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<h2>Exploring GIS</h2>
<p>Evan Thornberry | GIS Librarian</p>
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<aside class="notes">
I want to first acknowledge that I am joining you on or surrounded
by the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the
xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh),
Stz’uminus (Chemainus), S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō), and Skwxwú7mesh-ulh
Temíx̱w (Squamish) peoples. And I want to also acknowledge that we're
here talking about GIS, which is deeply rooted in settler expansion
and natural resource inventorying. And so I think it's especially
important for us as people thinking about or users of geographic
information to recognize the role it has played on the history of
the lands where we live. So please, at some point today take a
moment now and then to think about Indigenous histories,
territories, and knowledge systems in the context of of GIS,
map-making, governance, and other topics that come up in discussion.
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<h2>
<a href="https://native-land.ca/" target="_blank">native-land.ca</a>
</h2>
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Also, please be aware of Native Land Digital: the Indigenous led
organization that works to bring awareness to the spatial fabric of
volunteered territories languages and treaties around the world.
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<h2 style="color:white;">Libraries + GIS</h2>
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Jumping into my presentation, I want to first just provide a little
context for how my role fits into the scope of the GIS profession. -
Technically I'm a librarian, and as a librarian, I'm an information
manager. In my case geographic or spatial information. - What does
that mean? Well, I like to describe the goals of my job as being to
provide services and resources that will advance teaching, learning,
and research at UBC, as well as the community. But all of my
colleagues are librarians who have other special qualities that they
bring to work. So, really I'm just part of a team of folks who act
as point people for specific areas of research and education. I
included a picture here of the first library wherre I worked which
was at WWU in Bellngham, WA. I worked there between 2004 and 2009 as
an undergrad and grad student, and at that time maps were the
primary focus of the library. You can tell by all of the map cases
in the photos. But a lot has changed in the digital world since
then, so my primary focus today is much different, which I'll talk
about.
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<h2>Resources</h2>
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<li>
maps
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<li>
data
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<li>
software
</li>
<li>
hardware
</li>
<li>
space
</li>
</ul>
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I'll describe to you what I mean by resources – First, I oversee a
collection of about 200k maps, with a particular strength of maps of
BC and western canada. And as I showed in the last slide, maps and
libraries have a long history together. Much of the use today in the
map collection is based on historical research in a certain area,
and GIS can be an important tool for understanding historical map
features and information - even if it's found on paper. Next, we
have a data collection which we make accessible to our users through
a data repository. This is probably one of the most important
aspects of my job, is to make sure our users have access to the data
they need for their class assignment, teaching, or research. Much
like a traditional librarian bought mostly books and journals, I buy
data. I also provide access to proprietary software for users to
work with spatial data. In many cases this requires the library to
arrange a license for use, or wokring with our IT department to make
sure the software can run in a lab setting. Then, there's the
hardware - computers, printers, scanners, etc., as well as
provisioning remote access to machines during COVID times. And
finally space. along with my colleagues, we manage 2 computer labs.
And we also provide space for our services which I'll talk about
next.
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<h2>Services</h2>
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<li>
consultations
</li>
<li>
workshops
</li>
<li>
email
</li>
<li>
partnership
</li>
</ul>
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As far as the services, one of the main ones is consultations where
I meet with folks either as a group or as a team dicusss anything
realted to access to or use of geospatial information. Sometimes
this is an analytical consultation, where folsk are able to bounce
questions off me regarding their approach to their analysis of
spatial data. Other times consultations are more of a projecct
scoping exercise where we'll look at the feasbility of an idea
someone might have for a grant or research. So consultations can be
for a very wide range of things. I also facilitate the development
and delivery of open GIS workshops. Mainly these are beginner-level
wokshops to get people started using or thinging about GIS. We
usually offer ~ 8 workshops each term. Additionally, we have an
active "help" email which is managed two phd students and myself, so
it taps into the collective wisdom of our team. This has been super
handy for folks to just ask quick question that not a lot of context
is needed like, do you have data for landfills in BC, or traffic
data, or whatever else. Then, of course a big part of what I do it
partner with others on campus or in the community as an "spatial
information specialist". For example Geodisy was a partnership
between several librarians and organizations in Canada to build a
spatail discovery layer for research data published here.
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<h3>best parts of my job:</h3>
<p>(1) working across disciplines</p>
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<h3>best parts of my job:</h3>
<p>(2) managing collections</p>
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<h3>How did I become a GIS Librarian</h3>
<p>undergrad in geography</p>
<p>masters in library and information science</p>
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</section>
<section>
<h3>How did I become a GIS Librarian</h3>
<p>finding a community</p>
<p>not being shy</p>
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<h1>Thank you!</h1>
<p>[email protected]</p>
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