Delivered by Larry Laliberte, Maps/GIS Librarian, this session will provide participants with an overview of the current landscape of GIS data and historical map access, resources, and emerging projects that are contextualizing maps, enriching visualization, and increasing text searchability. The session will also weave “pivot-on-the-floor” cabinet curation, with threads of scanning, metadata, and the recent migration/upload of the William C. Wonders Map Collection’s digital maps to Internet Archive (IA). There will be time at the end of the session for questions and discussion.

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Larry Laliberte GIS/Maps Librarian (Practitioner), settler living on treaty six lands (him/he/they). Previously worked as GIS/Map Librarian at the University of Oregon, and the University of Manitoba. My current position (since 2012) involves working with digital spatial data and their use within Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Since 2015 I have also been co-curating the William C. Wonders Map Collection. Having a virtual foot in the digital and one physically alongside three large print map collections has been a fascinating professional journey. It is one with many interesting lateral, temporal and format changes along both institutional timeframes, and in many cases, within minutes during the reference process.