Today (Thursday, 25th), Heather and I joined the Antique Maps tour at COGS. Our guides were Andrew Hannam and Chelsea Heighton. The collection contains over 2500 antique maps, atlases and books that once belonged to Walter Morrison, David Raymond and Leslie Marcus. The event was organized by the Centre of Rural Aging and Health (CORAH), NSCC Annapolis Valley campus, Middleton.
I knew both Walter and Dave from my time teaching at COGS. From the tour, I gained a new appreciation of Walter’s interest in the history of map production. At the same time, it was good to see the local maps for the Annapolis Valley, Louisburg , Halifax. It is hard to estimate the value of these maps. They deserve a wider audience, perhaps with an exhibition in Halifax.
Walking the corridors, I noticed a display by the COGS Library which named the current programs offered on-site and on-line at COGS. Later I returned to the campus to photograph this display.
Resident programs (2023-24) include:
- Survey
- Marine Geomatics
- GIS
- Remote Sensing
- GIS Technician
- IT Programming
Online programs include:
- Cartography and Geovisualization
- Geospatial Data Analytics.
Residential-Online programs include:
- GIS
- GIS technician.
This display was the first time that I have been able to discern programs that are solely online, and those that are available both on-site and on-line.
Hopefully this will help the wider public better understand our modern learning environment.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Andrew Hannam and Chelsea Heighton for the tour and the display.
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