Policies for Geospatial Collections: a Research in US and Canadian Academic Libraries

Vardakosta, Ifigenia and Kapidakis, Sarantos Policies for Geospatial Collections: a Research in US and Canadian Academic Libraries., 2012 . In 2nd Workshop on Digital Information Management., Corfu (GR), April 25-26, 2012. (Unpublished) [Conference paper]

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Geographic information is essential to economical and political implications. Τhe technological development of recent years and the simplicity of many applications have made it part of everyday life of citizens. It is common to libraries, especially those who serve departments interested in geographic content to organize such collections and provide services to their users. The rapid diffusion of free data in the internet and the growth of open access software have begun to affect libraries in adopting policies related to the collections and services of GIS. The work presented in this paper seeks, through the investigation of geospatial collection development policies’ of 21 academic libraries in United States and Canada to identify those characteristics reflecting their adaptation to the new era of open data.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: Geospatial collections, collection development policies, academic libraries, open data, surveys
Subjects: D. Libraries as physical collections. > DD. Academic libraries.
Depositing user: Ιφιγένεια Βαρδακώστα
Date deposited: 23 Aug 2012
Last modified: 31 Jan 2021 11:10
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/17449

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