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Workshop Information

The project team is conducting three regional sessions during the Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) Spring Workshops and two all-day workshops.

The regional workshops are 75-minute sessions, which provide an overview of Sanborn fire insurance maps and introduce and explain the use and significance of Building Colorado Story by Story: The Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Collection.

The all-day workshops will include sessions on the basics of reading and using maps, map library collection development, map cataloging, an introduction to Sanborn fire insurance maps and Building Colorado Story by Story: The Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Collection, hands-on experience with the digital collection, and the development of plans to use the maps in participants’ libraries.

Accidental Map Librarian (All-day workshops)

  • March 29, 2007: University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO
  • May 11, 2007: Western State College, Gunnison, CO
Colorado Sanborn Maps: A Window to the Past and a Tool for the Future (75-minute workshops)
  • March 16, 2007: Aims Event Center, Greeley, CO
  • March 23, 2007: Two Rivers Convention Center, Grand Junction, CO
  • April 20, 2007: Pueblo Convention Center, Pueblo, CO

Visit CLiC’s workshop pages for more information.

New: Sanborn Maps Tutorial
Learn about the history of Sanborn fire insurance maps and how to use CU Boulder's digital collection. A two-part tutorial from the Colorado Library Consortium.

 
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