a~~ni'IA-r•n-. OF CANADIAN MAP LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES l lfi~~J]~~~jijllijljW~ I I~~~~~~~~~ ASSOCIATION DES CARTOTHEQUES ET ARCHIVES CARTOGRAPHIQUES DU CANADA ·, ,· \'· ··:·._'. 1 - ( • ..- - t ) ..Jlt~lllll!ll m•vrctfull~· IU\l~1hr~ h1• · ~ 'fi~~ /.;{u,~., ...... •• c. - .... - \- .--:: .:.! ..·. ~ ./:·:~--- -_- ~;::· ·: ··'.::; -:,.··:: . ' ~J, ·. :,: ·.·;._'_; _ 7~ -.._ .. :. ~ ~.7/. ~ ~.;: <·:' ·. \:.-._,._';'_/ .,._.' ·' Per GA 193 CJA93b no. 138 I 2011 1 W inter 1 ' Porter NUMBER138/ WINTER 2011 NUMERO 138 I HIVER 2011 ASSOCIATION OF CANADIAN MAP LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES I ASSOCIATION DES CARTOTHEQUES ET ARCHIVES CARTOGRAPHIQUES DU CANADA MEMBERSHIP in the Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Peuvent devenir MEMBRES de !'Association des cartotheques et Archives is open to both individuals and institutions having an interest archives cartographiques du Canada tout individu et toute institutions in maps and the aims and objectives of the Association. Membership qui s'interessent aux cartes ainsi qu'aux objectifs de !'Association. dues are for the calendar year and are as follows: La cotisation annuelle est Ia suivante: Full (Canadian map field) ... $45.00 Membres actifs(cartotMcaires canadians a plein temps) ... 45$ Associate (anyone interested) ... $45.00 ($35 US) Membres associes (tout les interessees) ... 45,00$ Institutional. .. $65.00 ($50 US) Institutions ... 65,00$ Student... $20.00 Etudiant... 20,00$ Members receive the ACMLA Bulletin, the official joumal of the Le Bulletin de I'ACACC sera envoye aux membres trois fois par Association, which is published three times a year. an nee. Officers of the Association for 2010/2011 are: Les MEMBRES DU BUREAU de !'Association pour l'anne 2010/2011 sent: President I President 1st Vice President 11 er Vice-President Andrew Nicholson Ann Smith GIS/Data librarian, library Vaughan Memorial library University of Toronto at Mississauga Acadia University 3359 Mississauga Road North 50 Acadia Street Wolfville, Nova Scotia B4P 2R6 Mississauga, Ontario LSL 1C6 Phone: (902) 585-1378 Phone: (905) 828-3886 Fax: (902) 585-1748 Fax: (905) 569-4320 [email protected] [email protected] Past President I President sortant 2nd Vice President I 2e Vice-President Colleen Beard Dan Duda University Map Library Map Librarian Brock University Queen Elizabeth II Library St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1 Memorial University of Newfoundland Phone: (905) 688-5550 x 3468 St. John's, Newfoundland A 1B 3Y1 Fax: (905) 682-9020 Phone: 709-737-3198 [email protected] [email protected] Treasurer I Tresorier Secretary I Secretaire Susan Greaves Susan McKee GISIMap Librarian Maps, Academic Data, Geographic Info Centre Maps, Data & Government Information Centre MacKimmie Library Joseph S. 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The Assoc;.tion of Canadian Map L 1"b · . suppotf given by the SocialS . rarres and ~~chrves gratefully aclrnowledges the financial L'Association des cartothilques et archives cartographiques du Canada rumereie /e Consel de crences and Humamtres Research Council of Canada. recherches en sciences humaines du Canada pour son apport financier. ACMLA BULLETIN BULLETIN DE L'ACACC NUMBER 138 WINTER 2011 NUMERO 138 HIVER 2011 Bulletin Staff I Collaborateurs Table of Contents PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE- Andrew Nicholson 2 Editor: Cathy Moulder Carlisle, Ontario A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS: A email: [email protected] HISTORICAL LOOK AT THE NEW FRANCE MAPS OF NICOLAS SANSON- Ryan Slipetz 3 New Books and Atlases Editor: Eva Dodsworth SEARCHING FOR EARLY MAPS: USE OF ONLINE University Map Library University of Waterloo LIBRARY CATALOGS- Joel Kovasky 15 Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1 tel: (519) 888-456 7 x 36931 RESULTS OF THE ACMLA MEMBER SATISFACTION fax: (519) 888-4320 email: [email protected] SURVEY, January 2010- Colleen Beard 23 MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, New Maps Editor: Cheryl Woods Guelph, Ontario, June 17, 2010 33 Western Libraries University of Western Ontario WALTER MORRISON, 1924-2011 36 London, Ontario N6A 5C2 tel: (519) 661-3424 fax: (519) 661-3750 NEW BOOKS AND ATLASES- Eva Dodsworth 37 email: [email protected] NEW MAPS- Cheryl Woods 39 Reviews Editor: Volunteer needed CARTO 2011- DRAFT AGENDA/ CALENDRIER PROVISO IRE 41 Regional News Editor: Tom Anderson Private Records Provincial Archives of Alberta 8555 Roper Road Edmonton, Alberta T6E 5W1 tel: (780) 415-0700 fax (780) 427-4646 email: [email protected] ON THE COVER ... Geospatial Data and Software John Adams [London], 1826. ... Map of Quebec and its Environs, Reviews Editor: from Actual Survey 1822. Reproduced from an original in the Cartographic and Audio-Visual Archives Division, Library and Volunteer needed Archives Canada, as ACML Facsimile Map Series No. 116 (ISSN 0827-8024). John Adams [London], 1826.... Map of Quebec and its Environs, from Actual Survey 1822. Reproduit a partir d'un original de Ia Division des archives cartographiques et audiovisuelles, Bibliotheque et Archives Canada dans Ia Serie de cartes fac-similes de I'ACC, carte No. 116 (ISSN 0827-8024). ACMLA Bulletin Number 138, Winter 2011 PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Happy Spring everyone! organize and build a collection or are someone who has been working and/or managing a map 2011 ACMLA Conference collection for 20 years or more. As I write this, we are exactly one a month away from our 44th Annual Conference to be held Together I believe we can explore these from June 7th to the 10th at Laval University in questions and the survey results, and come Quebec City. The theme of this year's conference up with some concrete ideas for taking the is "the Future is Now". It should be an exciting Association forward. conference judging by the roster of workshops and sessions planned. Please join me and other members at the Fireside Chat on June 7th! I am especially looking forward to this year's "Icebreaker". Along with it being a traditional Thank you Cathy! social time for members to meet and reconnect, This issue of the Bulletin marks the last under we have added a new element to this years Cathy Moulder's editorship. On behalf of the IceBreaker: a "Fireside Chat". The focus of Executive and all the ACMLA members, I would the chat will be the 2010 Membership Survey like to extend heartfelt thanks to Cathy for all Results, which we had started discussing at last the time and dedication she has put towards years AGM in Guelph, but unfortunately with the Bulletin over the years. The Bulletin is a so much on our agenda, we ran out of time for very important forum for members to share a fuller discussion. Thankfully, Colleen Beard knowledge and communicate happenings in (who along with Grace Welch designed the their collections. Cathy's professionalism and Membership Survey) has written a summary of initiative has helped shape each issue of the the Survey results (also published in this issue), Bulletin into a high quality publication that is which we can use as a basis for discussion. As you eagerly anticipated by members through the will read, the Survey's purpose was to find out: year. Thank you Cathy for everything you have "How can the Association respond to the needs accomplished with our publication and for our and challenges ofits members?" Association! Moreover, as we manage technological and New Bulletin Editor professional changes as Map and GIS service At this point I would like to welcome our providers, how can we: new Bulletin editor. Eva Dodsworth from the "make the Association more attractive to University of Waterloo has agreed to become new members and those that are starting the new editor succeeding Cathy, and I believe to build geospatiaf/GIS collections and she will do a terrific job with us. I know Eva is services?" looking forward to getting started in the Fall and will be bringing a lot of enthusiasm to the As Colleen notes, the issues and challenges role. Welcome Eva!! facing members and prospective members are largely the same whether they are just starting to Continued on page 38 2 Bulletin de /'ACACC numero 138, hiver 2011 ACMLA Student Paper Award 2011 A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS: A HISTORICAL LOOK AT THE NEW FRANCE MAPS OF NICOLAS SANSON Ryan Sli petz History 4CZ3, "Advanced Research in Early Canadian History" McMaster University or historians studying New France, maps, and why he created the maps the way he did, Fprimary source documents are plentiful. I plan to compare his maps to other maps that are We have documents from religious officials contemporary to him. By comparing Sanson's maps (the Jesuit Relations) to documents from early to those of other cartographers, I hope to cement the "anthropologists" who interacted with the Native idea that Sanson's maps were designed in a specific 1 culture. While these documents are amazing in manner (much like other primary sources, especially their own right, I feel they do not tell the whole documents like the Jesuit Relations) and as a result, story.