Browsing University Libraries by Type "Article"
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2021 (2021-02-09)
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2008-08-20)Place names are the most common way we identify geographic features. When place names are unambiguous, they can georeference features, locating them uniquely on the globe. The problem with place names is that they are often ...
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(Art Libraries Society of North America, 2010-05-15)Often university libraries or archive/special collections house large fine art and photographic collections by African American and Latino artists. These collections are frequently hidden due to inadequate funding to ...
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(The Conversation, 2019-03-20)Cataloging and classification are critical to any library. Without them, finding materials would be impossible. However, there are biases that can result in patrons not getting the materials they need. This article illustrates ...
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(2013-02-17)A guide to the books, articles, plays, music and other literary material mentioned in the fiction of Louis L'Amour.
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2006-02-14)This article discusses David Y. Allen, "The So-Called Velasco Map: A Case of Forgery?" (Coordinates, Series A, no. 5).
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(Geoscience Information Society, 2012)
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(1976-12-25)
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2005-10-05)This article reviews the recent history of journal publishing in the the fields of cartography, GIS, history of cartography, and related subjects. The impact of the Internet and Web-based publishing on cartographic journals ...
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(Pergamon Press Ltd., 1979)In the spring of 1971 some 8 million refugees crossed from Bangladesh, then East Pakistan, into West Bengal and the other border States of north-east India. In addition to the valiant efforts made by the Indian Government ...
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(Disasters. Pergamon Press, LTD., 1979)
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(Essex, England : North East London Polytechnic, 2010-01-07)
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(ALA MAGIRT, 2011)In 1979, a group of map librarians founded the American Library Association’s Map and Geography Round Table (MAGERT). An examination of the organization’s creation and early history offers a glimpse into the state of map ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2005-10-09)This article focuses on colonial-era French mapping of the region between the French and British settlements in what is now the northeastern United States. This area was largely dominated by Iroquoian and Algonquian Indians, ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2010-03-09)This paper is designed to help GIS librarians and information specialists follow developments in the emerging field of geospatial Web services (GWS). When built using open standards, GWS permits users to dynamically access, ...
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The following article summarizes some of the principal areas of activity of the authors who worked as INTERTECT nutrition and public health consultants to the Brandi Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2005-01-31)For 20 years, David Rumsey assembled a collection of more than 150,000 historical maps of the Americas and the world. Motivated by a desire to make his private map collection a free public resource, Rumsey then created an ...
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2008-06-03)his is a very short history of cartography. Notes and links to images are included at the end.
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(ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2009-03-15)This paper is meant to be the beginning of a project that examines the use of abstract mathematics and the changing ontology of mapmaking in the early years of the development of computer cartography. The history of the ...