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Subject: 2004 map conference
   Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 08:17:57 +1200
   From: "John Robson" <[log in to unmask]>


The New Zealand Map Society / Australian Map Circle Joint Conference
2004

 will be held at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand 8-11
February 2004

Combine a business trip to a Map Conference with a holiday of a lifetime
in New Zealand.

You are invited to attend and participate in this Conference, which will
focus on the

themes of historical and current mapping relevant to the Southwest
Pacific.

The program is still to be decided. There will be two days of papers
either side of a

field trip to Auckland to visit the MaritimeMuseum there and the Royal
NZ Navy’s

Hydrographic department.

The conference will be of particular interest to map librarians,
collectors of old maps

and academic geographers.

Call for Papers.

The Conference Committee invites proposals for papers. Each presenter
will be allotted

approx. 40 minutes, including question time.  The conference venue
contains all

presentation facilities, including PC (for PowerPoint, Flash etc
demonstrations and

presentations) video projection, slide and O/H projectors.  A technician
will be on

hand to assist.  Please submit proposals for papers by 29 August 2003.
Proposals

should include a short abstract, affiliation details, brief biography,
requests for any

special facilities, and contact details.

Details of Registration and Accommodation.

A registration brochure will be distributed in early September.
Accommodation

facilities will be available on the University of Waikato Campus in
student rooms.

There are also motels in the vicinity of the Campus.

Alternative activities.

Other activities will be arranged for partners and friends accompanying
participants.

Possibilities include trips to Rotorua, Waitomo Glow worm caves,
Otorohanga Bird

house, HamiltonGardens and the WaikatoMuseum.

Contact:

John Robson,

Map Librarian, University of Waikato,

Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand.

Ph. 00- 64-7-856-2889  ext. 6625

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