Notice: CLOSURE OF THE NEW BODLEIAN READING ROOM - relocation of the Map Reading Room. Over the course of the summer, the Map, Music and Oriental services will be relocated in anticipation of the major refurbishment of the New Bodleian Library building, due to take place over the next five years.

Maps reference material will be moved to Duke Humfrey's Library. The New Bodleian Reading Room is expected to close on Friday 10th September* and the move will be completed in the week beginning 13th September*, during which time Duke Humfrey's Library will also need to be closed for a period and the Map open shelf collections will be unavailable.

More information will be posted on the Library's webpages as it becomes available. If you have further questions about the moves and their impact on services, please contact Library staff as follows:

Maps
maps@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
01865 277013 / 287300

Talks and lectures

The Map Curators’ Group of the British Cartographic Society invites map curators, map librarians, archivists and all those charged with the care of maps to its 2010 Workshop at Cambridge University Library, England, 8-10 September 2010.

Theme is Beyond the neat line: More than just geography, what the marginalia tells us, how early mass-produced paper maps were printed, and how digital initiatives are giving map users more possibilities than ever before.

Wednesday 8 September: there are five talks with speakers from Britain, Europe and America

- Martin Andrews, University of Reading Department of Typography, 18th and 19th century map printing processes
- Steve Chilton and Ifan Shepherd, Middlesex University, Staff carriers and bean counters: Unravelling the who and the why of the first 6-inch survey of England and Wales
- Marco van Egmond, Map Curator, Utrecht University Library, Collecting digital cartographic data in Utrecht: storage and accessibility
- Matt Knutzen, Geospatial Librarian, The New York Public Library Map Division, Maps@NYPL: New collaborative methods in (re)presenting historical geography
- Richard Oliver, University of Exeter, Honorary Research Fellow in the History of Cartography, 20th century Ordnance Survey paper map marginalia and metadata

Please see brochure with full details at http://www.cartography.org.uk/downloads/MCG/MCG_Sept2010_brochure_final.pdf and our booking form at http://www.cartography.org.uk/downloads/MCG/MCG_Sept2010_booking_form_final.pdf.

A conference to celebrate its recent acquisition of the Sidereus Nuncius, originally published 400 years ago by Galileo Galilei, in March, 1610. The "Starry Messenger", as it is often translated, contains the first telescopic images of the moon along with its mountains and craters, as well as the moons of Jupiter, and the first telescopic celestial maps of parts of the Milky Way. The book was revolutionary not only its findings and observations but also in the influence that it had on latter scientific and cartographic representations of celestial objects.

The conference is free and is open to the public. More details will be available in the coming weeks.
Contact  John Hessler, Senior Cartographic Librarian, Geography and Map Division, www.warpinghistory.blogspot.com

Arlington, Texas Map Week
Three events under the theme: The cartography of chartered companies
7th Biennial Virginia Garrett Lecture
Texas Map Society fall meeting
3rd International Symposium on the History of Cartography
8th-13th October, 2010
contact Josef Demhardt (demhardt@uta.edu)

CEMAf, the National Library of France and the French Committee of Cartography Seminars
Mapping Africa from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century
Construction, Transmission and Circulation of Cartographic Knowledge about Africa
Europe, Arab world and Africa
December 2nd & 3rd, 2010
Contact Camille Lefebvre (camillelefebvre@yahoo.fr)

Brussels International Map Collectors’ Circle Conference
Details to be announced. One day symposium of talks in English.
4th December 2010
Contact Caroline de Candt (caroline.de.candt@skynet.be)

'MAPS AND SOCIETY'
The Warburg Institute
TWENTIETH Series: 2010-2011
Meetings are held on selected Thursdays at The Warburg Institute, University of London,Woburn Square, London WC1H OAB at 5.00 pm. Admission is free.
Meetings are followed by refreshments. All are most welcome. Enquiries: +44 (0) 20 8346 5112 (Dr Delano Smith) or < info@tonycampbell.info >.

2010
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November 4. Professor Adrian Seville (formerly City University, London). 'Cartographic Race Games in Europe: Entertainment, Education - or Influence?'

December 2. Professor Meg Roland (English Literature and Writing, Marylhurst University, Oregon). 'The Compost of Ptolemy and the Gosson Map (1600/1623?): English Geographic Thought and the Early Modern Print Almanac'.

2011
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January 20. Gillian Hutchinson (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich). 'The First Two Centuries of Mercator Projection Sea Charts: Positioning the Practitioners, Leaving the Ships at Sea?'
MEETING SPONSORED BY THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY

February 17. Emeritus Professor Roy Bridges (Department of History, University of Aberdeen). 'Cartography and Credulity: Mapping the Sources of the Nile since 150 AD'.

March 3. Dr John Montague (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin). 'London 1747 and Dublin 1756: John Rocque's Capital City Maps'.

March 31.Tom Harper (Maps, British Library). 'A Window on the World: Maps in the European Schoolroom in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries'.

May 5. Dr Diarmuid Scully (School of History, University College, Cork). 'Mapping the Farthest Western lands: Gerald of Wales on Ireland and English Imperium in the Twelfth Century'.

May 26. Professor Emeritus P. D. A. Harvey (Department of History, University of Durham). 'Local Maps in Medieval Europe. The Last Twenty Years'.

Exhibitions

Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art
30th April - 19th September 2010
Unfortunately finishes just before our symposium - visit London before this one closes!
British Library

Strait Through: Magellan to Cook & the Pacific
The exhibition runs until January 2011 at Princeton, but a version of it is accessible online now:  http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/pacific/entrance.html

For a comprehensive list of events and exhibitions visit John Docktor’s site