WAML Information Bulletin
Volume 56, Number 3
July/August 2025

Table of Contents
Summer 2025

President’s Message

• President’s Message: Summer 2025
  …by Cheyenne Stradinger

Article

• Geospatial Data Management Interview Series: Interview with Alicia Urquidi Diaz, Scholar’s Geoportal
• Beautifying your space can increase belonging and use by Heather Dohn Ross and Jove Goldberg

Features 

• Features: Summer 2025

Editor: Georgia Brown

New Mapping

• New Western Mapping: Summer 2025

Editor: Ken Rockwell, with the assistance of Chrissy Klenke

Reviews: Book & Geospatial Resources

• Book Review: Atlas of Paranormal Places: A Journey to the World’s Most Supernatural Places
• Book Review: Atlas of Microstates
• Book Review: Wish you were here: Guidebooks, viewbooks, photobooks and maps of New York City, 1807-1940, from the collection of Mark D. Tomasko
• Book Review: Myths of Geography: Eight Ways We Get the World Wrong
• Book Review: Territorial Imaginaries: Beyond the Sovereign Map

Editor: Ilene Raynes

New Staff

• Brendan Whyte: Curator and Head of the Map Collection at the University of Chicago

WAML Business

• 2025-05-27 Executive Meeting Minutes
• 2025-06-24 Executive Meeting Minutes

WAML Secretary: Emilie Ducourneau 2024-2025

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WAML IB Editorial Staff

WAML Committees and Representatives

WAML Executive Board

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

WAML IB Editor: Sarah Zhang