March 2018

Table of Contents

• Editorial Staff and WAML Representatives
• President’s Message
  …by Phil White

WAML’s 50th Anniversary

• 50 Years Young
  … by Stan Stevens
• Spotlight on Phil Hoehn
  … by Kathy Rankin

2018 Conference: Austin

• Program
• Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
• General Business Meeting Minutes

Articles

• Perspective from Anita Martinez
  …our diversity scholarship recipient
• Perspective from Taylor Hixson
  …our early career scholarship recipient
• Digital Index Maps: Leveraging GIS to Create Metadata for Online Map Collections
  …by Tom Brittnacher

Book Reviews
…edited by Ilene Raynes

• The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence
  …by Rebecca A. Lane
  

New Mapping of Western North America
…compiled by Ken Rockwell

• November 2017 — February 2018

News & Notes
…compiled by Mike Smith

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Information Bulletin (Western Association of Map Libraries)
ISSN 2375-7957 (online)
ISSN 0049-7282 (print)