Getting Started with GIS: A LITA Guide

by Eva Dodsworth

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 Getting Started with 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.

200 pages, Paperback

First published February 28, 2012

Reviews

[DW]

Lots of lists of applications and approaches. Mostly that.