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“Globes have a very low survival rate,” explained Ian Fowler, director of the Osher Map Library (OML) at the University of Southern Maine. Made to be touched and spun, globes wear down over the years, ...

Promotional materials describing the 20th Anniversary of the Osher Map Library (USM) along with Bates cartography resources are on display near government documents at Ladd Library. The impressive ...

Chromolithography, despite sounding like something only a science professor would understand, is sometimes called the democratic art. That’s because, in the latter half of the 1800s, the color ...

PORTLAND, Maine — For many of us, GPS has been a game changer - a tap, a voice, a turn-by-turn path, will get you there. But there is something special about a physical map that the GPS in your car or ...

From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for navigation — but... From 400-year-old globes to cosmic shrouds: A Maine ...