The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center (LMC) is a non-profit organization that provides stewardship of the Boston Public Library's (BPL) cartographic collections. The LMC moved into a new space in 2011 that displays rotating exhibitions and opens the collection for public inquiry, increasing awareness of reference services and research within the collection. In-person research numbers have declined slightly since 2012 as the LMC grows their digital collections. The LMC has made additional efforts to address increasing interest from tech-enabled researchers through the creation of a new digital collections website, by use of personas to inform design and providing workshops aimed at lowering the bar for entry into using GIS, and creating digital spatial indexes to supplement paper map indexes.

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大型公共图书馆的地图和地理空间研究与参考服务：Leventhal地图中心概述

诺曼·莱文塔尔地图中心（LMC）是一家非营利性组织，负责管理波士顿公共图书馆（BPL）的制图馆藏。LMC在2011年进入了一个新的空间，该空间将展示轮流展览，并开放收藏供公众查询，从而提高了收藏服务中参考服务和研究的意识。自2012年以来，随着LMC越来越多的数字馆藏，面对面的研究数量略有下降。LMC通过创建新的数字馆藏网站，使用人物角色来告知设计并提供旨在降低使用GIS的门槛以及创建数字空间的研讨会的方式，做出了更多努力来解决技术研究人员日益增长的兴趣索引以补充纸质地图索引。