinz were congratulated on their delivery of Who is who in map librarianship, the results of a September 1999 questionnaire seeking information about individuals and their specialist fields of knowledge. A satisfactory response was reported, with Wolfgang arranging the replies into two searchable categories - nation and subject. Wolfgang planned to distribute further questionnaires to those delegates who had yet to respond. He also had a hard copy version, copies of which would be made available on request. Theo urged that all map library colleagues be encouraged to complete questionnaires.

2. An introduction to the Group's website

Jürg reported on the Internet platform, targetting the three specific areas identified at Kraków: history of cartography; GIS; and map librarianship in general. Jürg's tasks had been to both create an Internet platform, and to generate an integrated literature list, both of which he had achieved with considerable flair. The Internet platform has delivered four major items:

1. The Group's homepage, including our programme, activities and contact addresses;
2. Literature for map librarians;
3. Who is who in map librarianship;
4. The Groupe des Cartothécaires campus - learning programmes, tutorials and courses.

A general discussion followed. The Group felt we could usefully employ the GdC listserv to disseminate ideas. It would also be necessary to promote the Group's goals amongst those without access to the Internet. Montserrat agreed to disseminate information in Spain, Italy and Portugal, while the Group in general were keen to target Italy, using the soon to be published IFLA directory of map libraries. Montserrat agreed to help make Spanish texts available on the website, while Ludmila was prepared to do the same with Russian.

3. Proposals for new goals for the next two years

There remains a lack of progress towards establishing minimum standards. It was agreed that some sort of structure should be put in place to disseminate information to part-time map curators, small map collections, and large collections without map librarians. Theo suggested "a chain of incentives" to disseminate information around Europe, targetting people by country, and keeping them informed.

Some precise goals to be presented to the Thursday (29 June) meeting were however agreed.

• Goal 1:
  - To advertise and promote the website, especially to countries which have yet to be fully embraced by the LIBER GdC, and to small part-time map collections in all countries;
  - To intensify communications between this Working Group and representatives of distinct language areas;
  - To install a "mailbox" on the website, inviting enquirers to submit ideas for what they would wish to see on the site; Texts in as many languages as possible.

• Goal 2:
  To develop the GdC website both within and beyond the Working Group for Education.

Nick agreed to draft and circulate a letter addressed to all National Correspondents inviting them to co-operate with the Group's goals. He also agreed to speak to GdC President Jan Smits, about the future rôle of National Correspondents.

4. The election of a new Chairman

After a short discussion, Nick agreed to take over as the Group's Chairman. Jürg was thanked for his considerable efforts over the past two years, and he kindly agreed to continue as the Group's webmaster.

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Program 1998/1999

Decided on the 11th conference in Kraków, Poland, in September 1998
The Working Group discussed giving itself a new mandate:

• The Working Group for Education should elaborate minimum standards for post educational courses in Map Curatorship in order to forward educational projects in the respective language areas.
  

• The Working Group would set up an Internet platform for a list of general reference works in different languages concerning the topics "History of Cartography", "GIS" and "Map Lirarianship".
  

• Markus Heinz made the proposition of establishing additionally a "Who is who in LIBER Groupe des Cartothécaires" on this platform.
  

• Also it should be helpful having distributed a questionnaire among members in order to find out about special knowledges of the members and whether anybody would be prepared to teach others in these fields.

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Activities 1998-2000

1. Who is Who in Map Curatorship (Discussion round, July 1999)

Introduction

The Working Group for Education in the LIBER Groupe des Cartothécaires has compiled a "Who's who" of professionals, working in map libraries and similar institutions. Its aim is to provide information about individuals and their special fields of knowledge serving as a guide to find an address for any particular problem on a more personal and private level and to supplement the discussion-list already in existence.

We feel that especially in times of major developments in map curatorship, influenced by rapid changes in cartography and geographical information systems, it is becoming increasingly important to share experience and knowledge on a wider European range. The Working Group has distributed the "Who's who" both electronically (within the homepage of the LIBER GdC) and in hard copy to those without access to the World Wide Web.

Please distribute the attached questionnaires to all collegues in your map collection and return them back either by mail or e-mail to:

Wolfgang Crom, wolfgang.crom@sbb.spk-berlin.de
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 8
D-10117 Berlin, Germany

Thanks for participation.
Jürg Bühler, Theo Bauer, Wolfgang Crom

For example:

2. GIS-discussion forum for libraries As this seems important enough for current practise Jan Smits forward this message from MAPS-L:

• GIS4LIB Information File: GIS4LIB is an email list for discussion of issues relating to geographic information systems (GIS) and libraries, whether academic, private, corporate, etc. Any issues related to GIS and libraries can be discussed, such as "How do I ...;" "Where can I find ...;" "What do I need to do .;" "I would like to share ...." Topics may include discussion of hardware, software, data acquisition, licensing, collection development, etc.
• To subscribe to the list, send email to listproc@u.washington.edu
  and in the body of your message include subscribe gis4lib Firstname Lastname
• To submit any questions or other materials to the group, send e-mail to gis4lib@u.washington.edu
• To remove your name from the discussion list, send e-mail to listproc@u.washington.edu and in the body of your message include only signoff gis4lib
• For questions not intended for the entire list, contact the list owner by sending e-mail to jnstone@u.washington.edu Jenny Stone (GIS Librarian * Map Collection University of Washington Libraries Box 352900 * Seattle, WA 98195-2900 phone: 206.543.9392)

Telephone - +44 141 330 6749 Fax - +44 141 330 4952 Email - j.moore@lib.gla.ac.uk