----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Montreal was terrific! Many thanks to Map Link, GIS World and Omni Resources for making this meeting as successful as it was. Your support was crucial, welcome and much appreciated. Thanks to Carol Marley for her local support, and for finding David Hanna for us, who led a wunderbar field trip through architectural wonders of Montreal. And yes, we even had a bus to get us around! Many thanks also to all our speakers. I regret that short staffing at NYPL's Map Division meant I had to leave the conference early, and missed some of your presentations. Annual conferences are invaluable professionally and personally because of the face to face contact we have at these events, with each other, with vendors, exhibitors, with fellow map librarians in their home sites, with new members, and old friends. It was a grand time for all, and I thank all of you guys who were there for your support. It meant a lot to me. Next year in Boston! A full report on the Montreal conference will appear in a forthcoming issue of the Bulletin of the Geography & Map Division, S.L.A. Alice Hudson Program planner, [retired], Montreal Special Libraries Association Geography & Map Division