Barbara McCorkle died on November 1, 2017. While raising six children she earned a graduate degree in library science at Emporia State University Teachers College and went on to become associate librarian at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas. In 1972, McCorkle was appointed head of the Reference Department and the map curator at Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University. Simultaneously she established herself as a preeminent carto-bibliographer. She published her magnum opus, New England in Early Printed Maps, 1513–1800, in 2001, at the age of eighty-one. Her last publication, A Carto-Bibliography of the Maps in Eighteenth-Century British and American Geography Books, was published eight years later.
Lawrence, KS
United States