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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:04:30 -0400
From: Lorre Smith <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: "GIS on Location" program July 10, Chicago
Sender: Lorre Smith <[log in to unmask]>
There are still slots available for all three field trips, so contact the
LITA GIS Interest Group program coordinator for the trip that looks best to
you now!!
For all ALA attendees:
Library and Information Technology Association
Geographical Information Systems
Interest Group
Chicago Annual American Library Association Conference, 2000
Program:
"GIS On Location"
July 10, 2000
Monday Morning, 9:00am
View best GIS practices in an academic, public agency or corporate setting.
This program has three concurrent on-site tours: University of Chicago ,
Northeast Illinois Planning Commission or Rand-McNally Corporation.
See the individual field trip details at:
http://www.albany.edu/~ls973/LITAGIS.html
GIS Interest Group members will coordinate public transportation to your
chosen site, where the institution's staff member will discuss their GIS
environment. Each of the three groups is limited, so please reserve a
space with the GIS Interest Group program coordinator for the site you wish
to visit. Their email contact information is within the description of each
location (below).
University of Chicago Map Collection
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/maps/
GIS Interest Group program coordinator: Patrick McGlamery,
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Christopher Winters, map librarian at the University of Chicago Map
Collection will discuss public service access to spatial data in a large
research university. The University of Chicago Map Collection is one of the
largest university map libraries in North America. Its 395,000 maps, 10,000
air photos, and 2000 books are a rich source of information for scholars
and other users.
Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission
http://www.nipc.cog.il.us/
GIS Interest Group program coordinator: Lisa Russell, [log in to unmask]
Nina Savar, GIS Manager at the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission
(NIPC), will discuss the Chicago Region GIS Clearinghouse and Catalog. The
Chicago Region Clearinghouse facilitates centralized, orderly cataloguing
of data in the larger Chicago metropolitan region and is one of the
National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Clearinghouse Nodes. The
Chicago Region GIS and Data Catalog provides web-access to the metadata in
this collection.
Rand McNally Corporation
http://www.randmcnally.com/
GIS Interest Group program coordinator: Dean Jue, [log in to unmask]
>From its beginnings as a small Chicago printing shop in 1856, Rand McNally
& Company launched a 144-year journey that has led the company to its place
as the world's premier provider of geographic and travel information. In
our behind-the-scenes field trip, we will learn the best practices of how
this corporation organizes and manages its geographic data internally so
that it can respond quickly to changing consumer geographic needs. All
types of practicing librarians that manage geographic data will benefit
from learning about how Rand McNally does it.
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Ms. Lorre Smith
Librarian for Digital Library Initiatives
University Libraries LE 310
University at Albany
State University of New York
1400 Washington Ave.
Albany, NY 12222
Telephone: 518/437-3966 ; Fax: 518/442-3567;
Electronic Mail: [log in to unmask]
For information on copyright: http://www.albany.edu/~ls973/copy.html
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