Getting Started With GIS A LITA Guide - LITA Guide

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 applicationsHow to distribute library content with map mash-upsWays to expand and enhance library services with GIS technologyGetting 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.

ISBN:	9781555707750
Publisher:	American Library Association
Imprint:	ALA Neal-Schuman
Published date:	30 Jan 2012
DEWEY:	025.27910285
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	183
Weight:	288g
Height:	152mm
Width:	227mm
Spine width:	11mm

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