Through March 31, 2025, all gifts to the Weaver Fund are doubled by an anonymous match

In 2023, David Weaver worked with LMEC staff to establish the David J. Weaver GIS Research Fund, a fund dedicated to expanding our knowledge of the history and practice of geographic information systems (GIS). The Fund is closely linked to two archival collections which document the history of computer cartography, also donated by Weaver: the David Judkins Weaver papers and the Applied Geographics, Inc. Records.

The Weaver Fund has two main goals:

• First, to document the history of GIS development, by strengthening our collections in this topic area, and connecting these collections with other important stories and materials outside of the BPL.
• Second, to help us tell stories about how computers and cartography impact our everyday lives through publication of original GIS research in the form of public scholarship, notably through a research award starting in 2026.

Please consider donating today to support our educational programming and public-facing research into the history of digital mapping.