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News
- WAML's Fall Meeting in Denver - the 40th anniversary! - was a roaring success. Read President Mary Douglass' summary of it.
- The Spring 2008 WAML Meeting in Las Vegas, hosted by Kathy Rankin, will be held on the UNLV campus, both in the Stan Fulton building and in the UNLV main library. It will include a tour of the Atomic Testing Museum, and the field trip will be to Death Valley. The field trip will be led by a geologist and a botanist, and there will be a stop on the way at the ghost town of Rhyolite. The feature article of the November issue of National Geographic is on Death Valley. You can check your library's print copy, or go to
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2007-11/death-valley/cahill-text.html
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Rare, Antiquarian, or Just Plain Old:
Cataloging Pre-Twentieth Century Cartographic Resources
The workbook used in MAGERT’s preconference on cataloging early maps and atlases, which was held last June at the Library of Congress, is now available for purchase from MAGERT for $40. The workbook includes illustrations and cataloging examples taken from sheet maps, atlas plates and atlases, focusing on early and pre-twentieth century cartographic materials. Some of the areas covered by the workbook include elements of description, transcription, mathematical data and supportive research. The $40 price includes shipping and handling.
Orders should be sent to Jim Coombs, MAGERT Publications Distribution Manager, Maps Library, Missouri State University, 901 S. National,
#175, Springfield, MO 65897 Email: JimCoombs@missouristate.edu
- 2008 Calendars: "Maps of Tibet: Historic Images of the High Plateau" is a calendar featuring images of
Tibet through the ages in painting and cartography. The maps span the period from 1680 to 1942. Published by the International Campaign for Tibet, the maps are available at
http://shop3.mailordercentral.com/tibetmerchandise/
Item Number: CAL08,
Unit Price: $13.99
- Have you seen "Ask City"? You can search for toy stores, quilt shops, or book stores for your upcoming trip to Las Vegas in March.
You can use the tools at the bottom to draw a circle about your area of interest.
- At maps.ask.com, you can get walking directions - as opposed to driving directions - that take into account the topography of your route.
Helpful if you live in a hilly city. Click on the "Driving" and "Walking" buttons to see the comparison.
- EPA Remote Sensing Archive in Las Vegas, Nevada, has
recently changed its email address to: epaarchive@embarqmail.com
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AGI launches "Pulse of Earth Science" website, on the status of earth science education as part of Earth Science Week 2007.
Read the announcement as posted to MAPS-L.
- USGS and AASG have created A Geologic Time Scale and Color Scheme for Use
in Creating Geologic Maps.
- More USGS news: USGS Web Sites
Now Using the Google Search Technologies
- New Scientist.com reports the new
Times Atlas includes changes to reflect 'environmental disasters'.
Conferences and Classes
- IASSIST: Call for papers for the 34th International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) annual conference which will be held at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California,
USA, May 27-30, 2008. This year's conference, Technology of Data: Collection, Communication, Access and Preservation,
examines the role of technology and tools in various aspects of the data life cycle.
- ESRI's 2008 CA/HI/NV Regional User Group Conference will be held
February 6-8, 2008 in Sacramento.
- Future WAML Meetings:
- Las Vegas, March 12-15, 2008
- San Diego, October 1-4, 2008
- Salt Lake City, Spring 2009
- Yosemite, Fall 2009
Cataloging News
- David Allen, Editor, announces that Coordinates Series B, No. 8 is now
available for viewing at http://www.sunysb.edu/libmap/coordinates.htm.
"Problems That Arise When Providing Geographic
Coordinate Information for Cataloged Maps"is by Jorge A. Gonzalez,
and should be of particular interest to catalogers, and to
others who are involved in the development or use of technology that
enables the retrieval of maps by geographic coordinates.
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Canadian News
- Check the upcoming November-December issue of News & Notes for news from Tim Ross about the ACMLA Meeting
at UBC in Vancouver in May 2008.
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