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Geography & Map Division, S.L.A. conference update follows:
Hoping to see you all in Montreal!
Difficulties in transferring Word attachments to my email and getting
them down to Maps-l, have meant that the complete updated schedule
could not be posted. The new technology got me, folks, or it got
Maps-l or Johnnie. Anyway, following is a brief list of the programs,
and their room assignments in Montreal.
Sunday June 11
8-9 Govt relations workshop CC403C; Public Relations Workshop
CC403A; Treasurers' Workshop CC403B
9-1 DACOLT: Division and Officer leadership training CC407C
10:30-11:45 G&M Division committees urged to meet prior to Exec Bd.
1-2 Bulletin Editors Workshop CC403A; Membership Workshop CC403B;
Professional Development Workshop CC403C
1:30-3 Boston conference planning committee CC402 [Elaine, not sure
you have to attend this..] SLA Reception for firt time attendees
CC611
4:30-6 G&M executive board SH Salon 2
6-8:00 Reception at David M. Stewart Museum on St. Helene Island in
St. Lawrence River. Take the Metro over early to see the exhibit
Beauty and Image: Women and Allegory in Antique Maps from
10:00 am to 5 pm. RECEPTION SPONSORED BY MAPLINK
Monday June 12, 1995
9-10:15 SLA General Session I CC407B
10:30-11:45 Membership Forum G&M Division: How S.L.A. G. & M.
Division Promotes Your Career CC404B
Speaker: Charlene Baldwin, University of California,
Riverside.
1;30-2:45 Business Meeting G&M Division CC 404B
3:00-4:15 Reports Session G&M Division CC404B
4:30-6 Champagne and Strawberries reception honoring former chairs
of the Geography and Map Division, former Honors Award Winners
Ticketted event. SOLD OUT. QE Galerie 2. [Come anyway, I am
trying to work out more tickets!]
6:00+ Montreal on your own
Tuesday June 13, 1995
9-10:15 S.L.A. General Session II CC 407B
10:30-11:45 Promoting the Map Library to your boss and to the
public: How local map societies, library friends groups and
geographic alliances further the work of map libraries. CC 403B
Speakers: William Barrow, Kent State University & Case
Westerm Reserve; Alice Hudson, New York Public Library. Members of
the Geography & Map Division are invited to bring along anecdotes,
examples of posters, invitations, etc. to share at this meeting. We
need to help each other keep map librarianship alive and kicking!
SPONSORED BY OMNI RESOURCES
1:30 -2:45 Cataloging Geospatial Data in Digital Form/ cospponsored
by the S.L.A. Cataloging Committee Speaker: Mary Larsgaard
of the University of California, Santa Barbara. CC411B
3:00-4:15 GIS transforming our world: standards for reference
service I CC 411B
Speakers: Elaine Clement & Todd Bacastow of Pennsylvania
State University on providing an effective environment for the use of
GIS in libraries; and Roberta Brody of Rutgers University on issues
and concerns in enabling access to public information through GIS.
SPONSORED BY GIS WORLD
4:30-6 Visit the exhibits!
4:30-6 S.L.A. Division Cabinet QE Marquette
6:00-7:30 S.L.A. Joint Cabinet, if necessary QE Le Grand Salon
6:00+ Montreal on your own
Wednesday June 14, 1995
9-11:15 S.L.A. Annual meeting CC407A
11:30-12:45 GIS transforming our world: standards for reference
service II. CC 411 B
Speakers: Myke Gluck, Florida State University on Public library
users and GIS; and Ardis Hanson and Diane Powell, Florida Mental
Health Institute on the use of Geographic and map information in
evaluating neighborhood use of social services.
2:30-3:45 Vendor presentations -- From paper maps to scanned maps
CC 411 B
Earl McElfresh of McElfresh Map Co will speak on
researching and creating Civisl War battle maps for today's market;
Ara Hourdajian, Microcolor International, Inc. will speak on Hybrid
Imaging; The use of colro microfiche and Photo CD(r) for preservation
and access.
4-6 Environmental Mapping and Information Systems. Cosponsored by ERM
Division. QE St. Laurent
Kathleen Eisenbeis, yale University will speak on EOSDIS --
The next step. A description of NASA's Earth Observing System data
and information system. Martin Jean, of the St. Lawrence Centre,
Environment Canada will speak on the managment and access of
environmental information: the St. lawrence Case Study.
5:00-6:00 G&M Executive Board [if necessary]
5:00+ Montreal on your own
Thursday, June 15, 1995
GEOGRAPHY & MAP DIVISION FIELD TRIP
8:30-3:00 "Le Tour de la Montagne: A geo-architectural tour of
Montreal" will be led by Professor David Hanna of the Dept of Urban
and Tourist Studied at the University of Quebec in Montreal. We will
visit Westmount and Outremont with their fabulous architecture, and
the multi-ethnic Plateau, where we will eat lunch at the Greek
restaurant, Jardin de Panos. Lunch costs are in addition to the field
trip ticket cost. We will return to the Queen Elizabeth Hotel around
3 pm
6-9:00 Wrap up dinner for G&M folk; perhaps Macauslan's Microbrewery.
Meet Queen Elizabeth Lobby at 6:00
CC Convention Center
QE Queen Elizabeth Hotel
SH Sheraton
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