Map Demonstration

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 20, 2008

Charles Nodler
(417) 625-9552

 

 

JOPLIN, MO (SNS) -

A Tri-State mining map demonstration will take place from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, Tuesday, April 8 in the 3rd Floor Connor Ballroom of the Billingsly Student Center at Missouri Southern State University.

Presenters will include Charles Nodler, Archivist at MSSU’s Spiva Library, and Chris Chappell, Jasper County Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Coordinator.

The demonstration is a collaborative grant project between the George A. Spiva Library and the Jasper and Newton County Environmental Task Force.

 

The Archives area of the Spiva Library at MSSU is the repository for a large number of maps of mines that covered the Tri-State area of Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma from the mid 19th to early 20th centuries.

 

An open house will immediately follow the presentation in the Archives area of the Spiva Library.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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