tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-300050962024-03-06T03:22:26.950-05:00GIS Research and Map CollectionThe purpose of this blog is to provide news and announcements from the Ball State University Libraries GIS Research and Map Collection located in Bracken Library.MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863563162906367536noreply@blogger.comBlogger874125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30005096.post-61123993838175629912018-04-24T09:21:00.000-04:002018-04-24T09:21:56.494-04:00Geography Students Map Muncie History<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Story of the Geography of Lost Muncie</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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residents and students of history, geography, and architecture will be
interested in a community program that will identify some of the unique
businesses and landmarks in the city’s past.
<i>Finding Lost Muncie: Making Story
Maps of the Past </i>will offer a discussion about Muncie’s past—including some
amazing architecture, restaurants, theaters, churches, and booming factories
lost to the wrecking ball—and how it can be visualized on a map.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Koenker of the Ball State University Libraries administrates the popular <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/158496695087/" target="_blank"><i>Lost Muncie </i>Facebook page</a> that provides
historic photographs and advertisements of people, places, and things of Muncie’s
past. Dr. Jorn Seemann, Assistant
Professor in the Department of Geography, created a project where his
cartography students would locate some of the places from the page using <i>Story Map.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>Story Maps </i>allow users to combine
authoritative maps with narrative text, images, and multimedia content. The application “makes it easy to harness the
power of maps and geography to tell your story.” Dr. Seemann’s students began creating maps
about the places on the <i>Lost Muncie </i>site
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program will be at the Cornerstone Center for the Arts on Wednesday, April 25
from 6:30 to 8:00 pm. The event is
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Cornerstone Center for the Arts is located at 520 East Main Street, and free
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<br />MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863563162906367536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30005096.post-28099480992053667042018-04-04T08:51:00.000-04:002018-04-04T08:51:04.194-04:00Map Celebrating the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Available from Ball State University Libraries<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today marks the 50<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the death of civil
rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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(GRMC) created this commemorative map (click to enlarge) about his life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The map provides a timeline of important
events and identifies their locations throughout the United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The map is available for circulation from the
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For more information about cartographic resources, please contact the
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<br />MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863563162906367536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30005096.post-47965886577661449162018-03-15T11:39:00.001-04:002018-03-15T11:40:33.959-04:00Women's History Maps Program at Cornerstone Center for the Arts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Maps Program:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Celebrating Women Who
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Ball State University Libraries’ GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC) on the
second floor of Bracken Library is celebrating Women’s History Month with a
public presentation in downtown Muncie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chick Lit: Mapping the Lives of Inspiring
Female Authors</i> will be presented at the <a href="https://cornerstonearts.org/education/programs/chick_lit_mapping_the_lives_of_inspiring_female_authors" target="_blank">Cornerstone Center for the Arts</a>
(520 East Main Street) on Tuesday, March 20 from 6:30 to 7:30 pm in the
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presentation will feature maps depicting the lives of female authors from
Muncie, the state of Indiana, and around the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The program includes maps about famous
authors Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, J.K. Rowling, Maya Angelou, and even
Muncie’s own Emily Kimbrough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the
program also includes lesser known authors and women whose work was never
published in their lifetime.</span></span></div>
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GRMC also has an exhibit of a map of famous women’s rights activists in its
front windows on the balcony of Bracken Library.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the GRMC created a special <a href="http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/" target="_blank">collection</a> of
online maps to celebrate Women’s History Month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Type “women in the world map” in the search box to access the available
cartographic resources).</span></span></div>
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presentation is free and open to the public and suitable for all ages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Free parking is available.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For more information, please contact the GRMC
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Escapes: Black History Month Maps Program in Muncie</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Ball State University Libraries GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC) will be
presenting a program featuring maps celebrating Black History Month. The program will be on Thursday, February 15
from 6:30 to 7:30 at the <a href="https://cornerstonearts.org/" target="_blank">Cornerstone Center for the Arts</a> in downtown Muncie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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class, <i>Heroes of Black History: Great
Escapes, </i>will use maps to chronicle the stories of men and women who
escaped from slavery in the South prior to the Civil War, including Frederick
Douglass, Eliza Harris, and Margaret Garner, whose story inspired the Toni Morrison novel <i>Beloved.
