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Collegues:
 
Last spring I, as the chair of MAGERT, was asked to recommend a delegate
to the Dupont Circle meeting held in Washington D.C.  I recommended Melissa
LaMont because of her energy and involvement in both GovDox and Maps.  She
attended and has been diligently supplying us with the Dupont Circle Reporters.
A major meeting will be held by the GovDox community to discuss the Future of
Federal Government Information in Chicago, Oct. 29-31.  It includes, of course
the future of maps, spatial information, etc. as they are supplied by the
federal government.  We, as the map library community, need to provide feedback
to our collegues who will attend in order to have our challenges and concerns
met.  I have extracted the areas to be discussed.  Please look them over and
reply to the MAPS-L List (for discussion), Melissa (at HBLADM140@UCONNVM) or
me, Patrick McGlamery (at LIBMAP1@UCONNVM).  Don't let this happen without a
voice.  Our needs are special.  They won't know unless we tell them.