[Rdap] Learning Opportunities with LITA: Getting Started with GIS

[Abigail Goben]

Coming for the New Year: Learning Opportunities with LITA

Getting Started with GIS <http://www.ala.org/lita/getting-started-gis>

Getting Started with GIS is a three week course modeled on Eva Dodsworth’s
LITA Guide of the same name
<http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=4007>. The course provides
an introduction to GIS technology and GIS (Geographic Information
System) in libraries. Through hands on exercises, discussions and recorded
lectures, students will acquire skills in using GIS software programs,
social mapping tools, map making, digitizing, and researching for
geospatial data. This three week course provides introductory GIS skills
that will prove beneficial in any library or information resource position.

Instructor: Eva Dodsworth, University of Waterloo

Offered: January 12 – February 9, 2015, with asynchronous weekly lectures,
tutorials, assignments, and group discussion. There will be one 80 minute
lecture to view each week, along with two tutorials and one assignment that
will take 1-3 hours to complete, depending on the student. Moodle login
info will be sent to registrants the week prior to the start date.

WebCourse Costs: LITA Member: $135 ALA Member: $195 Non-member: $260

Register Online
<http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=oloc&Template=/Conference/ConferenceList.cfm&ConferenceTypeCode=L>,
page arranged by session date (login required)

No previous mapping or GIS experience is necessary. Some of the mapping
applications covered include:

• Introduction to Cartography and Map Making
• Online Maps
• Google Earth
• KML and GIS files
• ArcGIS Online and Story Mapping
• Brief introduction to desktop GIS software

Participants will gain the following GIS (Geographic Information System)
skills:

• Knowledge of popular online mapping resources
• ability to create an online map
• an introduction to GIS, GIS software and GIS data
• an awareness of how other libraries are incorporating GIS technology into
their library services and projects

Instructor: Eva Dodsworth is the Geospatial Data Services Librarian at the
University of Waterloo Library where she is responsible for the provision
of leadership and expertise in developing, delivering, and assessing
geospatial data services and programs offered to members of the University
of Waterloo community. Eva is also an online part-time GIS instructor at a
number of Library School programs in North America.

Register Online
<http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=oloc&Template=/Conference/ConferenceList.cfm&ConferenceTypeCode=L>,
page arranged by session date (login required)

For all other questions or comments related to the course, contact
LITA at (312)
280-4268 or Mark Beatty, mbeatty at ala.org.

-- 
Abigail Goben, MLS
abigailgoben at gmail.com
http://HedgehogLibrarian.com
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