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Subject:        Map Curators' Group Workshop programme announcement (8-10 Sept
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Date:   Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:00:26 +0000 (GMT)
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The Map Curators’ Group of the British Cartographic Society is pleased
to make this second preliminary announcement of the programme for its
annual Workshop, to be held 8-10 September 2010. Our host is the Map
Department of the Cambridge University Library in Cambridge, UK.



*Beyond the Neat Line: More than Just Geography *



*/Wednesday 8 September /*



A daylong programme of speakers:



*Martin Andrews*, University of Reading Department of Typography, /18th
and 19th century map printing processes/



*Steve Chilton *and* Ifan Shepherd*, Middlesex University, /Staff
carriers and bean counters: Unravelling the who and the why of the first
6-inch survey of England and Wales/



*Marco van Egmond*, Map Curator, Utrecht University Library, /Collecting
digital cartographic data in Utrecht: storage and accessibility/



*Matt Knutzen*, Geospatial Librarian, The New York Public Library Map
Division, /Maps@NYPL: New collaborative methods in (re)presenting
historical geography/



*Richard Oliver*, University of Exeter, Honorary Research Fellow in the
History of Cartography, /20th century Ordnance Survey paper map
marginalia and metadata/



Followed by the Annual Business Meeting of the Map Curators’ Group (all
welcome)



An early evening wine reception to be held at Emmanuel College



*/Thursday 9 September/*



Morning demonstrations by *Seppe Cassettari* and *Fiona Cocks* of *The
GeoInformation Group*: A Beginner’s Guide to UKMap and Discovering the
Past through Aerial Photography



A choice of afternoon visits of cartographic interest in Cambridge,
including the Whipple Museum of the History of Science



A walking tour of Cambridge



An evening meal for socialising and networking



*/Friday 10 September/*



A coach visit to London for guided tours of the major British Library
exhibition *Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art*, conducted by
the curators of the exhibition, *Peter Barber* and *Tom Harper*





Please mark the dates in your diaries. Booking details for registration
and accommodation will be announced in May. Accommodation has been
arranged by the MCG at an adjacent Cambridge college.



We look forward to seeing you in Cambridge in September. If you need any
further information, please contact:



Ann Sutherland, Convener

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Anne Taylor

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April Carlucci

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