6A • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
TUESDAY,APRIL30,2002
CHRISTINA NEFF/KANSAN
Donna Koepp has been working at the University of Kansas for 16 years in the T.R. Smith Map Collection and GeoMedia Service on the first floor of Anschutz Library. Koepp will be retiring to take a job on the campus of Harvard University.
Map librarian takes job at Harvard University
By Adam Pracht
Kansan staff writer
She has been dealing with maps for 16 years at the University of Kansas, but at the end of this semester. Donna Koepp will just need a map to the campus of Harvard University.
Koepp will retire from her position as the librarian in the T.R. Smith Map Collection and GeoMedia Services on the first floor of Anschutz Library. She has taken a job as the head of government documents and the head of reference and instruction for the social science program at the Ivy League school in Cambridge, Mass.
For Koepp, working with government documents will be a return to her roots as a librarian.
Koepp started at the University of Kansas in November 1985 and soon became the head of government documents and maps. In
Spring 2000, she handed over control of government documents to focus solely on the map library collection.
"I'm taking off the map hat and putting on the government documents hat again," she said.
She said that her biggest accomplishment while at the University was a 16-volume index of government-issued maps from 1789 to 1969. When she finished the set in 1997 after 13 years, she made the set of maps accessible for the first time. Available maps range from ones of the moon to everyday road maps of the United States.
"We're making plans and setting priorities." Koepp said. "There is always more to do than there is possible time to do it."
Sara Kelly, Manhattan senior, has worked in the map library since she was a freshman and plans to work there for another year. She said that Koepp was important to
the map library because she encouraged the use of modern technology, helped to organize and index the collection and worked to gain funding for the library.
"She's really making it accessible to the public and hopefully making them realize that a collection like this is pretty important," Kelly said.
When she heard Koepp was leaving, Kelly said she was worried what would happen to the library. Koepp said the University has not yet started the search for her replacement.
Kelly said she hoped that the University would make the map library a priority even after Koepp was gone.
"Hopefully they won't forget us and hopefully they'll realize that she was important." Kelly said.
Contact Pracht at apracht@kansan.com. This story was edited by Molly Gise.
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