Dear Estefania,and all, May all have a Happy New Year full of health, piece and love, for us and our families! My name is Ifigenia Vardakosta and my research is focusing in the geospatial collections and GIS services in academic libraries https://hua.academia.edu/IfigeniaVardakosta, http://www.slideshare.net/IfiVar/edit_my_uploads Mainly, I'm interested for the geospatial collection development policies. I've written several articles in the field and now I'm in the middle of a research for the same subject for Europe and Australia. I hope that the results of my research will help to the geospatial collection development in Greek academic libraries. Undoubtedly, US, Canada, and Australia have a precedence in the development of such collections, however there are several institutions/universities/organizations that have developed some kind of geospatial collections and GIS services in Europe, as far as I know for my research so far. I find your question really interesting and the answers that the members of the list will give it will be of a great interest of me, too. Happy New Year! Ifigenia Vardakosta Head Librarian Library & Information Centre Harokopio University of Athens El.Venizelou 70 176-71 Kallithea, Greece [log in to unmask] Phd Candidate Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing Department of Archives, Library Science and Museum Studies Faculty of Information Science and Informatics Ionian University Ioannou Theotoki 72, Corfu 49100, Greece [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Maps-L: Discussion Forum for Maps, Air Photo, Map Librarianship, GIS, etc. on behalf of Estefanía Aguilar Moreno Sent: Fri 1/2/2015 10:19 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: GIS academic libraries in Europe Hi all, my name is Estefania Aguilar and I am lately focusing my research in the level of development of spatial data and GIS services from academic libraries in Spain, and I am looking for some help. It seems that not just Spanish academic libraries, but also European, are not putting enough resources to deploy this kind of services or at least not at the same level of other countries. From what I have read (and was written), most of the experiences have been developed in the States, Canada or Australia, so I wondered if you know about any concrete experience - regarding geospatial data and libraries - in Europe. I guess that my other question has no answer, but... Do you know any resource that talks about the volume of geograhic data, inside research data numbers, generated by universitites? I would be glad If we can find a thread for continuing our research. Now that we all entered in 2015, I would also like to wish you a happy and fruitful 2015!! Thank you!! -- Estefania Aguilar Moreno Institute of New Imaging Technologies (INIT) Espaitec 2, 5th floor Office UB-1518 Universitat Jaume I, E-12006, Castellón de la Plana, Spain [log in to unmask]