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Cartographic Resources Outside NYPL

For map aficionados and collectors in the Metropolitan area, please visit the New York Map Society at http://www.nymapsociety.org/. Meetings are held the second Saturday at NYPL Map Division or at various "field" sites.

For those wishing to study cartography, geography and GIS, the Hunter College Dept. of Geography, part of CUNY, has an outstanding program from B. A. to Ph.D. Visit them at http://www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu/.

Some 30 map stores exist in the area. A list of either current or antiquarian map dealers may be obtained by contacting mapref@nypl.org

Book catalogs for the British Library Map Room, the National Map Collection of the Public Archives of Canada, the William L. Clements Library, the Bancroft Library, and others are available for consultation in the Map Division reading room.

Computer searches on the Online Computer Library Center bibliographic networks link NYPL to resources in some 300 international map collections, and the Internet enables Map Division staff to communicate directly with map libraries around the world.

City, state, regional and national public and commercial mapping agency addresses and phone numbers are maintained at the Reference Desk in the Map Division. Addresses and phone numbers of local current and antiquarian map dealers, including recently received catalogs, are also available.

An excellent website on which to begin a search online for maps and other cartographic information is the Oddens' Bookmarks Page. This site contains links to mapping related pages worldwide.

Two sites which serve as guides to the history of cartography on the web are Images of early maps on the web and Web articles and commentaries on specific topics in the History of Cartography , hosted by Tony Campbell, formerly Head of the British Library Map Room.

A good example of a map related periodical online can be found at Mapforum.com.