GIS in academic libraries: A managerial perspective

Boissé, Joseph A.; Larsgaard, Mary Lynette

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“…Students from other departments need GIS not just for reference but also to enhance their research work. Boisse and Larsgaard (1995) pointed out that GIS is a service increasingly in demand by users of academic libraries, and if libraries fail to provide this service they will be marginalized by the academic community. GIS also provides exciting opportunities: Its potential exists in virtually all subject disciplines; hence, the need for the library to make available GIS services to its numerous patrons.…”

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Availability and Accessibility of Geographic Information Systems in Nigerian Federal Universities of Technology Libraries

Musa

Abubakar

2014

Journal of Map & Geography Libraries

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This study was carried out to investigate the availability and accessibility of Geographic Information Systems in technology librariesof Nigerian federal universities. A survey research design was designed, with three research questions being formulated. The total of 1,422 respondents, including students, faculty, staff GIS users, and librarians constituted the population and sample size of this study from federal universities of technology at Akure, Minna, Owerri, and Abubakar Tafawa Belewa University, Bauchi. Two sets of questionnaires were used to collect data for this study, one for the GIS users and another for the librarians. The data collected were presented and analyzed using a frequency distribution table and percentages. The study found, among other results, that there are computer hardware units for GIS operation, though some peripherals such as like plotters and scanners were less available among selected Nigerian federal universities of technology (FUTs), and ArcView was the prominent type of GIS software that was available for GIS operations. This study concluded that GIS services would be better utilized if they were brought into the library, which is the information hub of the university. Lastly, it was recommended that the university library collaborate with organizations that deal with spatial information or GIS-related departments in the university to 347 348 H. Musa and P. Abubakar facilitate GIS services' integration into the array of existing library services.

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Availability and Accessibility of Geographic Information Systems in Nigerian Federal Universities of Technology Libraries

Musa

Abubakar

2014

Journal of Map & Geography Libraries

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“…The management and access to these geospatial data was one of the key challenges that librarians face. Many academic libraries have purchased computer hardware and software to store and manage these datasets, and provided users data access via library visits (Boissé and Larsgaard, 1995).…”

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One store has all? - the backend story of managing geospatial information toward an easy discovery

Kong

2019

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Geospatial data includes many formats, varying from historical paper maps, to digital information collected by various sensors. Many libraries have started the efforts to build a geospatial data portal to connect users with the various information. For example, GeoBlacklight and OpenGeoportal are two open-source projects that initiated from academic institutions which have been adopted by many universities and libraries for geospatial data discovery. While several recent studies have focused on the metadata, usability and data collection perspectives of geospatial data portals, not many have explored the backend stories about data management to support the data discovery platform. The objective of this paper is to provide a summary about geospatial data management strategies involved in the geospatial data portal development by reviewing case studies. These data management strategies include managing the historical paper maps, scanned maps, aerial photos, research generated geospatial information, and web map services. This paper focuses on the data organization, storage, cyberinfrustracture configuration, preservation and sharing perspectives of these efforts with the goal to provide a range of options or best management practices for information managers when curating geospatial data in their own institutions.

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“…Most of the literature on GIS in higher education has focused on research universities (see, e.g., Boissé and Larsgaard 1995;Cline and Adler 1995;McGlamery 1995;Argentati 1997;Lopez and Larsgaard 1998;Suh and Lee 1999;Sweetkind-Singer and Williams 2001). The two most comprehensive collections of policy documents (Soete 1997;Salem 2005) provide an overview of the GIS programs at 30 universities, including the University of California, Berkeley, Cornell University, Harvard University, McMaster University, the University of Toronto, and the University of Virginia.…”

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Geographic Information Services in the Undergraduate College: Organizational Models and Alternatives

Cady¹,

Walters²,

Olsen³

et al. 2008

Cartographica

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Although GIS is well established at most research universities, it has only recently been integrated into the instructional programs of many undergraduate colleges. This article explores three organizational models for implementing GIS in the undergraduate environment: the departmental model (GIS based in a single academic department), the non-departmental model (GIS based in another agency, such as the library or the computer centre), and the ''no centre'' model (in which there is no identifiable centre for GIS despite its use in teaching and research). Survey results from 55 liberal arts colleges in the United States reveal that institutions with GIS centres (departmental or otherwise) tend to have enhanced instructional capabilities, better institutional support, and greater capacity to handle large-scale demand for GIS. Non-departmental GIS centres are associated with several additional advantages: the availability of GIS courses in a wide range of academic disciplines, increased support for faculty just beginning to learn GIS, and higher potential demand for GIS resources and services. These findings may indicate that non-departmental GIS centres encourage the diffusion of GIS across multiple departments, or that non-departmental centres are most likely to emerge at colleges where GIS is already well established across a range of disciplines. RésuméMême si les SIG sont bien établis dans la plupart des universités axées sur la recherche, ils n'ont été intégrés dans les programmes de plusieurs collèges d'enseignement au premier cycle que tout récemment. Dans l'article, on explore trois modèles organisationnels pour la mise en oeuvre des SIG dans un milieu d'enseignement au premier cycle : le modèle départemental (les SIG font partie d'un seul département d'enseignement), le modèle non départemental (les SIG font partie d'un autre service, comme la bibliothèque ou le centre informatique) et le modèle sans centre (dans lequel il n'y a cartographica (volume 43, issue 4), pp. 239-255 doi:10.3138/carto.43.4.239 239aucun centre de SIG défini, malgré son utilisation pour l'enseignement et la recherche). Selon un sondage mené auprès de 55 collèges d'arts libéraux aux États-Unis, les établissements ayant des centres SIG (départementaux ou autres) ont tendance à avoir des capacités pédagogiques accentuées, un meilleur soutien pédagogique et une meilleure capacité de répondre à une demande à grande échelle pour des SIG. Les centres de SIG non départementaux offrent plusieurs autres avantages : la disponibilité des cours en SIG dans un large éventail de disciplines, un soutien accru pour le personnel enseignant qui découvre les SIG et une demande potentiellement plus élevée pour les ressources et les services liés aux SIG. Ces résultats pourraient indiquer que les centres de SIG non départementaux favorisent la diffusion des SIG dans de multiples départements, ou que les centres non associés à un département sont les plus susceptibles d'apparaître dans les collèges dans lesquels les SIG sont déjà bien en place dans un lar...

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GIS in academic libraries: A managerial perspective

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Availability and Accessibility of Geographic Information Systems in Nigerian Federal Universities of Technology Libraries

Availability and Accessibility of Geographic Information Systems in Nigerian Federal Universities of Technology Libraries

One store has all? - the backend story of managing geospatial information toward an easy discovery

Geographic Information Services in the Undergraduate College: Organizational Models and Alternatives

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