{"id":591,"date":"2005-10-28T07:45:36","date_gmt":"2005-10-28T12:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/10\/29\/591\/"},"modified":"2008-04-02T12:23:56","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T16:23:56","slug":"loc-g-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/10\/28\/591\/","title":{"rendered":"LOC G &#038; M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So last night I spent about 3 hours preparing an e-mail to the head of acquisitions at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/rr\/geogmap\/\"target=_blank>Library of Congress Geography &#038; Mapping Division<\/a>.  It outlines why I should have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/rr\/geogmap\/guide\/gmilllsp.html\"target=_blank>special collection<\/a> and I think I provide some compelling reasons as to why my maps would be of interest to the library.  On the LOC website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/rr\/geogmap\/acquis.html\"target=_blank>states<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDivision&#8217;s collecting goals include the acquisition of items and collections that:<\/p>\n<p>broaden and enhance worldwide geographic and thematic coverage<br \/>\nfill identified gaps in existing collections and map series and upgrade the condidtion and quality<br \/>\ndocument the work of distinguished cartographers and map publishers, particularly American<br \/>\ndocument and illustrate historical events<br \/>\nillustrate the purely aesthetic value of cartographic products<br \/>\nillustrate the technical process of map making, including the variety of printing techniques<br \/>\ndocument and illustrate developments in thematic cartography<br \/>\ndocument non-Western\/non-European cartographic traditions<br \/>\nsupport the collections and reference resource requirements of other areas of the Library.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I went through each applicable line above and explain how my maps qualified.  I have not sent the e-mail yet.  If I do I&#8217;ll bury it in this posting at a later date&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>So why the Library of Congress?  why not?  I have painstakingly backed up every map 2 times and I think the LOC would be one of the best places to archive these maps.  I don&#8217;t have the exact number, I lost track a long time ago, but my guess is that I&#8217;ve made around 200 maps in the last year and a half.  At last check, I had backed up about 650 gigs worth of CDs and DVDs- make that 1.3 terabytes of data&#8230;..Terra&#8230;.that&#8217;s Latin for land and well that also happens to be the same subject matter my maps employ.  Nice duplicity :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So last night I spent about 3 hours preparing an e-mail to the head of acquisitions at the Library of Congress Geography &#038; Mapping Division. It outlines why I should have a special collection and I think I provide some compelling reasons as to why my maps would be of interest to the library. On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-library-of-congress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":34,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}