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Reference: Wisconsin Historical Society Makes More Than 3,000 Rare Maps Available Online

June 9, 2013 by Gary Price

From the AP (via WSAW)

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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About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.

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