I have to give a half-hour presentation to a Government Documents Librarian
Colloquium at the Georgia Library Association this Friday.  The topic is GIS in
document libraries.  Most of the government documents librarians will be from
non-regional depositories and smaller libraries.  I will talk about the very
wide range of information they are receiving, or will receive, in digital
formats.  I will use a very wide defination of GIS, emphasizing spatial
information, rather than systems of analysis.  I will describe what I think is
a reasonable minimum hardware system.  Here in the Map Collection we are using
Sammamish to process census data.  However that may be more expensive in money
and expertise than some of the departments can afford.  Does anyone have some
suggestions of software to read the census CDs??  I have not yet found anything
cheap or easy to use that will read the DOQs.  Any suggestions??  I will talk
about ArcView but will recommend they wait for ArcView II, or that they not
get into GIS software at this point.  Any suggestions??
 
Johnnie Sutherland
Map Collection
University of Georgia