AbstractHow to Create a GIS Centre in a Library Track: Using GIS in Libraries & Museums Author(s): James Boxall, Jennifer Strang, Jennifer Strang, James Boxall Dalhousie University started with "GIS in Libraries" a decade ago with one computer and ArcView. Today we have progressed to a GIS Centre. A vice presidential campuswide committee generated a report outlining three interrelated thrusts—the GIS Centre, research, and teaching. The Centre is central in data gathering, license negotiations, delivering software training, credit courses, managing Esri licenses on campus, project design and implementation, analysis consultation, cartographic production, staff sitting on thesis committees, and participating in funded research projects. The Libraries provide infrastructure, and the Centre works through the Esri programs for Libraries. The Centre is still required to act like a library but with significant differences. This presentation addresses how it evolved from a map library, why such a Centre remains within the libraries, how the services developed, and its uniqueness in terms of the GIS in Libraries program, focusing in particular on Canada. James Boxall Dalhousie University GIS Centre, University Libraries 6225 University Avenue Halifax B3H 4H8 CA Phone: 902-494-6126 E-mail: james.boxall@dal.ca Jennifer Strang GIS Centre Killam Library 6225 University Avenue Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4H8 CA Phone: 902-494-1386 E-mail: jennifer.strang@dal.ca Jennifer Strang GIS Centre Killam Library 6225 University Avenue Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4H8 CA Phone: 902-494-1386 E-mail: jennifer.strang@dal.ca James Boxall GIS Centre Killam Library 6225 University Avenue Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4H8 CA Phone: 902-494-6126 E-mail: james.boxall@dal.ca |