Map Cataloger Vi Moorhouse Retires from GPO

John A Stevenson of the University of Delaware sent this email to MAPS-L on 28 Aug 2007:

Administrative Notes' July 15/Aug. 15, 2007 issue notes the retirement of Vi Moorhouse, a GPO Map Cataloger honored by ALA MAGERT in 1998. http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/pubs/adnotes/ad7_8_1507.html#8

It's nice to see GPO acknowledging the work of someone whose efforts have had such an impact on so many libraries. The article states that she "contributed well over 100,000 bibliographic records to the Catalog of United States Government Publications and initiated many geographic name authority records in the Library of Congress authority database, providing a deep contribution to the field of geophysical data."

Upon receiving her MAGERT award, Vi indicated that she was just glad that she'd been able to work with all the maps. Always thoughtful of the end user, Vi once explained how she had devised SuDocs classification numbers for a map series showing various environmental features so that they could be filed, by state, in meaningful layers. A paper GIS in the map drawer. What could be more helpful?

-- John A. Stevenson Coordinator, Government Documents and Maps Processing Unit University of Delaware Library varken@UDel.edu