Getting Started With GIS: A LITA Guide - Softcover

Dodsworth, Eva

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555707750 ISBN 13: 9781555707750

Verlag: Association of College & Research Libraries, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

GIS technology has evolved into a multidisciplinary research and social tool used by everyone. Dodsworth introduces spatial literacy, online mapping programs, desktop GIS software programs and geospatial data. Written as a primer for librarians without previous GIS experience, it includes several hands-on activities demonstrating how to incorporate the technology into an existing system. Readers become proficient in mapping technology and learn to work with several GIS tools used by communities, academics and business leaders today. Included in the text:

• How to use editable mapping applications
• How to distribute library content with map mash-ups
• Ways to expand and enhance library services with GIS technology

Getting Started with GIS: A LITA Guide makes GIS simple for all library staff. Written by a practitioner who has taught hundreds of public, academic, and special librarians, readers learn how to use and promote GIS so that it can be utilized by all library patrons.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Association of College & Research Libraries
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1555707750
• ISBN 13: 9781555707750
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 183
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande