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 – | 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 – | 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 |
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