MAGERT

The ALA Map and Geography Round Table

About the New ALA web Site

In fall 2008, ALA will unveil a redesigned web site that is the culmination of two years of gathering information from focus groups, interviews, usability tests, surveys and other feedback loops.
We invite you to preview the site's new look at www.ala.org/preview, and to see MAGERT's work in progress at http://staging.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/magert/magert.cfm.
Please contact the ALA Library at library@ala.org (or 800-545-2433, x2153) if you need assistance locating specific content or updates during our migration.

Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Cartographic)

Via the Cataloging and Classification Committee (CCC) and the executive board, MAGERT members have supported a proposal to develop a manual for the cataloging of early maps as part of a series of such manuals, the creation and publication of which is being coordinated by the Bibliographic Standards Committee (BSC) of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of ALA. A status announcement and the proposal have recently been mounted on the Web site of the BSC. To see them in context, please start by going to http://www.rbms.info/committees/bibliographic_standards/index.shtml
and then under Descriptive Cataloging Rules, click on Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Cartographic). Action on the proposal depends on its approval by the BSC at ALA; it will be considered at their Saturday morning meeting, June 28, 2008, in Anaheim.

Thank you for your support. We will keep you informed of developments. We are hopeful that this will transpire and look forward to the input of CCC and other MAGERT and BSC members along the way.

Nancy Kandoian,
representing also Todd Fell, Carolyn Kadri, and Seanna Tsung
DCRM(C) Initial Proposal Team

Newly available reduced membership rate in MAGERT for Library and Information Science students

The ALA Map and Geography Round Table would like to announce that we now offer library and information science students the chance to join our round table for a reduced annual $10 fee. MAGERT offers LIS students and others in the field exciting opportunities to engage the continually and rapidly evolving world of map and geography librarianship, geospatial metadata (including map cataloging), and Geographic Information Systems through our meetings, publications, and email list. Students wishing to join must first be members of ALA, which also offers a discounted LIS student rate. For more information or to join, please visit the ALA Student Membership page at http://www.ala.org/ala/ourassociation/membership/studentmembershipover.htm and the ALA Personal Membership page at http://www.ala.org/ala/ourassociation/membership/personaloverview.htm.

MAGERT Budgets for 2000-2007

At the bottom of this page is a download link for a MS Excel spreadsheet with the MAGERT financial summary for the past seven years.

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