Benchmarks: People & Jobs

• Member of the Month:
  Kathy Rankin


• Linda Newman, Geoscience & Map Librarian in the DeLaMare Library, University of Nevada, Reno, has been elected Chair of the Nevada State Board on Geographic Names for a 2 year term. She has served on the Board since 1982 as the representative for the University of Nevada, Reno.


• AUL for Library Systems, Digital Library Operations and the Map and Imagery Lab at UC Santa Barbara, Larry Carver, has retired. Since 1967 Larry has been the chief architect of the Map and Imagery Lab and the internationally recognized Alexandria Digital Library. He will return in August to work part-time as Director of Information Strategy and PI for the multi-million dollar NDIP Library of Congress grant.



• Don't forget: WAML has a Jobs Blog!

New Maps of the WAML Region

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Articles about Mapping

• Bibliography by Phil Hoehn
  

• Coordinates (MAGERT)
  


• NEMO Newsletter


• Cartographic Perspectives (NACIS)


• Australian Map Circle
  Newsletter


• ACMLA Bulletin
  
• CUAC : Cartographic Users Advisory Council


• Scottish Map Forum Newsletter
  

• USGS announced that the Landsat archive, 35 years of images of the earth's surface, will be soon be available at no charge. Check out the announcement on the Landsat page.


• The California State Auto Club, which serves Northern California, Nevada and Utah, is phasing out its 12-person cartographic unit by year-end, the association said. Members will still be able to get paper maps at no charge, but they will be produced at AAA national headquarters in Heathrow, Fla. Here's the story from the San Francisco Chronicle's online paper, SFGate.


• Dawn Youngblood announced on maps-l that as the new chair of the Cartography Speciality Group of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) she plans to develop a directory of all of the various map competitions. She plans to place this on the CSG web site. Contact Dawn to report a map competition. You can contact Dr. Dawn Youngblood, Curator, Edwin J. Foscue Map Library at Southern Methodist University, at dyoungbl@smu.edu


• The California GIS Council (CGC), the primary geographic information systems coordinating council for the state, has formally endorsed the GIS Certification Institute's (GISCI) certification program for GIS professionals. Here's an announcement from Directions Magazine.


• The annual update period for Federal Depository Library Program item selection amendments began June 2 and will end July 31. Any additions made before July 31 will become effective October 1 (the start of the federal fiscal year). For more information and links to essential pages of information click on: http://www.fdlp.gov/latest/amendment08.html



• Apply for American Geographical Society Library Fellowships for 2009 by October 31, 2008. Awards will be announced on or before December 1, 2008 for fellowships to be held during 2009.


• Over 100 new maps have been added to the Rumsey Historical Maps in the Gallery Layer of Google Earth and to a new layer in Google Maps. You can also download links to all 120 historical maps in Google Earth.


• Check out these 3 interesting maps about the economic impact of high gas prices, from the New York Times.


The USGS and the National Archives signed an agreement meant to ensure the preservation and access of the EROS archive of historic satellite imagery and aerial photography currently archived by the USGS at its Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

• The Society for the History of Discoveries 2008 annual meeting will be held from October 5 - 7, 2008 in Arlington Texas*. The meeting will be held in conjunction with the Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography (see next item) on October 3rd, and the meetings of the Texas Map Society and Philip Lee Phillips Society (October 4). The preliminary program, hotel and transportation details can be found at
  http://www.sochistdisc.org/annual_meetings/annual_2008/annual_meeting_2008.htm


• Sixth Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography will be held Friday, October 3, at the Central Library of The University of Texas at Arlington.
  For further information, check here.


• 2008 ESRI Education User Conference (EdUC)
  August 2–5, 2008 at the Marriott Hotel & Marina, San Diego, California.


• The Applied Geography Conferences will be held in Wilmington, DE, October 15-18.



• 11th annual Road Map Collector's Association (RMCA)
  Map Expo -- Friday, Oct. 3 and Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008 -- in Hammond, Indiana.



• Future WAML Meetings:
  • San Diego, October 1-4, 2008
  • Salt Lake City, April 29-May 2, 2009

• News from OCLC: A new OCLC Tech Bulletin describes changes to subfields for the 034 (Coded Cartographic Mathematical Data) in bibliographic records, and indexing of 034 subfield z for bibliographic and 034 subfields d, e, f, g and z in authority records.


• Barbara B. Tillett, Chair of the IFLA Meeting of Experts on an International Cataloguing Code requested comments on the final draft of the Statement of International Cataloguing Principles. The draft is available on the group's wiki.
  

• G. Salim Mohammed, Maps/GIS Librarian at the Government Documents/Maps Department of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, announced Manoa MAGIS (Maps, Aerials and GIS) covering geospatial data. The website includes aerial photography for Oahu, Kauai, and the Big Island - currently in a beta viewer - and 300 DPI versions of the most recent available USGS 7.5' topos, 1989-1999.

• Check out the Literature Map section of gnooks. You put in the name of the author, and get a "cloud" of names of other authors who are read by the fans of the author's name you entered.


• Do you walk or jog? You can make maps of your routes at Gmaps Pedometer.