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Left to right: Marcy Bidney, Lisa Sutton, Angie Cope, Jovanka Ristic, Susan Peschel, Kay Guildner.
Professional Staff Marcy Bidney, Curator Angie Cope, Cataloging Librarian Susan Peschel, Visual Resources Librarian Jovanka Ristic, Reference Librarian Lisa Sutton, Digital Spatial Data Librarian
Support Staff Ann Barnish, Preservation
Student Assistants Stephen Appel, GIS Student Assistant
Past Curators Chris Baruth 1995-2011 Roman Drazniowsky 1978-1993
NEH Grant Project Staff Susan Peschel, AGS Library Visual Resources Librarian and NEH Grant Photographic Collections Coordinator Ann Hanlon, UWM Libraries Digital Collections Coordinator
Motion Picture Film Preservation Project for NEH Grant: Robert P. Garvey, Student Motion Picture Film Specialist
CLIR Grant Project Staff
AGSL Staff Member Biographies Marcy Bidney Bidney previously was Assistant Professor and Head of the Donald W. Hamer Maps Library, University Libraries, at Pennsylvania State University (2007-2012) and Unit Coordinator, Governmental and Legal Information Unit, and Maps/GIS Librarian, Leslie F. Malpass Library, at Western Illinois University (2003-2007). She earned her MLIS, magna cum laude, from Drexel University; her MA, magna cum laude, in Geography/Urban Studies, from Temple University; and her BA, summa cum laude, in Geography, from Rowan University. Bidney has published articles in the Journal of Map and Geography Libraries (“Can Coordinates in Catalog Records Be Useful?”), OCLC Systems and Services (“Creating the Virtual Map Drawer: Bridging the Gap between Spatial Data Infrastructures and Map Libraries”), and other journals, and has delivered numerous presentations at national and international conferences. She has served on several editorial and advisory boards, including Resources for College Libraries, a cooperative project of the Association of College Libraries, Choice Magazine and Bowker (2009-present). Bidney’s professional affiliations include the American Library Association (where she has served as Chair of the Map and Geography Roundtable, 2010-11); Cartographic Users Advisory Counsel (Co-chair, 2009-11); International Federation of Library Associations (Government Information and Official Publications Committee, Secretary, 2006-11); and Association of American Geographers. Marcy may be contacted at bidney@uwm.edu
In 2005 Angie became the moderator of the popular map librarian discussion list MAPS-L. Angie has been active in the American Library Association's (ALA) Map and Geospatial Information Round Table presenting at conferences, publishing and serving as the Collection Development contact for that group. She served as an editor for the MAGERT Coordinates online journal. She is a member of the Wisconsin Library Association (WLA), Road Map Collectors Association and the Washington Map Society. Angie's interest in increasing access to collections leads her in many directions including posting archival finding aids to the website, adding images to the AGS Library Flickr page, posting at the UWM Libraries Facebook page and adding relevant information to Wikipedia. Angie has an M.L.I.S. from UW - Milwaukee ; an M.S. in Resource Planning and a B.S. in Geography both from Southwest Missouri State University (SMSU). She may be reached at acope@uwm.edu Susan M. Peschel Jovanka R. Ristic Ms. Ristic received her BS degree in botany, MS in botany/zoology (specializing in limnology), and MLS in library science, all from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She co-authored a series of bathymetric charts of the Great Lakes with her father, cartographer Ratko J. Ristic. Jovanka Ristic can be contacted at ristic@uwm.edu. Lisa Sutton Lisa holds an MLS from Indiana University - Bloomington, an MS in Environmental and Plant Biology (Forest Ecology) from Ohio University, and a BS in Environmental Science from Valparaiso University. She can be reached schellil@uwm.edu.
Past Curators Chris Baruth, 1995-2011 Christopher Baruth retired as Curator of the American Geographical Society Library at the UWM Libraries, where he worked for 31 years in 2011. He started at AGSL in 1980 as Map and Imagery Librarian and was appointed Curator in 1995. In his leadership role, Baruth oversaw a substantial increase of resources, including the Archives of the Association of American Geographers and the McColl Collection of China-related materials; the procurement of a major NEH grant for photographic preservation; the expansion of visiting fellowship programs; a comprehensive recataloging project; and the establishment of digital spatial data services. He also initiated the ongoing digitization of the collection and its placement online.
“Chris really brought the AGSL from the 19th century into the 21st
century,” said Ewa Barczyk, Director of UWM Libraries. “He guided efforts to
update and automate its antiquated card catalog, preserve thousands of
deteriorating maps, and scan selected AGSL materials for internet access.”
Baruth created a popular speaker series, Academic Adventurers, that offers He received the Honors Award for Outstanding Achievement from the Geography and Map Division of the Special Libraries Association in 1993, and the Honors Award from the Map and Geography Round Table of the American Library Association in 2001. His publications include GEODEX: GEOgraphic InDEX System for Map Series (1988), a system that allowed AGSL to build one of the largest automated cartobibliographies in the world with over 350,000 entries; articles in Geographical Review, Journal of the International Map Collectors’ Society, and Care and Conservation of Manuscripts; and a chapter in The Map Library in the New Millennium. Baruth has been active nationally and internationally in his field, serving as Executive Director of the North American Cartographic Information Society from 1990 to 2001, and as a member of the Standing Committee for Geography and Map Libraries of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions 1999-2005. Baruth received emeritus status from the Chancellor.
Roman Drazniowsky, 1962-1993 Born in 1922, Drazniowsky joined the staff of the American Geographical Society in 1962 as map curator. As the financial position of the society began to deteriorate in the early 1970s, "Dr. D" as he was called, assumed added responsibility, eventually taking charge of the library and the editorship of Current Geographical Publications. When the library and map collection sought a new home, Drazniowsky was a key figure in the process which ultimately selected UW-Milwaukee (UWM) as the new home of what came to be called the AGS Collection (AGSC). It was only natural that Drazniowsky followed his collection to Milwaukee in 1978, and became its first curator: he oversaw the collection's move, its unpacking, and its redeployment in its new space at UWM. In his fifteen years in Milwaukee, he was able to pass on not only his knowledge of the collection, but also much of the lore of the society and his deep understanding of map and geography librarianship as a profession. In addition to his role with the AGSC, Drazniowsky also held adjunct faculty appointments in UWM’s Geography Department and its School of Library and Information Science (now School of Information Studies), and taught courses on cartographic resources and map librarianship (as he had done at Columbia University before moving to Milwaukee). Drazniowsky retired from UWM in 1993, only to pursue an active second career at the Free University of Ukraine, in Munich, Germany, where he taught geography, and served as rector. Drazniowsky's busy retirement did not permit many return visits to the library though he did serve on the AGSC Advisory Committee.
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