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.
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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