Mapping the World
Geographic Coverage
The project aims to cover a large part of Western Europe, Central and South America, India, North Africa and the Middle East as well as maps of the World for post-1850 holdings. Each of the partners will initially concentrate on different geographic areas in order to increase coverage. At a later stage, each institution will be able to benefit from the core of records created by another library for countries in which they also have holdings. To increase the currency and relevance of Mapping the World, the partners will also be giving priority to countries that make the political headlines during the duration of the project (e.g. Afghanistan). The former Soviet Union will not be covered in any detail as part of this retrospective conversion.
By July 2002, the holdings of six of the
partner libraries had been covered for the following countries:
in Africa: Algeria, Botswana, Congo (Democratic Republic), Egypt, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco,
Namibia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan and Zimbabwe; in the
Middle East: Iran, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia; in South America: Chile, Guyana and
Uruguay; and Australia.
Alphabetical listing
of countries completed and project work in progress.
| Countries | Library Code | Work currently in progress |
| Europe: France, Italy and Switzerland | MAN | Work continued to 31 July |
| Africa: various countries | CAM | In progress |
| Australia | OX | Work continued to 31 July |
Alphabetical listing: the
main Country listing
Regional Maps: links to maps of World regions and countries
For more details of the Country coverage for each institution, follow the Summary links in the table below.
| OX | Map Room | Bodleian Library, Oxford | Summary Completed project work 31/7/02 |
| CAM | Map Department | Cambridge University Library | Summary |
| BU | Map Library, School of Geography and Environmental Sciences |
Birmingham University | Summary Completed project work 31/8/01 |
| ULL | Map Collection University of London Library (at Senate House) |
University of London Library | Summary Completed project work 30/9/01 |
| MAN | Map Collection, School of Geography Library |
Manchester University | Summary Completed project work 31/7/02 |
| ED | Map Collection Main Library | Edinburgh University Library | Summary Completed project work 30/11/01 |
| IMP | Geology Library (collections now housed in the Central Library) |
Imperial College, London | Summary Completed project work 28/2/02 |
Notes:
In some partner libraries, holdings for an individual country may be very small
(less than 10 maps)
compared to the holdings of the Copyright deposit libraries.
Maps taken from the Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection at the
University of Texas at Austin.
[Courtesy of The General Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin].