• Meet Mary Larsgaard

Benchmarks: People & Jobs

• David Deckelbaum retires from UCLA.
• Stephen Weiss at the Utah State University Library is retiring after 34 years of service with maps.

New Maps of the WAML Region

• April
• May

• Bibliography by Phil Hoehn

Other Map Organization Journals

• Coordinates (MAGERT)
• NEMO Newsletter
• Australian Map Circle
  Newsletter

• The web site for the Fall WAML Meeting is up! You should have received a hard copy registration form in the mail recently, also. Check the web site for updates and for more details. Meetings will be held in the Denver Public Library.


• The Environmental Protection Agency has halted further closures of the EPA libraries in response to heavy
  criticism from lawmakers and advocacy groups. [More]


• GPO announced the Annual Item Selection Update Cycle, which is your opportunity to add item numbers to depository library selection profiles. From June 1 through July 31, 2007, depositories may make additions, which will take effect on October 1, 2007. David Cismowski, Senior Librarian in the
  Government Publications Section of the California State Library,
  a Federal Regional Depository, posted an enlightening discussion of selecting both paper and electronic versions to CALDOC-L.


• Browsable Directory added to the David Rumsey Map Collection: A new directory feature allows users to browse the entire collection of about 16,000 digitized maps by what, where, who, and when.


• The FEMA Map Service Center announced that revisions will soon be available online. [MAPS-L, 18 May 2007 ]


• The Interior Department Seeks Nominations for the National Geospatial Advisory Committee.  The NGAC is being created to advise the Federal government on the management of national geospatial programs and the development of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). More on this.


• Take the twisting lines of contour and iconography of a U.S. Geological Survey topographical map, blend in a high-resolution aerial photograph, and you'll get a TopoPhoto, a new type of map from MyTopo.com. Read more in an article from the "Gear Junkie" column in the Seattle-Post-Intelligencer.


• 10 W. 14th Parkway is the address of the Denver Public Library, where the WAML meeting will be held in October. Use the new "Street View" feature in Google Maps to see street-level photos of our upcoming meeting site.


• The Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. has approved a specification for modeling digital-rights agreements for geospatial data. Read the article from Government Computer News here.


• The location of every identifiable place in the Bible can be located using the Bible Geocoding project. Information on the project is found by scrolling down the home page.


• The global disease alert mapping system, HealthMap, allows you to view maps and links to articles about current health issues such as Avian flu, e. coli outbreaks or salmonella.

• 5th International Conference on Geographic Information Systems (ICGIS-2008) to be held on 2-5 July 2008 at Fatih University in Istanbul, Turkey.


• IFLA* Geography and Map Libraries Section will meet at the World Library and Information Congress, August 17 - 25, 2007, in Durban, South Africa.
  * International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions


• Persistence of Memory: Stewardship of Digital Assets
  A conference on digital preservation presented by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC)
  and co-sponsored by the OCLC Western Service Center, to be held on November 28-29, 2007, in Seattle, Washington.
  Details are coming in August; registration is $350.
  To receive a conference brochure when available,
  please email: Julie Carlson, jcarlson@nedcc.org


• The Rocky Mountain Map Society's Annual Antique Map Fair will be held September 14-15, 2007. To join the Society, contact Jim Hensinger, RMMS Secretary at jhensinger@comcast.net


• The 2007 Map Expo and Annual Meeting of the Road Map Collectors Association (RMCA ) takes place in the Dallas suburb of Irving, Texas, on Sept. 21-22. All events take place at the Hilton Garden Inn at Dallas-Ft. Worth Airport (South).

  The event is being held in conjunction with the Texas Map Society and their exhibit, "Texas Road Maps and Motoring History." RMCA registration includes admission to the exhibit. Register by September 7. See MAPS-L, 9 May 2007, or the link above for further details.

• WAML Meetings:
  • Denver, October 24-27, 2007
  • Las Vegas, March 12-15, 2008
  • San Diego, Fall 2008
  • Salt Lake City, Spring 2009

• The Journal of Maps would like to announce the publication of a new special issue on "Three-dimensional Geological Mapping for Groundwater Applications."


• USGS Pilot Project Makes High-Quality Landsat Data Available Through Web at EarthExplorer.


• The U.S. Geological Survey and the federal interagency MultiResolution Land Characteristics Consortium (MRLC) recently announced the completion of a massive database that describes the land surface condition of each 30-meter cell of land in the conterminous United States. Nearly six such cells - each 98 feet long and wide - would fit on a football field. The 2001 National Land Cover Database (NLCD 2001) and its products are available at http://www.mrlc.gov/.
  Read the complete USGS announcement.