'A Sense of Place': Map Collections in the British Library

Barber, Peter

IFLA Council and General Conference / .
(ReLIS:jul:juljin:6639)

Abstract:

In the obvious sense, the 'place' of the British Library's Map Library presents no problems. It is in the Library's flagship building at St Pancras in London, with the reading rooms and offices on the third and fourth floors and most of its approximately 4.5 million maps in Basement 4. In a less literal sense, however, a 'sense of place' is central to the structural and intellectual.

Creation: 2003
Keywords: Mapas ; Materiales cartográficos ; Materiales no librarios ; Bibliotecas nacionales ; British Library

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