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Subject:        A special invitation to the Map Curators' Group 2009 Workshop
Date:   Tue, 7 Jul 2009 22:08:02 +0000 (GMT)
From:   A CARLUCCI <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps-L <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask]



Dear North American and European map library colleagues,

I would like to send you all a special invitation to come to Scotland
for the 2009 Workshop of the UK's Map Curators' Group in September.

We've put together a programme of talks by people who are doing new and
interesting things to put maps and index maps on the web, and they are
coming from both the UK and Europe to tell us what they're up to. We've
also planned visits to the British Geological Survey's Edinburgh office,
as well as/ //The Aerial Reconnaissance Archive (TARA)// /at the Royal
Commission for Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, which has
recently become the home to over 10 million photographs, from images of
Second World War Allied and German aerial reconnaissance, to RAF aerial
photography around the world up to the 1990s.  We’re topping the event
with a bus trip to Perth, to the Royal Scottish Geographical Society,
and, if you’d like to see people who are seriously dedicated to the
study of Ordnance Survey maps, the Charles Close Society is planning a
meeting on the following day.



We’re pleased to have the National Library of Scotland as our hosts.
NLS’s Map Library has led the way in providing online access to its many
treasures of Scottish mapping, and so is a particularly fitting site for
this year’s MCG meeting.



If you’ve never been to Scotland, this is your chance to see its
beautiful capital, Edinburgh, as well as to get out of town into the
Scottish countryside. Edinburgh has an Old Town and a New Town,
beautiful parks and monuments, an extinct volcano, a long tradition in
science and cartography, and it’s all topped off with a wonderful castle.



Last but not least, the exchange rate must be pretty good, because I can
tell you that London is swimming in tourists!



Have a look at the details at
http://www.cartography.org.uk/default.asp?contentID=900 and do come and
meet your colleagues on the other side of the pond or the channel!



Regards

April Carlucci

For the Map Curators’ Group