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End of Semester Me Time

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by Angie Cope

If you’re a frequent visitor to the AGS Library, you know that you can’t find all our materials by searching in the UWM Libraries online catalog. We have an old fashioned card catalog that does list everything acquired between 1851 and 1978. Most things acquired between 1980 and 2019 are cataloged, but staff are still hard at work getting all 500,000 maps and 12,000 atlases cataloged in the digital environment.

During each semester break, I like to tackle some of the cataloging of these older materials and this winter break I’m indulging in some me time and focusing on a region I adore: Scandinavia. Iceland got some attention:

And next I’m traveling to Finland. I think the maps from these areas are simply amazing. Between the color choices and graphics used, I find them some of the most beautiful maps made. I’d like to share a few images with you from our collections in Finland.

Click on an individual image for a larger view.

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Tourist map of Tampere, Finland 1951

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In addition to trying to get everything searchable in an online catalog format, we are also working on getting more and more items scanned and viewable in our Digital Map Collection.

Click here to view the maps of Iceland in the digital collection so far.

Click here to view maps of Finland in the digital collection so far.

Click here to view maps of Norway in the digital collection so far (and my favorite, Vardo).

Click here to view maps of Sweden in the digital collection so far.

And, click here to view maps of Denmark in the digital collection so far.

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