Circulating map library (Ann Arbor District Library)

The ever-helpful AADL Research Blog notes that the library has a maps collection - and it circulates. Van writes:

When I go on vacation I need maps, maps of cities I will be visiting and maps of states I will be driving through.

I borrow the maps from the library’s map files on the Second Floor of the Downtown Library. The library has maps for Michigan cities and regions, for states, for most major cities in the United States, and for foreign countries and cities. The maps circulate for four weeks.

During a recent trip up north I found where I was going with the aid of street maps of Mackinaw City, Mackinac Island, Harbor Springs, Petoskey, Charlevoix, and Traverse City and a regional Michigan map of the Northern Tip of Michigan.

In the past year the map files helped with maps of San Francisco, Napa and Sonoma counties, Chicago, Boston, Greenville (S.C.), Chapel Hill (N.C.), and Ithaca (N.Y.)

I'd be happy to highlight other libraries with good circulating current map collections - anyone have a favorite? (Google is utterly unhelpful in answering this question.)

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[Dale]

Dallas Public Library has an excellent collection of circulating maps, in the Government Information Center (the 6th floor of the Central Library).