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GIS Education @ UNR
Erich PurpurGIS LibrarianDeLaMare Science & Engineering LibraryUniversity of Nevada, [email protected]
What I do-Serve the users of the DeLaMare Science & Engineering Library and the UNR Campus community
-GIS is only part of my job-Care for the Makerspace-Supervise students-Liaison to various engineering departments-Day to day library stuff
My Own Experience-Disclaimer: I am not an expert!
-My experience is mostly as an end user
-Land use/land cover management projects
My personal struggleWhere to start?What to teach?
80/20 Rule-80% of people need 20% of what ArcGIS can do
-People want to visualize their data/research in order to recognize spatial patterns in the data
Example:-Social Work Faculty
-Reno Homeless Project
What teaching strategy is best?It’s a toss up
What Next?-GIS/Geospatial Data Center
-many academic libraries offer some level of GIS support
-Simple? -Walk in sessions
-Or Advanced?-Data Storage-App Development-High Level Computing
Erich PurpurGIS LibrarianDeLaMare Science & Engineering LibraryUniversity of Nevada, [email protected]
Thank you. Any Questions?