</i>A map about the best known “conductor” of the Underground Railroad,
Harriet Tubman, will also be featured.
And attendees can learn about how Henry “Box” Brown earned his nickname.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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class is free and open to the public.
The Cornerstone Center for the Arts is located at 520 East Main Street,
and the program is in the Colonnade Room.
Free parking is available on the north side of the building.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ball State University Libraries’ <a href="http://libx.bsu.edu/" target="_blank">Digital Media Repository</a> (DMR) provides online
access to a range of digitized primary source materials, including historic
films and video, oral histories, diaries, photographs, cartographic resources,
and artwork. The GIS Research and Map
Collection (GRMC) has provided access to hundreds of historic maps from its
collection via the repository. But the
newest DMR collection from the GRMC is a set of hand-drawn maps created by Ball
State University students.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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name of this <a href="http://libx.bsu.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/MapDrawing1" target="_blank">latest collection</a> is <i>Maps
Fictional and Actual: Mapping Projects from Drawing 1. </i>The maps were created by students in the
fall semester 2017 Drawing 1 class.
Heidi Jensen, Associate Professor in the Ball State University School of
Art, created this unique project for her students: After visiting the GRMC in Bracken Library
and reviewing hundreds of maps, create an artistic map—either of an actual or
fictional place. The maps can be viewed
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original art was exhibited at the Muncie DWNTWN <i>First Thursday Arts Walk</i> in November 2017 at Twin Archer Brew Pub
in conjunction with student-created maps from the Departments of Architecture
and Geography. This is the second year
Twin Archer hosted a cartographic art exhibit for Ball State University
students.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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artistic maps created in the fall of 2016 are also part of a <a href="http://libx.bsu.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/HomeWaterco" target="_blank">DMR Collection</a>
called <i>Home. </i>These watercolor maps were created by
students studying with Hannah Barnes, Associate Professor in the School of Art.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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GRMC accepts donations of unique maps for the Collection, including hand-drawn
and other types of original cartographic works.
For more information about any of these projects, please contact the GRMC
at 765-285-1097.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this day in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln signed a Joint Resolution
submitting to the states the proposed 13<sup>th</sup> Amendment to the
Constitution. The 13<sup>th</sup>
Amendment formally abolished slavery in the United States. In December of that year, the 13<sup>th</sup>
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Ball State University Libraries GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC) created
a new collection of custom maps in celebration of Black History Month. The first map in the series, <i>Great Escape: The Unbelievable Story of
Henry Brown, </i>depicts important places in the life of Henry “Box”
Brown. The map (above, click to enlarge)
is based on the children’s book <i>Henry’s
Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad </i>by Ellen Levine and
illustrated by Kadir Nelson (available from the Educational Technology and
Resources Collection in the lower level of Bracken Library). The book details the story of Henry “Box”
Brown, who mailed himself in a box from Virginia to Philadelphia to escape
slavery. (This map will be displayed in
the front windows of the GRMC through February).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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other series maps will be featured in a community presentation at the Cornerstone Center for the
Arts. <i>Heroes of Black History: Great Escapes </i>will chronicle the stories
about men and women who escaped from slavery in the South prior to the Civil
War, including Frederick Douglass and Margaret Garner, whose story inspired the
Toni Morrison novel <i>Beloved. </i>The presentation will be held in the
Colonnade Room at the Cornerstone Center on Thursday, February 18 from 6:30 to
7:30 pm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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GRMC includes a large collection of unique maps describing the people, places, and
important events in African-American history. <i>Black History: Moments that
Changed the World </i>is a map in the GRMC based on the Charles R. Smith, Jr.
