While sorting through and cataloguing the rare map collection at the BSA, I noticed that a number of the maps had handwritten notations and drawn lines on them. These annotations highlight specific points of interest, delineate routes or paths between one place and another, and, in the case of inscriptions, ...
What's in a Map? Maps contain common elements: by definition there is the actual “map” – a conventionalised visual representation, usually two dimensional, of geographic space – but often a title, scale, and some type of orientation in the form of a compass rose or latitude and longitude lines. In ...
Library Science recognises that knowledge organisation systems, grouping related materials together, impose particular views of the world. Conscious and unconscious decisions play a part in how these organisational systems are created. In Part I of this Library Story, I explore how the BSA Map Collection was organised and the implications ...
The BSA Library has a significant cartographic collection. Thanks to the invaluable support of outgoing IT Officer, Hallvard Indgjerd, we can now offer a digital tool that allows searching and browsing of around 1,000 British Admiralty and Greek Army maps from the 19th and 20th centuries. Library Research Assistant Emily ...