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GIS Professional Meeting

The Columbia University Libraries were pleased to hold a one-day professional meeting for GIS librarians affiliated with libraries devoted to academic research to discuss emerging issues in the field of GIS librarianship.

The first meeting took place on Friday, April 15th, 2005 in Electronic Data Services (EDS) located in Lehman Library. The agenda is below:

TimeAgenda
9:00 - 9:30Registration, coffee, etc.
9:30 - 9:45Introductions & Greeting
10:00 - 11:00Roundtable review of GIS programs at attendees' institutions, demonstrations of special programs, information exchange
11:15 - 12:00Problems & issues that can be improved via networking with other Librarians
12:00 - 1:30Lunch
1:30 - 2:15Speaker: Mark Becker
Topic: Managing & Preserving Geospatial Electronic Records
2:30 - 3:15What's next?


The second meeting took place on May 15th, 2006. Please follow the link below for a summary of events:

GIS Librarian's Conference II



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