This blog is mostly professional, but may have some personal notes in it as well, as it affects my professional activities.

Its namesake stems from my PhD research into regional identities in the late eighteenth century in what is now southern Bavaria.

I blog about issues related to information literacy, access to library resources, the environment, and the Historical Geography of Rupertsland.

Some sources regarding his life and work.

Fischer, H. (1988) ‘Schön und vortrefflich’: die ‘Charte von Schwaben’: Ein kartengeschichtlich bedeutsames Werk zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts, in: Beiträge zur Landeskunde: Regelmässige Beilage zum Staatsanzeiger für Baden-Württemberg, Juni 1988, 3:1–8.

Fischer, H. (1988) Die ‘Charte von Schwaben’ im Massstab 1:86,400: Erläuterungen, in the series: Reproduktionen alter Karten, Stuttgart.

Fischer, H. (1993) Die ‘Charte von Schwaben’ 1:86,400, Cartographica Helvetica 7 (1993) 1–10.Gradmann, J.J. (1802) Das gelehrte Schwaben: oder Lexicon der jetzt lebenden schwäbischen Schriftsteller, Ravensburg.

Günther, Siegmund (1922) Eine Kartierung Oberschwabens um die Wende des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts, Sitzungsberichte der mathematisch-physikalischen Klasse der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München, Jahrgang 1921 315–330, 317n.

Wolfart, P. (2008) Mapping the Early Modern State: the Work of Ignaz Ambros Amman, 1782–1812, Journal of Historical Geography, 34(1):1-23.

"Ignaz Ambros von Amman" in Wikipedia [short entry but cites Wolfart (2008).]


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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

How do I search for books on Bison

Follow this link from the Virtual Information Commons.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

More on Libguide

I gather you've wrestled with libguides in the past. I was introduced to them just last month, and I'd like to give it a go. I desperately need something flashier for the Off-Campus Students, but would also like to put something together for social work (my other constituency). The latter is a clean slate, and I'd like to get going with that first.


I have a few questions.
Is there a cost, and if free, what's the catch (advertising, valuable information stored off-site in a foreign country etc)?
In your experience is this best managed by the individual librarian, or by committee, for standardisation, ease of use? What has been the student response?
How's it different from a blog? I've been trying to put one together, but I don't like it at all. It is very limiting in so many ways.
learning curve? Time.
does it have usage stats collecting capabilities?
If I think of others, I'll let you know.