This year’s conference will take place in Denver, CO at the Denver Public Library – Central Library. The schedule of the conference is below, descriptions of the workshops are on the Pre-Conference page and abstracts for each presentation are available on the Presenters & Presentations conference page.

All times in Mountain Time (MT). Times subject to change.

Schedule:

Wednesday, October 7, 2026 – Pre-conference

Wednesday workshop sessions will take place at the Denver Public Library – Central Library in the Park View room

REGISTRATION TABLE OPEN: 8:30am to 3:45pm

9:00am-10:00am	Executive Board Meeting All members welcome to attend
10:30am-12:00pm	Workshop 1 Take Your Maps With You! (with ArcGIS Field Maps) Rebecca Seifried, University of Massachusetts Amherst
12:00pm-1:30pm	Lunch
1:30pm-3:00pm	Workshop 2 Online Guide to Map Collections – WAML Edition Stephen Appel, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
3:00pm-3:45pm	Tour of the Denver Public Library Map Collection
4:30pm-?	Early Bird Dinner at Wynkoop Brewery Location: 1634 18th St, 2nd floor of brewery

Thursday, October 8, 2026 – Conference Day 1

All presentations for Thursday and Friday will take place at the at the Denver Public Library – Central Library in the Park View room

REGISTRATION TABLE OPEN: 8:00am to 12:00pm

8:30am- 9:00am	Light refreshments and snacks
9:00am- 9:10am	Welcome
9:10am- 9:30am	A Win-Win: Student Library Employee-led Projects Susan Powell, Sciences and Map Library, University of California, Berkeley Karen Pfeffer, Earth Sciences and Map Library, University of California, Berkeley
9:30am- 9:50am	Design and Lead Engaging Map Collection Tours Zoe Dilles, Earth Sciences Library, Stanford University
9:50am- 10:10am	Self-Guided Tour as Outreach Georgia Brown, American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
10:10am- 10:40am	Sponsored Break
10:40am- 11:00am	Wikidata as Gazetteer: One Editor’s Experiences of Geographic Information as Linked Data Tim Kiser, Michigan State University
11:00am- 11:20am	Indoor GIS at the Library: answering the eternal question of “How do I find this book?” Kevin Dyke, Oklahoma State University
11:20am- 11:40am	Prompt Engineering and Geospatial Data Discovery: An AI Fluency Activity Joshua Sadvari, The Ohio State University
11:40am- 12:00pm	Group photo
12:00pm- 2:00pm	Lunch
2:00pm- 2:20pm	The BTAA BIG map collection: Working Group Update Theresa Quill, Indiana University Heather Ross, Penn State University Kathleen W. Weessies, Michigan State University
2:20pm- 2:40pm	Time for an update – an archival aerial photography inventory and needs assessment survey Nathan B. Piekielek, Penn State University Bruce Godfrey, University of Idaho
2:40pm- 3:00pm	Sponsored Break
3:00pm- 3:20pm	Taming the Chaos: Devising and Conducting an Inventory of the On-Site Maps at the UCLA Library Maggie Tarmey, UCLA
3:20pm- 3:40pm	How duplicative are map collections? Kathleen W. Weessies, Michigan State University
3:40pm- 4:10pm	Trivia
4:10pm- 5:30pm	Rest at your hotel/make way to banquet
5:30pm- 8:00pm	Banquet at Cherry Cricket

Friday, October 9, 2026 – Conference Day 2

All presentations for Thursday and Friday will take place at the at the Denver Public Library – Central Library in the Park View room

8:30am- 9:10am	Light refreshments and snacks
9:10am- 9:20am	Welcome
9:20am- 9:40am	Don’t Chunk that Map Facsimile! Sierra Laddusaw, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan
9:40am- 10:00am	Santa’s Got a Gun : A case study of cultural stereotypes embedded in a map Christopher Thiry, Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines
10:00am- 10:30am	Sponsored Break
10:30am- 10:50am	“I knew her!” Processing the Mary Louise Karpinski Collection Emilie Ducourneau, California State University, Northridge
10:50am- 11:10am	(Un)classified: Situating a secret agent’s cataloging model within a liberal arts collection Katie Lewis, Carleton College
11:10am- 11:30am	Insurance Maps from Insurance Company Archives – Wonderful but Challenging David Hodnefield, Historical Information Gatherers
11:30am- 1:30pm	Lunch
1:30pm- 2:15pm	Scholarship Winner Presentations, plus time for questions
2:15pm- 2:35pm	Sponsored Break
2:35pm- 3:35pm	Business Meeting
3:35pm- 4:30pm	Sounding Board

Saturday, October 10, 2026 – Field Trip

7:45am	Meet at Denver Union Station Gate B19 (map of bus gates)
8:00am	Depart Denver on Bustang
9:00am	Arrive at in Idaho Springs and walk to Argo Mill (2350 Riverside Dr. – arrive by 9:45am) – 0.8 miles / 18 min walk
10:00am- 11:30am	Guided Tour of Argo Mill and Tunnel
11:30am	Depart for downtown Idaho Springs – a 0.6 miles / 15 min walk
12:00pm-1:45pm	Lunch on Miner Street
1:45pm- 2:00pm	Depart for Historical Society of Idaho Springs (2060 Miner Street) – 0.4 miles / 10 min walk
2:00pm- 3:30pm	Historical Society of Idaho Springs tour
3:30pm	Walk to bus station (1319 Miner St) – 0.5 miles / 13 min walk
4:05pm	Depart Idaho Springs on Bustang
5:00pm	Arrive in Denver