----------------------------Original message---------------------------- This is being cross-posted to Maps-L and Geonet-L. Please pardon any duplication in your inbox. The Western Association of Map Libraries will celebrate its thirtieth anniversary this September, when it convenes for its Fall 1997 meeting in Pasadena. Hosted by the California Institute of Technology, the program will include presentations on a range of topics, historical to technological. Besides the program and business meetings, there will be a celebratory banquet, a picnic lunch, and a field trip. All meetings will be held on the Caltech campus, and the field trip will be in downtown Los Angeles. Information on the preliminary program and field trip is below. Information packets were sent to principle region members late last week. For further information or a complete packet, please contact Jim O'Donnell at [log in to unmask] Preliminary Program Thursday, September 18 9 - 12 Executive Board 9:30 - 12:30 UC/Stanford Map Libraries Group 1:30 - 2 Registration 2 Welcome and Introductions 2:15 - 3:15 Paper #1 Greg Armento, CSULB: History of San Pedro Bay in Maps and Photographs: The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. 3:15 - 3:45 Break 3:45 - 4:45 Paper #2 To Be Arranged 7:30 WAML@30 Banquet Friday, September 19 8:30 - 9 am Registration and coffee 9 - 10:30 Business Meeting 10:30-11 Break 11 - 12 Sounding Board 12 - 1:30 Picnic lunch 1:30 - 2:30 Paper #3 Al Barrows, California Division of Mines & Geology. The Seismic Hazards Mapping Program. 2:30 - 3 Paper #4 Muriel Strickland, WAML: The Map Collection of the San Diego Historical Society Research Archives 3 - 3:30 Paper #5 Larry Cruse, UCSD: An inexpensive apparatus for encapsulating maps 3:30-4 Break 4 - 5 Paper #6 Tony Soeller, Manager, Caltech Spatial Interpretation Laboratory: Work in Progress - planning, designing and integrating a distributed Geographic Information System. 5 - Informal reception 7? Pickup dinner, on your own Saturday, September 20 Optional Field Trip: Choice of two Los Angeles Conservancy architectural tours of downtown Los Angeles 8:30 Bagel Breakfast TBA 9:30 Carpool to downtown Los Angeles Park at Pershing Square parking lot 10 - 12 Tours Organize at Biltmore Hotel 12 - 1:30 Tour of Los Angeles Public Library Map Collection, hosted by Glenn Creason 1:30 Lunch On own, or return to Pasadena Hope to see you all there! Jim Jim O'Donnell Geological & Planetary Sciences Librarian California Institute of Technology 100-23 Pasadena, California 91125 626/395-2199 fax: 626/568-0935