December Events
Denver, December 6. Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Map Society. Check their website for time and location.
Chicago, December 8. Meeting of the Chicago Map Society. Location is Newberry Library, at 5:30 PM.
Washington, D. C. December 15. Meeting of the Washington Map Society. Held at 7 PM in the Geography & Map Division of the Library of Congress. Check the society website for details.
January Events
New York, Jan 13. Alice Hudson will present Treasured Maps: Celebrating The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division at 12:30 PM in the South Court Auditorium, New York Public Library, 5th Avenue and 42nd Street. This illustrated lecture accompanies an exhibit of the same name. Features maps and views of New York City.
Washington, D. C. December 15. Meeting of the Washington Map Society. Held at 7 PM in the Geography & Map Division of the Library of Congress. Check the society website for details.
San Antonio, January 22. During the American Library Association midwinter meeting, the Research Libraries Map Collection Management Group and Small Map Collections Discussion Group will hold a meeting on library security. A good idea in the wake of the recent, highly-publicized arrest of E. Forbes Smiley III on suspicion of stealing rare maps from Yale’s Beinecke Library. The topic will be Library Security for Map Collections: the Future, co-chaired by David Cobb (Harvard Map Collection) and Alice Hudson (New York Public Library Map Division).
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Greetings from sunny Australia. Good to hear news of events forthcoming in USA and beyond.
All map lovers should know that the whole year 2006 is being celebrated in Australia as the 400th anniversary of the first European contact with the Australian coast. 1606 saw a Dutch expedition land on Cape York, and later that same year, Torres sailed through the Strait now named after him. The program is available on the official national website http://www.australiaonthemap.org.au
Thanks for that information. My experience is that Australia has a good number of antique maps lovers — I know that any time I put a nice map of New Holland on my site, it goes pretty quickly — usually to Australia!
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