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As a former librarian, I have had to contend with policies on
meetings and they always have not been consistent. The New York Map
Society is an "outside" group. I trust the Mercator Society which is
sort of a "friends" group for the Map Division, will be allowed to meet
as before. Libraries are beset with something akin to political
correctness and can't be seen playing favorites so the simplest answer
is to not allow outside groups at all. Different libraries have
different policies and enforced with varying diligence at different
times. It would be instructive to learn the background for this ruling.
Was another group a problem leading to avoiding outside groups
altogether? Did the administration suddenly discover that the NYMS was
an outside organization and not part of the Map Division? Was a new
person put in the position to make this decision?
It might be instructive for other institutions (or the map folk
therein) to note meeting policies and how this effects local map groups.
"You can take the boy away from the maps, but you can't take the maps
away from the boy."
JBP
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