book, <i>28 Days: Moments in Black History
that Changed the World. </i>This map was
created in 2017 and features some of the watershed moments in African-American
history, like the birthplace of Harriet Tubman, Shirley Chisholm, and Marian
Anderson and the story of Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, who founded the first African
American-owned hospital in the country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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GRMC also has custom maps about the Negro League Baseball teams, the lives of
Martin Luther King, Jr., Sojourner Truth, and Madam C.J. Walker. And the GRMC created custom maps about lesser
known yet important people in African-American history like civil rights
activist Fannie Lou Hamer and designer Ann Cole Lowe. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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GRMC also created a map of Muncie during the 1950’s that highlights African
American-owned businesses. The map is
based on the book <i>A History of Negroes in
Muncie </i>by local historian Hurley Goodall and J. Paul Mitchell. (This book is available from the General
Collection or Archives and Special Collections in Bracken Library). Another map created by the GRMC identifies
important events in Indiana’s civil rights history. All of the maps circulate from the GRMC and
may be used for classroom research and exhibits. (Digital copies of the maps are available
upon request). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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more information about the Cornerstone Center for the Arts Black History Month
program or any of the cartographic resources from the GRMC, please contact
Melissa Gentry at 765-285-1097.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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marks the eighth anniversary of the deadly earthquake that hit Haiti in January
of 2010. The Ball State University
Libraries GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC) includes a variety of maps of
Haiti and the island of Hispaniola.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mapa de la Isla de Santo Domingo y Haiti
por el General Cashmiro n de Moya (Map of Santo Domingo and Haiti by General
Cashmiro de Moya) </span></i><span style="font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">is
displayed on the front wall of the GRMC (above, click to enlarge). The map was created by General Casimiro De
Moya in 1905 and corresponds with the U.S. control of Dominican customs during
Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency. De Moya
was a politician and military leader in the Dominican Republic. This was the first detailed map of the island
of Hispaniola.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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GRMC also has a reproduction map of the island of Hispaniola published in
1722. The map depicts the topography of
the island in color relief. <i>Hispaniola: Urban and Rural Population Map </i>was
published in 1956 and presents the population of Haiti and the Dominican
Republic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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map of Port-au-Prince and Petion-Ville, Haiti (above) is a guide map published
in 1978. The map was created by the
Nader Art Gallery in Port-au-Prince and includes the art of many different
Haitians. It identifies points of
interest like the U.S. Embassy, cathedrals, museums, theaters, and hotels with
distances to the Nader Gallery show room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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charts included in the GRMC also depict the coastline of Haiti. A large collection of maps and atlases of the
Caribbean islands detail the larger area.
Maps showing seismic activity in the region are also available in the
GRMC. Maps related to the Haiti
earthquake are also available in <a href="https://ballstate.box.com/s/v52p3mh6ep4d0fppmluq45bba581ua93" target="_blank">digital format</a> from the GRMC. For example, the U.S. Geological Survey
created the map showing the over two million displaced people in Haiti (above)
and maintains a <a href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp000h60h#executive" target="_blank">Web page</a> related to the earthquake.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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from the GRMC circulate for two weeks or longer. Please contact the GRMC at 765-285-1097 for
more information.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hours at Ball State University Libraries GIS Research and Map Collection</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Ball State University Libraries GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC) on the
second floor of Bracken Library will be closed on Monday, January 15 for the
Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday. Bracken
Library, however, will be open on Monday from 7:00 am to 3:00 am.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Trump administration announced on Monday that nearly 200,000 people from El
Salvador who have lived in the United States for more than a decade must leave
the country. The administration is
giving the immigrants until September of 2019 before they could face
deportation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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immigrants from El Salvador were part of the humanitarian program—Temporary Protected
Status. This program allows immigrants
from designated countries to live and work (and pay taxes) in the U.S. without
fear of deportation. The program was
created by President George Bush in 1990, and immigrants from El Salvador were
included after devastating earthquakes in 2001.
Over the next 15 years, President George W. Bush and President Obama
extended the protection status.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "adobe caslon pro" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
Ball State University Libraries GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC) includes
a unique collection of maps of El Salvador.
The map above (top, click to enlarge) is called <i>El Salvador: The Struggle for Rural Control </i>and was published in
1991 near the end of the country’s 13-year civil war. The map identifies areas controlled by the
rebel group, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN). The red- and green-shaded areas depict areas
under the control of the FMLN. And
government army units are shown with the soldier icon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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GRMC also includes ortho-photographic maps of El Salvador at a scale of 1:5000
meters (above). These maps identify
important buildings in red, railways with the black line, and main roads with a
red line. The maps were published by the
National Geographic Institute of the Ministry of Public Works in Sal Salvador.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tourist map (above) identifies the locations of Pre-Columbian ruins and
historical sites, skiing and fishing areas, and beaches throughout the
country. El Salvador’s numerous
volcanoes and mountains are also depicted.
