The Institute of Library and Museum Services (IMLS)
awarded the University of Chicago Library a National Leadership Grant to support the hosting of national forums on GIS librarianship.
Organized in collaboration with the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), the project -
GIS Librarians for Open Workflows (GLOW), will focus on the workflows
of librarians and library staff charged with supporting geographic information systems (GIS) and its use across diverse academic disciplines. The grant will support multiple in-person forums, workshops, and coordination of existing and new open educational
resources (OERs).
Apply now to attend the in-person forum that will take place December
7-9, 2022 at the University of Chicago Library. The deadline for applications is October 7, 2022, and applicants will be notified of decisions by October 21, 2022.
Travel, lodging, and meal expenses will be reimbursed for the applicants selected to participate.
Leading the project is Cecilia Smith, Director of Digital Scholarship at the UChicago Library and former GIS and Maps Librarian, in collaboration with Diana Sinton, Senior Research Fellow at the UCGIS.
The Library will host exchanges with librarians around their existing consulting and instructional workflows and practices, and their development and use of open educational resources (OERs). To provide meaningful relevance for the GIS librarian community
as a whole, the forums will ground these exchanges in concrete examples from social justice, health, and infrastructure application areas. The two forums being planned will inform the production and deployment of the commonly duplicated workflows and activities
undertaken within university library contexts, building on shared vocabularies and practices. A second focal area includes review of current and future digital platforms regularly used as portals for data search and dissemination.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation's libraries and museums. The IMLS National Leadership Grant for Libraries “support projects of national
impact that address significant challenges and opportunities facing the library and archives fields and have the potential to advance theory and practice.”
Please direct questions about the GLOW Forums to Cecilia Smith,
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