Are you looking for a collegial and supportive conference where you can
present a paper about maps in a more intimate setting than one of the
big library conferences?  How about a conference that goes beyond map
librarianship to encompass issues of map production techniques, software
use, web-based mapping, and the history of cartography?

It isn’t too late to submit a paper proposal for the twenty-sixth annual
meeting of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS)
being held in Madison, Wisconsin, October 18-21, 2006!

All paper topics that focus on maps (or map librarianship!) are welcome!

Speaking from personal experience, NACIS conference goers warmly welcome
newcomers.  You won’t feel like a stranger in the middle of a crowd!

This year, the conference will be held at the Inn on the Park Hotel in
Madison.  There will be two days of paper sessions preceded by a daylong
Practical Cartography Day.  Highlights of the meeting include an
opening-night event called “Map Off” during which 4 or 5 cartographers
present their solutions to a set map production problem for public
evaluation and judging, a social event on Thursday evening, and Geodweeb
Geopardy.

This year’s keynote speaker will be Schuyler Erle, co-author of Google
Maps Hacks and Mapping Hacks.

Information about paper submissions, as well as last year’s conference
program, can be found at the NACIS website, www.nacis.org, under Annual
Meeting.

I look forward to hearing from you soon!

Jenny Marie Johnson
NACIS Vice-President/President Elect
2006 Conference Planner

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