Program

This year’s conference will take place in Vancouver, British Columbia from Wednesday, August 9th to Saturday, August 12th, 2023. The program for in-person attendees on these days is detailed below. If you are not attending the conference in person but would like to watch the live-streamed presentations on Thursday and Friday, visit the virtual conference information page for program and information about how to register.

For program for the virtual conference please see Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/western-association-of-map-libraries-virtual-presentations-2023-tickets-646436377607

All times in Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). Times subject to change.

Wednesday, August 9th, 2023 – Pre-conference

REGISTRATION TABLE OPEN: 8:15am to 3:00pm – Koerner Library Lobby

9:00am – 10:30am	Executive Board Meeting – Open for all WAML members to attend. Koerner Library Room 548 – Presentation Room
10:30am – 12:00pm	Workshop: OpenIndexMaps. Stephen Appel, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Tom Brittnacher, University of California Santa Barbara. Koerner Library Room 497 – Digital Scholarship Lab
12:00pm – 1:00pm	Lunch – on your own or with colleagues
1:00pm – 2:30pm	Workshop: (Map) Weeding for the Uncertain Gardener : advice for massive map weeding projects. Christopher J.J. Thiry, Colorado School of Mines; Janet Reyes, University of California, Riverside; Martin Chandler, Cape Breton University. Koerner Library Room 548 – Presentation Room
2:30pm – 4:00pm	GeoTours – Group visits to UBC Geography Department’s Geographic Information Centre and UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections maps Meet outside the main entrance to Koerner Library
4:30pm – 5:30pm	Beach Walk – Join us for a walk to one of UBC’s nearby beaches. Meet at UBC Rose Garden
6:45pm – 9:00pm	Early Bird Dinner @ Brewhall (97 E 2nd Ave, Vancouver) Take the bus from UBC

Thursday, August 10th, 2023 – Conference Day 1

All presentations will take place in the Dodson Room (302) Chapman Learning Commons, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

REGISTRATION TABLE OPEN: 8:30am to 1:00pm – Peña Room (301), Chapman Learning Commons, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

8:30am – 9:00am	Rose Garden Chat – Catch a nice view with colleagues in UBC’s Rose Garden.
9:15am – 9:30am	Welcome
9:30am – 9:50am	Where in the world do we put wall maps? Georgia Brown, American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
9:50am – 10:10am	What’s Old is New: The Case for Pictorial Maps in Research and Instruction. Tim Utter, Clark Library, University of Michigan Library.
10:10am – 10:30am	Make your map collection FAB-U-LOUS! Christopher Thiry, Colorado School of Mines.
10:30am – 11:00am	SPONSOR BREAK brought to you by Historical Information Gatherers – History Mosaic
11:00am – 11:05am	Lightning Talk: Map Mashup! Susan Powell, University of California Berkeley Library.
11:05am – 11:10am	Lightning Talk: Thinking about Accessibility and our work. Jessica Benner, Carnegie Mellon University; Chrissy Klenke, University of Nevada Reno
11:10am – 11:15am	Lightning Talk: Digital Pin Map – A new way to browse a map collection. Christopher Thiry, Colorado School of Mines.
11:15am – 11:20am	Lightning Talk Q&A
11:20am – 11:40am	A Survey of Student Employment and Geospatial Services in Academic Libraries. Joshua Sadvari, The Ohio State University.
11:40am – 12:00pm	Developing Reusable GIS Workshops with Graduate Student Employees. Evan Thornberry, University of British Columbia Library.
12:00pm – 1:30pm	Lunch Bunch – Group sign up sheets will be available at the registration table.
1:30pm – 2:15pm	Sounding Board – Open for all WAML members to attend.
2:15pm – 2:20pm	Scholarship Announcement
2:20pm – 2:40pm	Scholarship Presentation #1
2:40pm – 3:00pm	Scholarship Presentation #2
3:00pm – 3:20pm	SPONSOR BREAK brought to you by Esri
3:20pm – 4:50pm	Share Your Work, Shape Our Field: Tips for Authors and Reviewers for the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries. Theresa Quill, Indiana University; Joshua Sadvari, The Ohio State University
6:30pm – 7:00pm	Memorial for Stan Stevens and Phil Hoehn @ Steamworks Brewery, Downtown Vancouver
7:00pm – 9:00pm	Banquet @ Steamworks Brewery, Downtown Vancouver

Friday, August 11th, 2023 – Conference Day 2

All presentations will take place in the Dodson Room (302) Chapman Learning Commons, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

7:30am – 9:00am	Pacific Spirit Regional Park Walk – Join us for a morning walk through the forested park surrounding UBC.
9:00am – 9:45am	Mapping German Americans and their communities: Heinz Kloss and his 1974 ethnographic atlas. Heiko Mühr, University of California Berkeley Library.
9:45am – 10:15am	SPONSOR BREAK Brought to you by East View Companies
10:15am – 10:20am	Lightning Talk: Cartographic Puberty: The Emergence of the Canadian Geographic Information System. Prof. Paul D. Pickell, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia.
10:20am – 10:25am	Lightning Talk: British Columbia’s Dominion Land Surveys. Evan Thornberry, University of British Columbia Library.
10:25am – 10:30am	Lightning Talk Q&A
10:30am – 10:45am	BREAK
10:45am – 11:05am	GIS Librarians for Open Workflows (GLOW). Cecilia Smith, University of Chicago.
11:05am – 11:25pm	Introducing IMGIS, an Open Educational GIS Resources Repository. Lena Denis, Geospatial Data, GIS, and Maps Librarian, Johns Hopkins University; Jennie Murack, GIS & Data Librarian, MIT; Emma Slayton, PhD. Data Curation, Visualization, and GIS Specialist, Carnegie Mellon Libraries; Amanda Tickner, GIS Librarian, Michigan State University Libraries.
11:25am – 11:45pm	Teaching GIS as and for community engagement. Sarah Zhang, Simon Fraser University.
11:45pm – 1:15pm	Lunch on your own or with a group
1:15pm – 2:00pm	Navigating Consultation Challenges: Strategies for GIS Librarians. Cecilia Smith, University of Chicago.
2:00pm – 2:15pm	BREAK
2:15pm – 2:45pm	Hybrid TRIVIA! with Chrissy Klenke
2:45pm – 4:00pm	Business Meeting – Open for all WAML members to attend.

Saturday, August 12th, 2023 – Field Trip

10:00am – 11:00am	Public Transit to Chinatown
11:00am – 11:45am	Chinatown Storytelling Centre
12:10pm – 12:25pm	SeaBus to North Vancouver
12:25pm – 2:45pm	Lunch in North Vancouver
2:45pm – 3:00pm	SeaBus back to Vancouver
3:45pm – 5:00pm	Indigenous walking tour of Stanley Park
5:00pm and after	Public transit back to UBC or explore Downtown Vancouver