{"id":5508,"date":"2014-11-24T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/?p=5508"},"modified":"2015-03-04T10:57:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T15:57:54","slug":"osher-map-library-twentieth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/2014\/11\/24\/osher-map-library-twentieth\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladd Recognizes 20 Year Anniversary of the Osher Map Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Osher Maps Home\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oshermaps.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5523\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/files\/2014\/11\/Osher-Map_111914d-261x300.jpg\" alt=\"Osher Map_111914d\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/files\/2014\/11\/Osher-Map_111914d-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/files\/2014\/11\/Osher-Map_111914d-785x900.jpg 785w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/files\/2014\/11\/Osher-Map_111914d-174x200.jpg 174w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/files\/2014\/11\/Osher-Map_111914d.jpg 867w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Promotional materials describing the 20th Anniversary of the\u00a0<a title=\"Osher Map Library at USM\" href=\"oshermaps.org\" target=\"_blank\">Osher Map Library<\/a>\u00a0(USM)\u00a0along with Bates cartography resources\u00a0are on display near government documents at Ladd Library.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The impressive Osher Map Library contains a growing collection of more than 400,000 historical and contemporary maps in categories which include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Early Maine State Maps<\/li>\n<li>Maps of Portland, Maine (1836 &#8211; 1981)<\/li>\n<li>15th Century Navigational Charts and Globes<\/li>\n<li>Early Modern and Modern Maps of Spain and Spanish Territories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>With a large portion of its 8,000 digitized maps <a title=\"Osher Maps Search Page\" href=\"http:\/\/oshermaps.org\/search\/\" target=\"_blank\">freely accessible and searchable<\/a>, the Osher Map collection serves as a valuable resource for online scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>Links\u00a0to the\u00a0Osher Map Library website and\u00a0a large collection of additional\u00a0online map resources\u00a0are collected on\u00a0the <a title=\"Ladd Library Map subject guide\" href=\"http:\/\/libguides.bates.edu\/maps\" target=\"_blank\">Ladd Library Map subject guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ladd Library display commemorates the Osher Map Library&#8217;s 20th anniversary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":338,"featured_media":5509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[18,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collection-highlights","category-news-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5511,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508\/revisions\/5511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}