AbstractMetadata Literacy/Information Literacy: Library Instruction for GIS Track: Using GIS in Libraries & Museums Author(s): Jeremy Donald At an academic library that supports GIS use by teaching faculty, the principles and practices of information literacy instruction have been applied to the support and instruction of GIS. Students in a political science course and in a biology lab were each given GIS projects and assignments, with the GIS librarian as liaison and instructor. In each case, students were introduced to the fundamentals of spatial analysis. They were also taught about spatial data after the model of information literacy for print: Emphasis was placed on data citation and evaluation in addition to the finding and identifying of data. Students were asked not only to use spatial data in the applied software but to create, cite, and input metadata into the files they created as well as share commentary and information about data, its sources, and their applications of it in an online forum. Jeremy Donald Trinity University Library One Trinity Place San Antonio, TX 78212 US Phone: 210-999-8176 E-mail: jdonald@trinity.edu |