The map was published by the El Salvador Tourist Commission and also
includes an inset map showing travel times to U.S. cities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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GRMC also maintains a <a href="https://ballstate.box.com/s/2857x3ggo98vxpjbcvgemq85tmuve6hz" target="_blank">repository of digital maps </a>related to current events and
social topics that may be used as visual aids for research papers and learning
projects. The map, <i>Immigration Enforcement and Sanctuary Cities, </i>was published by the
Catholic Legal Immigration Network in 2016.
The Missing Migrants Project published the map showing migrant deaths on
world borders from January through September 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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population by state and county, maps related to the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and top immigrant populations by state and
cities. The map above identifies where
most of the immigrants from El Salvador are located in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://ballstate.box.com/s/l8umdzwoldolol4kodylnytydgcpq7fw" target="_blank">digital collection</a> of maps also includes large-scale maps that can be printed
using the plotters in the GRMC, or the maps may be projected digitally for
presentations. This collection also
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MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863563162906367536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30005096.post-63856173519112103802017-12-15T14:53:00.002-05:002017-12-15T14:54:53.252-05:00Holiday Hours at Ball State University Libraries<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ball State University Libraries’ GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC) will be
open regular hours 8:00 to 5:00 on Monday, December 18 through Thursday,
December 21. On Friday, December 22 the
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GRMC will be closed on Monday, December 25 and Tuesday, December 26. The GRMC will have regular hours on
Wednesday, December 27 and Thursday, December 28. And on Friday, December 29 the GRMC will be
open from 8:00 to 3:00 pm. The GRMC will
be closed on New Year’s Day and reopen for regular hours again on January 2,
2018.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ball State University Libraries GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC) provides
access to thousands of cartographic resources from the Collection that may be
used for research and learning projects.
Staff of the GRMC also locate and provide access to online cartographic
resources that may be used as visual aids for papers and presentations related
to current events and social topics, and online maps are produced by a large variety
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sites such as <i>The New York Times </i>(above,
click to enlarge)<i>, Washington Post, Vox, CNN,
</i>and <i>Slate</i> create useful maps that
depict current issues. And online
mapping sites like <a href="https://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/gallery/#s=0" target="_blank">ESRI</a> and <i><a href="http://metrocosm.com/" target="_blank">Metrocosm</a> </i>offer
unique visual depictions of news events.
However, sometimes the research of cartographic resources leads to new
sources—like outdoor sports clothing and gear designer <a href="http://www.patagonia.com/home/" target="_blank">Patagonia</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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President Trump announced the elimination of some of the protected land at the Bears
Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, Patagonia REI protested
the cuts on their Web page. The company
published maps (above) to show the size of the monuments before and after the
cuts. And the Web page includes
statistics related to oil and gas development on public lands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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social media accounts can also be a valuable resources for the latest maps
related to natural disasters and other emergencies. Local governments often employ the use of
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for tracking and planning emergency
response. For example, the Ventura
County Fire Department posts updated maps related to the Thomas Fire on December
5, 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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government agencies like the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) also
publish useful maps on their Web pages and social media accounts. These current events maps are downloaded and
archived by the GRMC for use in classroom research and learning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863563162906367536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30005096.post-2459651089861989742017-11-20T16:14:00.001-05:002017-11-20T16:14:21.366-05:00Ball State University Libraries Presents a White House Christmas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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(House) Christmas Presentation Next Week in Downtown Muncie</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the Ball State University Libraries Archives and Special Collections and GIS
Research and Map Collection (GRMC) will be presenting a workshop about the
history of decorating for Christmas at the White House. The presentation, <i><a href="https://cornerstonearts.org/education/programs/a_white_house_christmas" target="_blank">A White (House) Christmas,</a> </i>will be on Tuesday, November 28 from
6:30 to 7:30 pm in the Colonnade Room at the Cornerstone Center for the Arts
