GIS coolness
Nearing the top of my rapidly-expanding to-do list is acquiring a book on Geographic Information Systems to read on the plane to Ruritania next week. (Going to try to dig one up tomorrow morning, if I can get down to campus early enough. Recommendations welcome.)
The latest RLG DigiNews just happened to include this article on digitizing maps from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which contains a clear and (to my admittedly unsophisticated eye) fairly comprehensive description of how they did it.
My gosh, is this GIS stuff gorgeously elegant or what? I love it! I wish somebody at SLIS taught it—I would have hung on every word. And the bit about cross-referencing place names through a gazetteer is brilliant.