The next LIBER Groupe des Cartothecaires conference is being held in
Amsterdam from 1-4 July 2008. As UK National Correspondent, I'm happy to
compile the UK report, as before, and so very keen to receive any
contributions - long or short - for the LIBER UK National Progress
Report, 2006-8 **by Friday 13 June**
I'm particularly interested in any institutional news that has not been
reported to BRICMICS over the last two years.
The report usually includes the following categories of information:
a. Activities of national/regional map curators groups; (study-days, new
projects, policy-statements etc.);
b. Education in mapcuratorship;
c. Automation of map-catalogues etc;
d. Acquisitions, collection development and exploitation;
e. New developments in electronic media/communications;
f. Conservation & Restoration;
g. Special developments (new positions, new employees, reorganisations
etc.);
h. Conferences and symposia;
i. Exhibitions (name, dates, short contents, catalogue);
j. Publications (author, title, size, place of publication, publisher,
year of publication).
Previous examples of national reports can be found at
http://liber-maps.kb.nl/intro.htm , whilst the 2004-6 UK national report
is at: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/filearea.cgi?LMGT1=lis-maps
In an effort to make the National Progress Reports even more exciting,
this year A3 posters are also invited. "A new approach to presenting the
national progress reports has been decided upon. Comments on preceding
conferences led us to the conclusion that the traditional way of reading
the national reports should be replaced by a more efficient and
inspiring event. It will be our new experiment to have the national
progress reports presented during the poster session, as a mini-poster,
in A3 size. The A3 posters should feature some 5 to 10 well readable
'statements', which are representative for the main progress
developments per country. Nevertheless, the full reports will be
included in the conference documents, which will be distributed on
registration, as usual."
http://liber.gdc.2008.googlepages.com/callforpapers
I'd therefore also be very grateful to receive any poster / visual
publicity you may have or be able to supply, on paper or on disc.
Should you wish to make a contribution to the report (which will be
delivered in Amsterdam, then made available on the web), please email me
( [log in to unmask] ) with the necessary information before Friday 13 June.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
With many thanks,
Chris Fleet
Deputy Map Curator
National Library of Scotland
33 Salisbury Place
EDINBURGH
EH9 1SL
United Kingdom.
Tel. 0131 623 3973
Fax. 0131 623 3971
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
View maps website: http://www.nls.uk/maps
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