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presentation will provide a history (including social history, renovations, and
historic preservation) of the White House using maps, plans, and
photographs. Attendees will learn about
the interesting decorating themes and the origins of the White House Christmas
trees. And Cody Sprunger, graduate
assistant for the Archives and Special Collections, will provide
behind-the-scenes details from his experiences decorating at the White House in
2016.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ball State University <a href="http://cms.bsu.edu/academics/libraries/about/hourscalendars" target="_blank">Libraries</a> GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC) will be
closed on Thursday, November 23 and Friday, November 24 for Thanksgiving
break. The GRMC will reopen at 8:00 on
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it has lifted a 2014 Obama administration
ban on importing sport-hunted trophies of elephants from Zimbabwe and
Zambia. In a statement to National
Public Radio, the Service “determined that the hunting and management programs
for African elephants in Zimbabwe and Zambia will enhance the survival of the
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Humane Society of the U.S. plans to fight the lifting of the ban, claiming that
Zimbabwe’s unstable government will not support an elephant management plan. From Wayne Pacelle, the organization’s
president and CEO: “Elephants are on the list of threatened species; the global
community has rallied to stem the ivory trade; and now, the U.S. government is
giving American trophy hunters the green light to kill them.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Geographic <a href="https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/160206-American-trophy-hunting-wildlife-conservation/" target="_blank">published maps</a> (above, click to enlarge) related to sport-hunted
trophies in the decade leading up to the ban in 2014. Canada was the biggest source of trophy
imports due to its close proximity and popular species such as black bears,
grizzly bears, moose, and wolves. South
Africa was the second largest source with nearly 400,000 imports.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to the report from National Geographic, in the decade from 2005 to 2014, “American
trophy hunters imported nearly 32,500 lions, elephants, rhinos, buffalo, and
leopards.” 1,892 African elephants were
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2007 National Geographic published maps depicting the range of the African
elephants in 1979 versus 2007. And the next
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more information about cartographic resources for threatened and endangered
species, please contact the Ball State University Libraries GIS Research and
Map Collection (GRMC) at 765-285-1097.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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University Libraries and the Digital Scholarship Lab is hosting GIS Day next
Wednesday, November 15. GIS Day is an
international forum for users of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
technology. GIS Day celebrates and
showcases the real-world GIS applications that are improving society in
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Wednesday from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab in Bracken
Library, visitors can meet Patricia Carbajales-Dale for a coffee hour. Carbajales-Dale established and managed the
Stanford University Geospatial Center for four years and was a GIS lecturer in
the School of Earth Sciences. She
created and taught the first “GIS for Good” class, a service-learning program
where students from different disciplines partnered with the United Nations. Carbajales-Dale is currently the Co-Director
of the Center of Excellence and Center for Geospatial Technologies at Clemson
University.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and graduate students are invited to join the GIS Day Digital Feed, “Geospatial
Support Services: A Tale of Two Campuses,” from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. in the
Digital Scholarship Lab. (Please <a href="mailto:dsl@bsu.edu" target="_blank">RSVP</a> or
contact <a href="http://cms.bsu.edu/academics/libraries/about/stafflisting/staffbydepartment/grmc/gibsonangie" target="_blank">Angela Gibson</a>, University Libraries GIS Specialist, by 9:00 a.m. on
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<span style="font-family: "Aleo",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The annual
GIS Day poster session is from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. in the Schwartz Digital
Complex. Attendees can vote for the best
poster and best Story Map, and prizes will be awarded. (Poster and Story Map entries are due by
Tuesday, November 14).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Aleo",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And
Carbajales-Dale will present “GIS for Good: Serving Communities through
Education” about her experience partnering with the United Nations. This presentation is free and open to the
public from 3:00 to 4:00 in Bracken Library room 104 across from the Schwartz
Digital Complex. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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information, please contact Angela Gibson in the GIS Research and Map
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November 6, 1811, Governor William Henry Harrison of the Indiana Territory led
American forces to the Native American village of Prophetstown, near what is
now Battle Ground, Indiana. On November
7, Shawnee warriors attacked Harrison’s army.
