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Maps and technology to be featured at OCLC/Frederick G.
Kilgour Lecture
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David Rumsey, an historical map scholar and collector, will
share how he
turned his private map collection, one of the largest in the
U.S., into a
public resource at the second annual OCLC/Frederick G.
Kilgour Lecture in
Information and Library Science on Wednesday, March 19,
2008.
Rumsey, president of Cartography Associates and Chairman of
Luna Imaging,
Inc., will present, "Turning Private Collections into
Public Resources
Using Digital Technologies and the Internet" in the
Auditorium of the Frank
Porter Graham Student Union on the University of North
Carolina at Chapel
Hill campus at 2 p.m. A reception will follow.
Rumsey will show how his increasing use of digital
technologies and the
Internet over the past decade has transformed his work as a
historical map
scholar and collector, and how it has turned his private map
collection of
many thousands of maps into a public resource. Using imaging
software,
geographical information system (GIS) and popular
applications like Google
Earth and Second Life, Rumsey has given new life to old
maps. His work has
revolutionized the dissemination and our ability to analyze
and understand
them, thereby unlocking the information held in maps for use
in a wide
range of disciplines. He will discuss and demonstrate how he
offers these
software tools and a growing number of digitized maps on his
free public
online map library at: www.davidrumsey.com
The OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture in Information and
Library Science is
funded through a special endowment from the OCLC Online
Computer Library
Center to honor Dr. Frederick G. Kilgour. The fund supports
an annual
lecture bringing together scholars and leaders from around
the world to
share innovative ideas and cutting-edge research.
For more information, please visit the Web site at:
http://sils.unc.edu/news/releases/2008/02_rumsey.htm
Who: David Rumsey
What: "Turning Private Collections into Public
Resources Using Digital
Technologies and the Internet"
When: 2 p.m., March 19, 2008
Where: Auditorium of the Frank Porter Graham Student Union,
UNC at Chapel
Hill
The lecture is hosted by the School of Information and
Library Science at
UNC at Chapel Hill. The event is free and open to the
public, however
seating is limited. Please send your RSVP via e-mail to
mpenny email.unc.edu or call 919.962.8366.
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Wanda Monroe
Director of Communications
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
100 Manning Hall
Campus Box 3360
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360
Phone: 919.843.8337
Web site: sils.unc.edu
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2008 Annual Meeting
People Transforming Information - Information Transforming
People
October 24-29, 2008, Columbus, Ohio
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