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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:39:55 -0500
From: David McQuillan <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: SLA Minneapolis 1999
 
 
 
Have you renewed your membership in the Special Libraries Association
(SLA) and selected the Geography and Map Division as your primary
division for 1999?  If you lost your renewal form or are new to SLA,
you can find a form on the SLA website at WWW. SLA. Org.  Membership
is only $125 a year and you will receive both the monthly SLA
Information Outlook and the quarterly G&M Division Newsletter.
 
Our Annual Conference is in Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 6 to June 10,
1999.  Highlights of the program planned by Chairman Bruce Oberhaus
(Virginia Tech) ([log in to unmask]), include talks on map preservation
techniques; GIS based archeological models; traffic management; the
Holy Land Antique Map Project, presented by Dr. HelenJane Armstrong,
University of Florida; GIS and the Internet; government mapping
updates from USGS, Census, and NIMA; and one of the major events of
our lifetime, my slide talk on the IFLA meeting in Amsterdam, held
this past Fall.  There will also be an open house at the John R.
Borchert Map Library at the University of Minnesota and a concluding
field trip on Thursday aboard the "Minnesota Flyer" for a rail
excursion from Stillwater, into the St. Croix River Valley.  The field
trip is co-sponsored by the Solo, Engineering, Transportation, Sci
Tech, and G&M Divisions.  Visits to various map stores and publishers
are under discussion as well as a trip to "The Mall of America", which
you can visit through their website WWW.mallofamerica.com.
 
For more information on specific events and ongoing projects of the
G&M Division, join today, receive the preliminary program in March,
hear about the upcoming program for Philadelphia in 2000, and help
plan our 60th Anniversary Meeting in San Antonio in 2001.   This is
the oldest cartographic information society in the world and continues
to offer members a whole range of  topics in our field.  Opportunities
for contact with other professionals in specialized collections
related to our area of study, is a hallmark of SLA and its reason for
establishment at the beginning of the 20th Century.
 
David C. McQuillan, Chairman
SLA G&M Membership and Public Relations
 
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