This “Battle of Tippecanoe” was won by the American forces after the
warriors ran out of ammunition. And
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“the Prophet,” was the spiritual leader of the Shawnee. His brother, Tecumseh, emerged as the
military and political leader. Tecumseh
was recruiting warriors from other tribes to form a confederacy at the time of
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U.S. declared war on Great Britain in the War of 1812, Tecumseh’s confederacy
had finally been organized with the help of British allies. Tecumseh’s warriors composed nearly half of
the forces that captured Detroit from the U.S. during the war. But when Tecumseh was killed at the Battle of
the Thames in Canada, his confederacy weakened and finally disintegrated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "aleo" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Ball
State University Libraries GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC) is
commemorating Native American Heritage Month by featuring a map about the life
of Tecumseh as the “Map of the Month.”
The <a href="https://ballstate.box.com/s/e2bklggz2a4ing8p2pja2c1ms6yhth09" target="_blank">map</a>, <i>Tecumseh Was Here, </i>includes
important places in the life of the Shawnee leader, including his probable
birthplace in Ohio. Tetepachsit and
Utenink were Native American villages near modern-day Muncie where Tecumseh was
known to live (above, click to enlarge).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "aleo" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The map
will be displayed in the front windows of the GRMC through the month of
November. The GRMC also provides a <a href="http://cms.bsu.edu/-/media/www/departmentalcontent/library/gismaps/mapsmedia/nativeamericanresources.pdf?la=en" target="_blank">guide</a>
to other notable Native American cartographic resources for research and
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Ball State University Libraries’ GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC) is
coordinating an exhibit, <i>Carto-GRAPHICS:
Maps as Art, </i>for the <a href="http://www.downtownmuncie.org/" target="_blank">Muncie Downtown </a><i>First
Thursday Arts Walk. </i>This Thursday,
November 2, Twin Archer Brew Pub (117 West Charles Street) will be hosting the
exhibit starting at 5:00 through 8:00 pm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jorn Seemann, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, has
participated in the community arts project for two years. This year Dr. Seemann’s cartography students
created artistic maps of Indiana (above, click to enlarge). The maps cover Indiana’s rich history
depicted in interesting cartographic styles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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George Elvin, Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture, is an
advocate of green design strategies and technology. Students in Dr. Elvin’s class created large
shelter structures that truly represent unique works of art.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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State University students in Heidi Jensen’s drawing class also created original
maps for the exhibit. Students visited
the Map Collection in Bracken Library to explore the thousands of types of maps
for inspiration; then they drew different kinds of artistic maps, including a
garden and home neighborhood (above). And
student employees of the GRMC also created unique maps for the exhibit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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beer. The menu includes fresh
ingredients every day. The event is free
and open to the public, and the map exhibit is in the western room next to the
dining room. (No purchase is required to
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Burris Elementary School map of Muncie</div>
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Hannah Barnes 2015 art exhibit at University Libraries</div>
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First Thursday Arts Walk at Twin Archer, December 2016</div>
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Ball State University Libraries GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC) will
provide a workshop featuring maps created as works of art. The program will be in the Colonnade Room at
the Cornerstone Center for the Arts (520 East Main Street) on Tuesday, October
17 from 6:30 to 7:30.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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program will include maps created by artists who specialize in creating
cartographic works, including Martin Haake, Lucy Letherland, and Libby
Vanderploeg (above). And maps submitted
to the Instagram “They Draw and Travel” account and books series will also be
presented. Books detailing the art of
cartography from the Libraries’ collection will also be available.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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students from Burris School created hand-drawn maps (above, click to enlarge)
that will be presented in the program. In
December 2016, the GRMC coordinated a <i>First
Thursday Arts Walk </i>maps exhibit called “Home.” Students from Ball State University
professors Hannah Barnes’ watercolor and Jorn Seemann’s cartography class
created maps for the special show. (The
watercolor maps are included in a special collection in the Libraries’ <a href="http://libx.bsu.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/HomeWaterco" target="_blank">DigitalMedia Repository</a>). These maps will be
presented at the program, and attendees will get a sneak peek at some of the
maps being created for another <i>First
Thursday </i>exhibit on November 2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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program will also include information about how to create maps using online
resources and design software. And
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donated to the Libraries’ collection of maps or displayed as art.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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available. For more information, please
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International Day of the Girl </i></b></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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International Day of the Girl was created by the United Nations in 2011 to
celebrate the potential of girls across the world in the face of discrimination
and other threats to their well-being.
