Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/15420353.2022.2128971
Melissa Chomintra
Abstract Knowledge, as it has been shaped in the United States, is grounded in whiteness. As a result, maps and geospatial data can be particularly harmful in perpetuating historically and experientially inaccurate narratives of space. As stewards of knowledge, librarians are uniquely positioned to implement policies advancing antiracist practices. The following paper analyzes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in cartographic collection development, metadata, and instruction, and discusses the opportunities for librarians to employ critical theory in their cartographic and geospatial library praxis.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/15420353.2022.2080790
Bonita Dyess, S. Teplitzky
Abstract Earth Science is one of the least diverse scientific fields, but libraries can play a role in assisting their liaison departments’ diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts by diversifying our collections and supporting research practices that promote their use. In 2020, the University of California, Berkeley’s Earth & Planetary Science Department graduate students created an impressive Call to Action directed toward the faculty of the department. The Call to Action included a plan for advancing the department’s diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, particularly important in a department with only 17% of students from underserved backgrounds enrolled in the graduate program. Stemming from this effort, the Earth Sciences & Map Library at UC Berkeley, developed a guide (https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/geo_dei) to provide resources to further educate departmental faculty, staff, and students on the topic of DEI. The guide encourages researchers to expand their engagement with scholarship and citation practices intentionally while working on these DEI efforts. Although Earth Science is highlighted in this particular LibGuide, the strategies are universal, especially as applied to science, technology, engineering, math (STEM) fields. The development of this guide, as well as partnerships with active student groups, can serve as a tool for other academic departments creating and promoting DEI efforts.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/15420353.2022.2091079
B. Aldred
Abstract Where does one look to study cities around the world? How does a librarian build a collection that moves beyond a limited Western focus to incorporate post-colonial and indigenous experiences? And how can such analysis be automated to allow practitioners at disparate institutions to diversify their own collections? These questions are important as Urban Planning tries to incorporate a variety of practices in human settlement from across the world. Building on previous research related to an Urban Planning book collection, this study uses GIS analysis to address DEI questions on a global scale by highlighting disparities in scholarly focus. By analyzing the geographic subject content of top journal articles in the field of Urban Planning in comparison to books within the library, the study examines ways that a collection can address gaps in analysis of human settlements around the world, especially in the global south. These analyses are then used to guide collection development, building a global focus in the book collection, filling in gaps that may arise from limits in the current journal coverage. Material is analyzed both in the specific collection, but also in the larger scholarly community, comparing the specific gaps in the collection to larger gaps in the scholarship of Urban Planning. In addition to the primary study, this article includes details about using Excel macros for textual analysis of a corpus of metadata, with instructions for how to use these open-source macros to do analysis at a variety of institutions.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/15420353.2022.2029795
R. A. Pegg
Abstract After fifty years, we are revisiting R.A. Skelton’s 1966 study of the collecting of early maps in Europe and the United States for the celebration of the Nineteenth Nebenzahl lecture series at the Newberry Library, Chicago. In that study, Skelton discussed who collected maps, where some of those maps have been and where they are today, what it meant to assemble map collections, and how we understood and studied maps and mapping fifty years ago. Skelton, however, examined primarily the collecting of European and American mapping during the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. This study will address one neglected area of collecting and studying, that of the maps of East Asia, i.e. those of China, Korea and Japan in Europe and the United States exclusively, with the understanding that the majority of extant maps of East Asia are currently housed in respective national, provincial, municipal and university libraries and museums in East Asia. And only pre-modern East Asian maps, those produced in East Asia for an East Asian audience prior to 1900 are discussed, as that generally represents the historical moment when transitions from imperial and royal rule to modern nation-state governance occurred in East Asia.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/15420353.2022.2029794
M. Edney
Abstract The Nebenzahl Lectures, held triennially at the Newberry Library, Chicago, since 1966, have been crucially important in the development of sociocultural map studies. This essay explores their creation within the context of the challenges facing the Newberry in the 1960s, with special attention to the role of Ken and Jossy Nebenzahl; it then examines the significance of R. A. Skelton’s inaugural lectures and the subsequent history and influence of the lectures, before revisiting Skelton’s vision for the field and its continuing paucity of institutional support. Skelton’s lectures had two major consequences: they led to the formation in 1972 of the Newberry’s Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography; and his conception of the history of cartography as an intellectually relevant and autonomous discipline was soon proselytized by J. B. Harley and David Woodward as the necessary foundation for a new approach to maps as cultural documents and social instruments.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/15420353.2022.2134271
James R. Akerman
Abstract The ephemeral maps that are discussed in this article include those found in promotional brochures and handbills, on postcards, souvenirs, placemats, and hotel stationery. They include the maps of local streets and roads handed out at car rental and real estate agencies, maps on timetables and transportation tickets, and in airline magazines. The types and formats of these objects are almost unlimited, and their numbers are prodigious. Ephemeral maps, like ephemera in general struggle for a place among the established classes of formats—books, prints, manuscripts, archives, broadsheets, pamphlets, and yes, maps among them—that professional librarians use in catalog descriptions and finding aids. It is hard in practice to delineate the boundary between a map and a brochure as formats; perhaps we shouldn’t try. In an effort to support informed choices, this paper offers a classification of ephemeral travel mapping before concluding with a case for its retention (wherever practical).
