Geo-librarian wanted: geographic data come to the library
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https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2013.nov.10Keywords:
Geographic data, Information units, Collection management, Geographic services in libraries, Geolibrarian, Geographic information systems (GIS), Data curation, Data sets.Abstract
The increased proliferation and accessibility of geographic data are changing the landscape of services based on geographic information. From the analysis of recent job offers posted in American university libraries, we discuss what could be the role of the information professional in this new context, with respect to the management and dissemination of geographic data collections, looking for synergies for mutual benefit between academic libraries and their information professionals and the geographic data community that uses geographic information systems (GIS). In fact, this activity would be one more among the data curation or data sets preservation tasks needed currently in many disciplines.
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