• Meet Janet Collins

Benchmarks: People & Jobs

• New GIS Coordinator at UCSD: Tracey Hughes
  
• Marie Tharp dies at 86.
  Also, search the NYT obituaries for Tharp.

New Maps of the WAML Region

• June
• July

• WAML Election Results: Congratulations Mary Douglass, Vice-President/Pres.-Elect!
  Mary is the History, Travel & Maps Librarian at The Seattle Public Library.
• CUAC Meeting minutes are now on the CUAC web site.
• Human IT 8.3: Dynamic Maps
  A new issue of Human IT is now freely available on the Web. This issue's theme is Digital Maps, and it is guest edited by Patrik Svensson at HumLab, Ume niversity, Sweden. It includes an article by Michael Buckland (UCB) on The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative Experience.
• UC Libraries Join Google's Book Project
  From the San Francisco Chronicle, on 9 August 2006.
• Microsoft and NGA announce a CRADA to use the Microsoft® Virtual Earth™ platform to provide geospatial support for humanitarian, peacekeeping and national-security efforts.

• WAML Meeting in Flagstaff, September 13-16
  Registration and payment: needs to be received by August 25 in Bellingham, WA, before Janet leaves for AZ!
• NACIS 2006 - Madison, Wisconsin October 18-21
• The 12th OLAC Biennial Conference,
  October 27-29, 2006
  Presenter: Paige Andrew
  This basic maps cataloging workshop will introduce attendees to the three descriptive areas of the bibliographic record that typically cause concern and consternation.
• ALA Midwinter in Seattle: Jan. 19-24, 2007
  A rare ALA meeting on the Left Coast.

Mary Larsgaard reports that MARBI approved the following proposals:

• 2006-06: Definition of Field 034 for Geographic Coordinates in the MARC 21 Authority Format
• 2.2.2 |x, |y - Associating coordinate data with dates
• 2.2.3 |z - Coordinate data for celestial bodies
• Section 3 - defines the subfields of 034 Coded Cartographic Mathematical Data (R).

Grants

• 2006-2007 National Endowment for the Humanities and Institute of Museum and Library Services Grants
  (From an email from ESRI Grant Notices reflector, 7 Jul 2006)
  Application deadlines vary by grant, ranging from July 25, 2006, to May 15, 2007. Fifteen grant opportunities are available through the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services where geographic information system (GIS) technology is strongly applicable and eligible under the requirements of the grants described.
  ESRI provides a matrix of the applicability of GIS for these grants and grant application information in the ESRI Sample Text document, accessible by registering or updating your information on the ESRI Grant Notification System. For additional information about GIS solutions for this grant, please contact ESRI's grant coordinator at 208-286-0220 or grantcoord@esri.com.

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New Maps & Cartographic Materials of Interest

Thanks to Linda Zellmer, CUAC Liaison to USGS, for the following:

• SILS Bulletin 06-13 Free Products
• SILS Bulletin 06-14 Rebuilding Mount St Helens
• SILS Bulletin 06-15 Available Ecoregion Maps
• SILS Bulletin 06-16 Water Use for the Lower Klamath &Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuges