Benchmarks: People & Jobs

• Member of the Month:
  Tim Ross


• Janet Collins is retiring!
  


• Julie Sweetkind-Singer has been accepted into the Frye Leadership Institute.


• Linda Zellmer goes to Western Illinois


• Sean Ahearn, President of UCGIS, has been appointed to the National
  Geospatial Advisory Committee by Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne.


• Don't forget: WAML has a Jobs Blog!

New Maps of the WAML Region

• December
• January

Articles about Mapping

• Bibliography by Phil Hoehn

Book Reviews

• Books Reviewed in 2007 in the I.B.

• Coordinates (MAGERT)


• NEMO Newsletter


• Cartographic Perspectives (NACIS)


• Australian Map Circle
  Newsletter


• ACMLA Bulletin

• Registration extended! Don't miss the Spring WAML Meeting to be held in sunny, exciting Las Vegas. We will have demos of large format and rare book scanners and of map preservation, and the hands-on map encapsulation workshop will now include a question and answer session on map preservation in general. We will have talks on flood hazard mapping, the Spanish Trail, southern Nevada history, and maybe GIS in landscape architecture. We will attend a Cirque du Soleil show, have an early arrivers dinner at a buffet, eat in a restaurant once owned by Liberace, and visit Death Valley with a geologist and a botanist. There may even be wildflowers in Death Valley! Please send in your registration no later than 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 1st..


• The editors of the Journal of Map and Geography Libraries/Geoscapes, Mary Larsgaard and Paige Andrew, announce the journal's Best Paper of the Year Award.


• Have you seen the lovely re-designed CUAC web site? The minutes from the April 2007 CUAC meeting have been posted.


• Did you hear this story on NPR Weekend Edition in mid-February: Lighthouse for the Blind in San Francisco just launched the first-ever program to provide blind people with Braille maps.


• Have your maps included in the new "We Are Here" traveling archive.


• Check this out! Take the earthquake preparedness quiz. It only takes a couple minutes. Then forward to everyone you know!


• Take a look at GeoURL , a location-to-URL reverse directory that lets you find web sites by their proximity to a given location. Find your neighbor's blog, perhaps, or the web page of the restaurants near you. GeoURL lists over 2 million sites worldwide. Click on the map to find web sites associated with that place; you could also put a different set of lat/long coordinates in the resutling url. Add your library's web site to this database at http://geourl.org/add.html.


• Have you used Web 2.0 tools to combine GIS and history? You could be a presenter at the Social Science History Association meeting in Florida in October 2008.
• Applications are solicited for an annual two-month memorial fellowship in honor of David Woodward, a founding editor of The History of Cartography.

• David Rumsey will be the keynote speaker at CARTO 2008, the ACMLA Meeting at UBC in Vancouver from Tuesday, May 13th to Friday, May 16th, 2008. Carto will be a joint conference between ACMLA and CCA, the Cdn. Cartographic Ass'n., whose members are cartographers, professors and GISers.


• ICA Commission on Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage will present their 3rd International Workshop on "Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage" to be held in Barcelona, 26-27 June 2008.


• In August 2008, Québec City will host the 74th IFLA Conference, the World Library and Information Congress. “Libraries without borders: Navigating towards global understanding” is the theme of this Conference where delegates will be invited to reflect on the fundamental values that diversity, complementarity, comprehension, cooperation and solidarity represent in the context of globalisation. For a full view of the conference, please go to http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla74/index.htm.


• 5th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, GIScience 2008, will be held September 23-26, 2008, in Park City, Utah, USA.
  


• Future WAML Meetings:
  • Las Vegas, March 12-15, 2008
  • San Diego, October 1-4, 2008
  • Salt Lake City, April 29-May 2, 2009
  • Yosemite, Fall 2009

• Mary Larsgaard reports that the Joint Steering Committee for RDA (Resource Description and Access) still expects the first full "draft" of the entire publication, which she estimates will be about 1,000 pages, to appear in July 2008.
  
  The JSC continues to plan for early 2009 for publication.
  Mary estimates it will take about 18-24 months for RDA to be implemented following its publication, probably in 2011. Full details can be found at:
  http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/jsc/rda.html

• Did you notice that the Member of the Month is from Canada?

• A new Census Atlas has just been published.

• Announcing a free trial of Cartographica Online. Cartographica, the international journal for geographic information and geovisualization, is now available electronically and includes the complete back file of previously published articles going back to issue 1.1, when Cartographica was known as The Cartographer.