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Schedule

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Western Association of Map Libraries

 

Fall 2009 Meeting, Sept. 15-18, Cody, Wyoming

 

Welcome to the information wiki for the WAML Fall 2009 Meeting in Cody, Wyoming.  Here you'll find up-to-date information on the meeting schedule, accomodations, field trip, and useful information about the city of Cody and its environs, including Yellowstone National Park.  This wiki is a work in progress, so check back often to see what's new!

 

Pages in this wiki:  Front Page   Schedule   Field Trip   Local Information   Planning Committee 


 Registration is now closed.

 

Download the registration form in PDF format: WAML Fall 09 reg form.pdf or Word 2003 format:  WAML Fall 09 reg form.doc.  Due date for registration is Aug. 15, 2009.

 

Printable version of the schedule, in PDF format: WAML Fall 2009 Program.pdf

 


Preliminary Schedule

 

Tuesday, Sept. 15

2:00 – 5:00       Executive Board Meeting, Park County Public Library

 

5:00 – 8:00       Early Bird Dinner, Proud Cut Saloon

 

Wednesday, Sept. 16

9:00 -- 9:30        Coffee, Welcome & Introductions

 

9:30 -- 10:00      Lynn Houze, Curatorial Assistant, Buffalo Bill Historical Center

                            "Early Cody"

 

10:00 -- 10:15    Break

        

10:15 -- 11:00    Janet Woods, University of Wyoming Libraries and Austin McLean, ProQuest

                            “Uncharted Territory:  The Pitfalls and Challenges of a Large Scale

                                   Dissertation and Theses Retrospective Digitization Project”

 

11:00 -- 11:30    Ginny Kilander. Faculty Archivist, American Heritage Center

                             "Think Copper, Think Anaconda: The Anaconda Copper Mining Company's Exploration Records"

 

11:30 -- 12:45    Lunch on your own

 

12:45 -- 1:30      Lee Whittlesey, Yellowstone National Park Historian

                             “Yellowstone Waterfalls”

 

1:30 -- 2:15       Colleen Curry, Curator, Jessica Gerdes, Librarian and Jackie Jerla, Librarian,

                                      Yellowstone National Park Heritage and Research Center

                              "Yellowstone National Park's Archives and Maps: Managing Chaos"

 

2:15 -- 3:00       Venice Beske, Wyoming State Library and Tamsen Hert, Emmett Chisum Special Collections, University of Wyoming Libraries

                              “Wyoming on the Map: Wyoming Places from Absaroka to Zirkel Mesa"

 

3:00                  Wrap up and move to the Buffalo Bill Historic Center

 

3:15 – 5:00        BBHC

                            Tours of the McCracken Research Library (2)

                              3:30-4:00    Kurt Graham – Group 1

                              4:00-4:30    Kurt Graham – Group 2

                              4:35           Gather at the Greater Yellowstone Map for group photo

 

6:30 – 9:00        Banquet at The Terrace

                            Speaker, Pete Simpson

 

Thursday, Sept. 17

9:00 -- 10:00     Bruce Blevins

                           "The Historic Spectrum of Mapping Wyoming: Western Cartography in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries”

 

10:00 -- 10:15   Break

 

10:15 -- 11:00    John Waggener, Faculty Archivist, American Heritage Center

                            “Putting Wyoming on the Map: The History of the Official Wyoming Highway Map”

 

11:00 -- 11:45    Mary Keller, University of Wyoming

                            “Palimpsest Culture: What is Rising Through the Maps of the American West?”

 

11:45 -- 12:45    Lunch on your own

 

12:45 -- 1:30      Anne Young, Cody, “Canal Park”  (walking tour)

 

1:30 -- 3:30       Continuing Education

 

3:30 -- 3:45       Break

 

3:45 -- 5:00       WAML Business Meeting

 

5:00 -- 5:30       Sounding Board & Final Comments

 

6:00                  Dinner on your own

 

Friday, Sept. 18 

7am – 8pm       Field Trip:  Yellowstone National Park

                              East Entrance to Canyon; Canyon to Old Faithful; and return to Cody.

 


Background: Yellowstone National Park map, 1929 by the Yellowstone Park Hotel Co.

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