The mission is to empower girls worldwide and bring awareness to issues
like education, healthcare, and protection from discrimination, child marriage,
and sexual assault.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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theme for this year is “EmPOWER Girls: Before, during, and after Conflict.” According to the United Nations, girls in
conflict zones or humanitarian crises are 90% more likely to be out of school
and more likely to be subjected to violence and exploitation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
Ball State University Libraries GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC) has a
<a href="https://ballstate.box.com/s/7esrx41gqzveuypcrzt3j5lpg3hv46mq" target="_blank">collection of maps</a> and atlases that detail issues affecting girls around the
world. Cartographic resources like maps
are an innovative format for depicting problems like access to contraception
and healthcare, education, and clean water.
These maps can be used as informative visual aids for research and
education projects, exhibits, and papers.
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GRMC creates new maps related to international girls each year in celebration
of Women’s History Month and other special events and exhibits. Biographical maps about significant women in
history are also included in the collection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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more information about using maps for research and learning, contact the GRMC
at 765-285-1097.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
Ball State University Libraries GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC) features
one of the unique maps from the Collection as the “Map of the Month.” The October “Map of the Month” is a map
depicting the countries with the highest rates of breast cancer in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">October
is <i>Breast Cancer Awareness Month, </i>and
the map (above, click to enlarge) identifies the countries with the highest
breast cancer incidence per 100,000 women—all the countries have 75 cases and
over based on 2002-2007 world age standardized rates. (The United States has the highest rate with
101 per 100,000).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the countries are industrialized.
Women in industrialized countries are more likely to get breast
cancer. One in eight women in
industrialized countries will develop breast cancer over an 85-year
lifespan. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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map was created using data from the <i>Penguin
Atlas of Women in the World </i>by Joni Seager.
The atlas was published in 2009 and includes maps related to social
topics like disease, marriage, birthrights, environmental resources, employment,
and power. The atlas is an excellent
cartographic resource for visual aids for creative writing projects or
presentations and is available in the Atlas Collection or the GRMC.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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GRMC provides access to online <a href="https://ballstate.box.com/s/2857x3ggo98vxpjbcvgemq85tmuve6hz" target="_blank">cartographic resources</a> for educational projects
and learning. Contact the GRMC for more
information about using maps in education and learning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the World with the Ball State University Culture Exchange Program</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Ball State University Rinker Center for International Programs will be
presenting international speakers for the Culture Exchange program. Presenters
from around the world (mostly students) will highlight the culture and
lifestyles of their home countries every Wednesday at noon in the L.A.
Pittenger Student Center Phyllis Yuhas Room (Student Center 102, unless
otherwise noted). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Adobe Caslon Pro",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
Ball State University Libraries GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC) provides
maps and photographs from atlases to create exhibits for the program. Some of
the <a href="https://ballstate.box.com/s/di60qdred7hsqos05m9j0ylkkqq43487" target="_blank">poster exhibits</a> from past speakers are available for use in other displays
or classroom exhibits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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year the program begins with Kris Molloy discussing New Zealand on September
27. The complete program schedule:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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25: Ramona Whittaker, Bolivia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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15, Esau Martinez, Mexico<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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29: TBA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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September 18, <i>The New York Times</i>
published its first “Country of the Week,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/18/learning/18GeographyQuizSouth-AfricaLN.html" target="_blank">South Africa</a>. This new feature will make use of the paper’s
30 international news bureaus around the world with activities and quizzes to
build students’ geography skills.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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quiz for South Africa first asks responders to find the country on a map of
Africa. Then responders are asked about the country’s three capital cities, the
two oceans along its coasts. IsiZulu is the most widely spoken home language in
South Africa, and a video features the unique language. Users can also watch a 360 video “to catch a
glimpse of life in South Africa.” And <i>The
Times </i>will publish a new “Country of the Week” quiz every Monday throughout
the school year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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new urgency to teach geography skills is the result of a <i>New York Times Upshot </i>article reporting about an experiment where
researchers asked Americans to locate North Korea on the map. Only 36% of
