{"id":3760,"date":"2013-06-07T13:43:39","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T17:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=3760"},"modified":"2013-06-07T13:44:53","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T17:44:53","slug":"mapping-libraries-and-museums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/07\/mapping-libraries-and-museums.html","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Libraries (and Museums)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Grimes, of the <a title=\"Institute of Museum and Library Services\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imls.gov\/\">Institute of Museum and Library Services<\/a>, has created a couple of interactive maps that detail the saturation of libraries and museums across the United States:<\/p>\n<p>Peruse the <strong><a title=\"Map of Libraries\" href=\"http:\/\/justgrimes.cartodb.com\/tables\/plout10\/embed_map?title=true&amp;description=true&amp;search=false&amp;shareable=false&amp;cartodb_logo=true&amp;scrollwheel=true&amp;sql=&amp;zoom=3&amp;center_lat=34.369276232760406&amp;center_lon=-90.23102348571769\">Map of Public Libraries<\/a><\/strong> for a few minutes, and zoom in to your local area to note the prevalence of libraries.\u00a0 It uses data from 2010, so it may be missing libraries that have opened since then (like my 2-year-old <a title=\"Orange Branch - Delaware County Library\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delaware.lib.oh.us\/locations\/orange-branch\">local branch<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Justin also created a <strong><a title=\"Map of Museums\" href=\"http:\/\/justgrimes.cartodb.com\/tables\/mc051313\/embed_map?title=false&amp;description=true&amp;search=true&amp;shareable=false&amp;cartodb_logo=true&amp;scrollwheel=true&amp;sql=&amp;zoom=3&amp;center_lat=34.52466147177172&amp;center_lon=-101.07421875\">Map of Museums<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Do the same type of search, and see what exists in your area.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Atlantic Magazine - Every Library and Museum in America Mapped\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/neighborhoods\/2013\/06\/every-library-and-museum-america-mapped\/5826\/\">Atlantic magazine notes<\/a> that the number of libraries in the US (17,000) is greater than either McDonald&#8217;s (14,000) or Starbucks (11,000).\u00a0 Not a bad statistic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rudy.leon\">Rudy Leon<\/a> for sharing this information!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Grimes, of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, has created a couple of interactive maps that detail the saturation of libraries and museums across the United States: Peruse the Map of Public Libraries for a few minutes, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/07\/mapping-libraries-and-museums.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2934,2935,2936,2943,2946],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-government","category-groups","category-libraries","category-maps"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-YE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}