Number 29, Winter 1998 cartographic perspectives 5

The NACIS Program Committee invites you to participate in this

meeting by presenting a paper, poster or exhibit. Plan to organize a
session, panel discussion, or workshop. A full range of computing
facil ities a t the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will be available
for workshops. We look. forward to featuring the current challenges
confronting map librarians and cartographers.

Potential topics include:

-7 handling digital map-library data

-7 compiling metadata
-7 managing the practical constraints of budgets
-7 exploring data using visualization & virtual
XVIII reality

ANNUAL MEETING -7 integrating diverse data sources for map

production
-7 marketing cartography services
-7 developing educational materials

We a lso encourage presentations that w ill complement the sympo-

NORTH sium Maps a11d Mi11ds: A History of Cartography i11 Geography
Ed11catio11, which has been organized by the Hermon Dunlap Smith
Center for the History of Cartography, :\lewberry Library. This
AMERICAN symposium is co-sponsored by NACIS and will be held in
Milwaukee on Wednesday, October 7. To continue themes from the
symposium at l'\ACIS, we welcome presentations on maps in
CARTOGRAPHIC education and on cartographic ed ucation from historical, current
and speculative perspectives. Challenges that reflect the practical
side of this topic include production of maps fo r educational media
INFORMATION and collaboration with authors. Topics on maps and society will
also mesh wi th the symposium themes.
SOCIETY
Email your 250-word abstract or proposal to the program chair,
Cynthia Brewer, by May 1. List names and affili ations of all authors,
and include phone and email for the presenting author. We encour-
age student participation.

Email proposals and abstracts to:

OCTOBER 7-10, 1998 cbrewer@essc.ps u.edu
The deadline is May 1 (Space may still be
available after the deadline).
MILWAUKEE,
Participants will be notified by June 15, 1998,
WISCONSIN of acceptance of their abstract or proposal.