Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Bob Parry and Chris Perkins -- The changing profile of the map user / Carol Marley -- Organizational change / Nick Millea -- The changing role of GIS in the map room / Jennifer Stone Muilenburg -- Offline digital maps / Bob Parry -- Maps and the Internet / Michael P. Peterson -- Web resources and the map library / Menno-Jan Kraak -- Metadata and standards: confusion or convergence? / Jan Smits -- Old maps in a modern world / Christopher Baruth -- Spatial data and intellectual property rights / Robert Barr -- Taking care of business: map libraries and the new 'mapping' industry / Pip Forer -- A map user's perspective / Alan Godfrey -- Perspectives on map use and map users in the digital era / David Fairbairn -- The map dealer / Russell Guy -- Is there a future for the map library? / Chris Perkins and Bob Parry.