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                       READING THE WORLD:
        Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Maps
 
                       October 14-15, 1994
             Holiday Inn by the Bay, Portland, Maine
      Sponsored by the University of Southern Maine Library
 
 
     An international, scholarly conference celebrating the
opening of the Osher Map library and the Smith Center for
Cartographic Education.  (Curator:  Yolanda Theunissen; Phone
207-780-4850; E-MAIL [log in to unmask])
     Keynote Speakers include:  David Woodward, professor of
geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison and editor, The
History of Cartography series; John Noble Wilford, New York Times
science columnist and author of The Mapmakers.
     Other presenters will include Denis Wood, professor of
design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh and guest
curator of the Smithsonian exhibit and author of The Power of
Maps; and Anne Godlewska, assistant professor of geography,
Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
     A number of Rare Map Dealers will be showing (and offering
for sale) a selection of their stock.
 
 
Conference registration and accomodation reservation deadline:
Sept. 15, 1994.
For more information or to receive the conference mailing
registration please call:      207  780-4542
                             1-800  800-4USM ext.4542
                               FAX  207-780-4836