respondents could correctly identify the country, but the interesting part was the
second question asking opinions regarding foreign policy: Those who could
correctly identify North Korea favored diplomatic and nonmilitary strategies
and were opposed to direct military engagement. Those who could not correctly
identify North Korea on a map actually favored direct military engagement with
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article continued: Harm de Blij in “Why Geography Matters” wrote that “geography
is a superb antidote to isolationism and provincialism.” Geographic literacy of a country’s citizens
provides an excellent “check and balances” review for foreign policy actions of
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Ball State University Libraries GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC) provides access to <a href="https://ballstate.box.com/s/zkwdvwjft8xkfyhjir6lnoasvzdet0co" target="_blank">online educational resources</a> that can be used in the classroom—or at home—to promote
geographic literacy. The GRMC creates
custom maps, tutorials, games, lessons, and exhibits for use in educational research and
learning. Teachers and other users can download the files for use in the classroom or other learning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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more information about using cartographic resources from the GRMC, please call
765-285-1097 Monday through Friday from 8:00 to 5:00 pm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and Their Places: Biography Maps Class from the Ball State University Libraries</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Ball State University Libraries GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC) will
provide a workshop featuring biographical maps on Wednesday, September 20 from
6:30 to 7:30 at the <a href="https://cornerstonearts.org/" target="_blank">Cornerstone Center for the Arts</a> in downtown Muncie. <i><a href="https://cornerstonearts.org/education/programs/geography_biographies_mapping_historic_lives" target="_blank">Geography Biographies: Mapping Historic Lives</a> </i>will include custom maps created by the GRMC that identify important
places in the lives of historic figures from around the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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maps include well known subjects like President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther
King, Jr., Amelia Earhart, Princess Diana, and famed Indiana outlaw John
Dillinger. Compilation maps include
Indiana Governors, Indiana Vice Presidents, and Indiana authors that feature interesting
stories about some of the persons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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many of the maps were created to commemorate lesser known heroes of history: A map about Margaret Hamilton tells the story
of the Indiana-born NASA Apollo space program software engineer. Ann Cole Lowe,
the first African American haute couture fashion designer, is featured on a
custom map. Gus Grissom, one of the pioneering Mercury astronauts, is also the
subject of a special commemorative map. And many of the compilation maps
include interesting figures from Negro League Baseball, Suffragettes, World War
II correspondents, and activists from the civil rights movement. And maps about
local Muncie figures will also be featured.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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new map about the life of Billie Jean King will be included in the program and
is the “Map of the Month” for September on display in the front windows of the
GRMC on the second floor of Bracken Library. This map identifies the locations
of her hometown and university, the Grand Slam and Virginia Slims tennis
tournaments won by King, and the locations of organizations honoring King. The
map also includes the location of the epic “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match—the
Houston Astrodome—that is depicted in the upcoming <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4622512/" target="_blank">movie</a> of the same name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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program will be presented in the Colonnade Room at the Center (520 East Main
Street), and free parking is available. The program is free of charge and open
to the public.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03863563162906367536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30005096.post-83839116283958338992017-08-31T14:47:00.000-04:002017-08-31T14:47:22.364-04:00Commemorative Map of the Life of Princess Diana at Ball State University Libraries<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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marks the 20<sup>th</sup> anniversary since the death of Princess Diana. Diana is remembered for her charity work and
her beautiful fashions. In fact,
throughout her life, Princess Diana donated many of her popular gowns for
auctions in support of her favorite charities.
Diana was able to link her stylish fashions with the causes for which
she cared, so the GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC) created a special map
of London (excerpt above—click to enlarge) that also combines fashion and
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map, <i>Diana’s London: Important Places in
the Life of a Princess, </i>includes sketches of some of Diana’s most popular
gowns matched with the locations and events where they were worn. The commemorative map is on display as the “Map
of the Month” in the front windows of the GRMC on the second floor balcony of Bracken
Library through Labor Day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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or download the complete map <a href="https://ballstate.box.com/s/tk1qgnxprsr1u2amw9lk5imzzym0paq3" target="_blank">here</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Houston from Sunday to Wednesday during the Hurricane Harvey flooding. The rescue requests were submitted to several
online databases, and various local rescue groups dispatched boats. “Though not every account could be confirmed,
in aggregate, the animated map offers a glimpse into the geography of the
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