A New Model of Geographic Information Librarianship: Description, Curriculum and Program Proposal

Weimer, Katherine H.; Reehling, Pete

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“…The findings also show that the least available GIS services were spatial analysis, with 97 (8.0%) responses; remote sensing, 273 (22.8%); linking applications of computerized site maps, aerial photographs, and satellite images, 18 (1.5%); and image georeferencing, 315 (26.2%) responses. Generally, the availability of services in these FUTs depended on the availability of facilities, which is in line with the position of Weimer and Reehling (2006) who noted that library service levels vary widely, depending on the nature and priorities of the library systems and campus community. But when comparing Tables 4.3 and 4.4, we can see that servers are available (1,023 or 85.2% of responses), but linking the computerized site map applications, aerial photographs, and satellite images with 18 responses (1.5%) was much lower.…”

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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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“…Weimer and Reehling (2006) defined an area of specialization within academic librarianship that they dubbed "geographic information librarianship," which was conceived as a merging of traditional map librarianship.…”

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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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“…Todas las ofertas de empleo destacan que, como requisito fundamental, el candidato/a tenga diploma o master en documentación complementado con conocimientos en SIG. Además, en todas ellas se hace hincapié, como tareas preferibles a desempeñar, el mantenimiento de la colección de datos geográficos (Florance, 2007) que incluye la organización, análisis y preservación (Sweetkind-Singer et al, 2006), así como la gestión de metadatos, ofrecer servicios de referencia y difusión, y llevar a cabo actividades de enlace entre departamentos que lleven a cabo actividades relacionadas con SIG (Weimer;Reehling, 2006). Quizá lo más importante de las ofertas de empleo anteriores es que se pide como formación primaria información y documentación, complementada con conocimientos de SIG a nivel de experiencia y/o formación.…”

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Se busca geobibliotecario: los datos geográficos entran en la biblioteca

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Aguilar-Moreno²

2013

El Profesional de la Informacion

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“…In academic libraries, in addition to traditional printed planography sources, geographical libraries collect, publish and use geographical data (Weimer and Reehling, 2006). In response to the growing demand from the GIS librarians, the American Libraries Association's Map and Geography Education Committee Round Table (MAGERT) developed a set of major criteria for this type of information professional (Weimer and Reehling, 2006). Xia (2004a) conceived the benefits of the GIS in LIS studies as an underlying reason for its application.…”

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The factors and criteria for prioritization of GIS utilization by libraries

Pournaghi

Babalhavaeji

2015

The Electronic Library

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Purpose -This paper aims to identify the impressive factors on choosing the type of the libraries and information centers and determining their significance and prioritizing them and finally determining the priority of each type according to the identified factors to implement geographic information system (GIS) in the library researches. Design/methodology/approach -A combination of documentary, Delphi and analytic methods was used in the current study. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the topic in mind, different dimensions of the issue were firstly identified through reviewing the research literature. Then, the Delphi panel was formed and the factors and indices for choosing and prioritizing the libraries were extracted and finally the analytic-hierarchy and Topsis method was used for analyzing and ranking the data which were collected through a questionnaire. In this way, the instrument was devised by the researcher and the population under the study consisted of the professors in two fields of LIS and the GIS. The criteria include the "access to the library", "being active", "the number of sources", "the size and space of the place", "the library equipment", "compatibility" each one include eight, seven, five, five, two and five factors, respectively. Findings -In the Delphi study, six factors including 32 indices were determined for prioritizing the libraries to implement the GIS in the library researches. The analytic-hierarchy method was applied to compare the factors correspondingly in terms of the degree of their significance. In this way, "access to the library sources", "being active", "the number of sources", "the size and space of the place", "the library equipment" and "compatibility" were identified as the factors on choosing the library type with the values of 0.39, 0.24, 0.16, 0.08, 0.07 and 0.06, respectively. Then, several types of the libraries were ranked and the findings show that academic libraries are prioritized as the first one for conducting the GIS projects. Originality/value -Employing the factors resulted from the conducted researches is recommended for choosing the libraries to implement the GIS, so that the researches in this interdisciplinary field become more organized. To extend the current study, the extracted factors and indices can be sent to the professors of the LIS from the other countries to elicit their insights and thereby, designing a standard international checklist for choosing the libraries and information centers in the GIS projects.

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A New Model of Geographic Information Librarianship: Description, Curriculum and Program Proposal

Cited by 16 publications

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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

Se busca geobibliotecario: los datos geográficos entran en la biblioteca

The factors and criteria for prioritization of GIS utilization by libraries

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