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Thanks to all that responded. Below is the original request followed by the
responses.
 
 
 
 As an informal poll, we were wondering how many academic libraries are using
 a GIS. No detailed information is needed. We would like to know:
 
   * Your institution's name
   * GIS software used
   * hardware supporting the GIS
   * do you have trained staff supporting the GIS?
   * how the GIS is being used in the library?
 
 Responses sent directly to me will be summarized for a later posting.
 
 Brian Franklin
 Government Information
 Price Gilbert Memorial Library
 Georgia Institute of Technology
 email: [log in to unmask]
 phone: (404) 894-4519
 
 
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At the University of Central Florida we use a product from Sammamish as
well as LandviewII to map census data thematically.
 
John Walters
Gov. Docs
University of Central Florida Library.
 
 
 
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You may have already received a message from Van Schwartz, the Map
Librarian here at ISU, that we do not have a GIS.  In fact, we do not
have any kind of electronic map CD's--it's on my mind because we just met
to formulate equipment requests for next year and that was one of the
many proposals (and a good one, too, IMHO!).
We refer GIS-interested patrons to the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
 
Barbara B. Alexander, Head Gen.Ref.&Documents   309.438.7044 (Voice)
Milner Library, Illinois State University       309.438.3676 (Fax)
Campus Box 8900                                 [log in to unmask]
Normal, IL 61790-8900
 
 
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  * Your institution's name   SEE BELOW
  * GIS software used       SAMMAMISH (WE ALSO HAVE ARCVIEW 2 BUT HAVE NOT
              USED IT.
  * hardware supporting the GIS (COMPUADD 486/33MGH MACHINE, 16 MG RAM, 1 GIG
          HARD DRIVE.  WORKS FINE)
  * do you have trained staff supporting the GIS?  (2 DOCUMENT LIBRARIANS
        WE HAVE NOT HIRED A PERSON SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS PURPOSE.
 
  * how the GIS is being used in the library?  (IT IS USED BY STUDENTS,
     FACULTY, AND SOON WE WILL BE MAPPING FOR A LOCAL COMPANY.  IT IS DONE
     BY APPOINTMENT ONLY BECAUSE OF THE VERY INTENSIVE LABOR INVOLVED.
     USUALLY PATRONS ARE ABLE TO LEARN SIMPLE PROCEDURES FOR THEMSELVES AND
     DO NOT NEED CONSTANT ASSISTANCE FROM LIBRARY STAFF.
 
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Edward Herman                                      BITNET: LOLHERMA@UBVM
Associate Librarian               INTERNET: [log in to unmask]
Business and Government Documents Center           PHONE: (716) 645-6210
Lockwood Library                                     FAX: (716) 645-3721
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, N.Y. 14260
 
 
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* Harvard Map Collection, Harvard University
 
* ArcView, MapInfo
 
* Three PC workstations, CD-ROM readers, color printer
 
* Most work involves selecting social and economic data from the 1990
  Census, creating data attribute tables, and combining these with TIGER
  '92 boundary files. We DO NOT use the federal data but have opted for the
  Wessex census and boundary files.
 
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David A. Cobb                           Tel (617) 495-2417
Harvard Map Collection                  FAX (617) 496-0440
Harvard University                      E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
Cambridge, MA 02138
                        VE * RI * TAS
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  * Your institution's name
 
     Gregg-Graniteville Library
     University of South Carolina - Aiken
 
  * GIS software used
 
     Samammish Data Systems - Geosight Factfinder
 
  * hardware supporting the GIS
 
     486/66 Zenith 16 megs ram, 500 meg harddrive, HP 560C Deskjet
 
  * how the GIS is being used in the library
 
     Mostly mapping stf3a 1990 census data at county, tract, block group
     levels. Institution is not really supporting GIS services.
     Hope to take some brief articles w/maps already completed and
     tack a county atlas web page to the campus web page very soon
     to demonstrate to budget bean counters the marketing and grant
     support capabilities of the GIS to let them know what they're
     missing.