(Photo by Roger Farrington) JP resident Alex Krieger (standing), a board member of the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, joins founder Leventhal (left) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Rafael Reif at a Feb. 1 dinner at the main BPL branch in Copley Square, where Mayor Thomas Menino was given the center’s Explorer Award. The event raised $1 million for center, which supports the BPL’s extensive collection of historic maps and atlases.