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Rumsey receives G&M honors award - Chapter & Division News

Information Outlook, August, 2002

The Special Libraries Association Geography & Map Division presented David Rumsey with the division's Honors Award for his outstanding contribution to the fields of geography, cartography and map librarianship. Map users around the world can use the David Rumsey Collection (http://www.davidrumsey.com/) to access a unique private collection of early maps and atlases. The G&M Division honors Rumsey's for his innovative experimentation with historical map images and modern geospatial data; for his support and development of map image publishing software; and for his dedication to the precise bibliographic control of individual map images. Rumsey truly shares the spirt and commitment of map librarians in making cartographic information widely assessable, according to the division.

The award was presented to Rumsey on June 10, 2002, at the Special Libraries Association conference in Los Angeles.

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