Grand Celebration and Exhibition to mark OML's Reopening
15 October 2009: American Treasures
opens in new OML Gallery
16 October 2009: Thoreau's Cartographic
Explorations: Imaging Nature through Maps by John W. Hessler,
Senior Cartographic Librarian, Geography and Map Division, Library of
Congress. 7pm. Hannaford Lecture Hall, Abromson Center, University of
Southern Maine (Portland campus). Open to the public.
17 October 2009: New Directions in
the Study of Early American Cartographies, a one-day conference at the
new Osher Map Library, featuring presentations by four scholars who pursue
new and exciting directions in the study of mapping of early America
(pre-1840). For
more information, click here. Registrants will be able to take guided
tours of OML's new facilities.
Click here to register.
18 October 2009: (afternoon)
open-house, ribbon-cutting, tours, family fun for the community.
Current OML Exhibition
March 14 through June 21, 2009:
"The fascination of maps as humanly created
documents is found not merely in the extent to which they are objective or
accurate. It also lies in their inherent ambivalence and in our ability to tease
out new meanings, hidden agendas, and contrasting world views from between the
lines on the image."
J. B. Harley
visitors
since May 17th, 1996.
