Reference: Wisconsin Historical Society Makes More Than 3,000 Rare Maps Available Online
Wisconsin Historical Society officials say they now have more than 3,000 digital versions of rare maps and atlases online.
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The University of Wisconsin-Madison contributed staff to catalog several hundred of them, but at the time of the first donation thousands of maps could only be found through an antiquated card catalog. Hundreds more lay in random piles.
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See Also: Many More Digital Collections from the Wisconsin Historical Society
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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