Good Morning All, In case you haven't heard I was elected Chair of the GeoLibrary Board in January. We are embarking on a strategic planning process and have issued a request for proposals and hope to have a contractor on board by the end of June to assist with this project. If you are a vendor interested in submitting a proposal you can find the RFP posted on the State of Maine Bureau of purchasing website. I had an interesting conversation with a couple board members the other day. I offered that I thought the GeoLibrary should be a resource for more than just state geographic data. It should also provide linkages to non-state data where possible but it should also host geographic data created for other governmental entities that do not have the resources to publicly host the data. I think it should also be a resource for other public data created for many other purposes. I found that at least these two board members did not agree. I am curious, as a member of this list serve and presumably a user of geographic data in your GIS applications, should the library host non-state data or should only host state data, provide links to any other non-state data and ignore all other geospatial data being developed. Especially the Maine related data which may be one small subdivision of the state or something regional in scope. I am very interested in hearing your thoughts. Joe Young Public Member Chairman of the Board Maine Library of Geographic Information 207-931-7626 [log in to unmask] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This list Maine GeoNews (GEOLIBRARY-L) is an unmoderated discussion list for all Maine GIS Users. If you no longer wish to receive e-mail from this list, you can remove your name and email address yourself at the this web address: https://lists.maine.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=GEOLIBRARY-L&A=1 Or, you may also request that your name be removed by sending email to: [log in to unmask]