Hi all,

At the American Library Association Annual Conference last week in New Orleans, the Map and Geospatial Information Round Table presented a very interesting program on Spatial Humanities.  Here is the coverage in American Libraries Magazine.

https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/spatial-humanities-libraries/

Spatial humanities are “the ‘why’ of ‘where’ in the humanities,” said Katherine Hart Weimer, head of the Kelley Center for Government Information, Data and Geospatial Services at Rice University. More than just mapping places on Earth, spatial humanities research explores the relationships between multiple objects, processes, or phenomena.

Weimer was joined by two other panelists to provide an introduction to spatial humanities and its potential as an aspect of library instruction and its role in student research at “Understanding and Using Spatial Humanities: Digital Mapping at the Forefront of Scholarly Research,” moderated by Leslie Wagner, chair of the Map and Geospatial Information Round Table, on Saturday, June 23, at the ALA Annual Conference and Exhibition.

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Louise

Louise Ratliff

Social Sciences and Map Catalog Librarian
UCLA Library Cataloging & Metadata Center
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Los Angeles, CA 90095-7230

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