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/15420353.2022.2079799
Susan Schulten
Abstract An appreciation for old maps as culturally important documents came slowly in the United States. The first precondition for this shift was the reframing of history brought by political independence. The second was the growth of facsimile maps, which made these sources available to a wider audience. The third was a loose network of scholars, archivists, collectors, and federal actors—including Johann Georg Kohl—who gradually began to advocate for the cultural and political significance of old maps. Yet ongoing advocacy for a federal map collection did not produce results until the end of the Civil War, just as the trade in old maps coincided with the emergence of university-based historical and geographical research. The rapid growth of institutional map collections—including the Library of Congress Division of Maps—by the turn of the twentieth century bears out this shift. The idea that outdated maps might be valuable evidence of history and culture could only develop once maps were understood not simply as instruments of accuracy, but meaningful artifacts of history. Here we trace this complex story across multiple areas of American life from the early nineteenth century to the interwar period.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-30DOI: 10.1080/15420353.2021.1926848
R. Grim, Ryan J. Moore, R. Grim, Ryan J. Moore
The common theme for the articles in this special issue of the Journal of Map and Geography Libraries is “provenance.” While some in map librarianship may consider this an archival term and thusly not germane, we the editors, Ronald Grim and Ryan Moore, who started our careers in archival settings and moved on to work for the Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, though at separate times, propose that provenance is very useful for map librarians. Forgoing the risks associated with assumptions, we define the term, by way of the Society of American Archivists, “provenance is a fundamental principal, referring to the individual, family, or organization that created or received the items in a collection. The principle of provenance or the respect des fonds dictates that records of different origins be kept separate to preserve their context.” Of course, it makes sense for archivists to examine groups of information and to keep common threads intact, thereby highlighting the purpose of the whole, with varying levels of description for the constituent parts. However, we think it is worthwhile for map librarians to adopt this approach, where applicable, to enhance description. In other words, the better a cartographic item’s total history and purpose are described, the more valuable an item or a group of items is for research. Case in point, coeditor Moore notes how the Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division cataloged a set of maps of Great Britain, generically describing them as depictions of Great Britain in 1941 by the German General Staff. Upon examination, it was determined that these maps were, in fact, part of a German military feasibility study for a cross-channel invasion! Moore shared this information with cataloger extraordinaire, Charles Peterson, now retired, who reads German like Moore. Peterson then developed a richer record that incorporated provenance. To similar ends, this special edition’s five articles, written by map librarians in North America and Europe, explore the role of provenance. All discuss map or atlas collections within library settings with a focus on the origins of specific cartographic materials, examining such concerns as who created or first owned them, how they were used or consumed, and how they were acquired by the library. Mentioned in the articles are proposals for cataloging and digitizing the maps, moreover, including in those records information about provenance. We begin our exploration of provenance with an article by coeditor Grim that argues that no clue should be overlooked, whether it may be acquisition stamps, handwritten notes or acquisition documentation. He examines a small but exceptional group of annotated atlases acquired by the Boston Public Library during the last half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These annotations and alterations, along with published acquisition reports and genealogical records, demonstrate the https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2021.1926
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Pub Date : 2021-06-30DOI: 10.1080/15420353.2021.1923611
Paige G. Andrew, L. McElfresh, L. Musser
Abstract After World War II, the Geography and Map Division at the Library of Congress acquired large quantities of military-related maps through the U.S. Army Map Service and similar military agencies, as well as from traditional domestic and foreign sources. The Division found itself in possession of many duplicates or otherwise expendable cartographic materials. The Division managed the surplus with its Special Map Processing Project. It recruited from the ranks of students, faculty, and librarians to secure hands-on staffing assistance with a kaleidoscopic variety of frontline projects. The Project served as a conduit to redistribute maps and other cartographic materials from their surplus collection. As the Division enjoyed the benefits of this arrangement — such as gaining control of their collections — many university, college, and other libraries benefited from acquiring duplicate materials, which strengthened, enlarged, and sometimes “seeded” map collections. The authors explore the Special Project’s roots and founding; its structure, staffing, impacts, and outcomes; and important changes.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-30DOI: 10.1080/15420353.2021.1927932
T. Horst
Abstract This paper deals with the unwritten story of one of the largest collections of early-modern military maps in pre-war Germany, its later dispersion to different institutions, as well as the attempts to reconstruct this cimelia or treasured library of the former Bavarian Army, founded at the beginning of the nineteenth century. During World War II most of the maps of the Wehrkreisbücherei VII were stored in several locations outside of Munich, and survived destruction. After 76 years we can reconstruct the unwritten odyssey of this important map collection. One part was integrated into the Bavarian State Library, where some valuable manuscript maps were recently cataloged. The largest section was taken by American soldiers to the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., where it was stored for more than a decade. This cache was restored to Germany in 1962, when a political dispute arose between the German State and the Free State of Bavaria that was not settled until 1968. This collection became part of the Wehrbereichsbibliothek VI, located since 1978 at Munich’s Bundeswehr University. Unfortunately, due to political decisions in 1984, this section was relocated to a provincial museum.
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