| Authors: | Vardakosta, Ifigenia Kapidakis, Sarantos |
| Issue Date: | 1-Apr-2012 |
| Conference: | 2nd Workshop on Digital Information Management, 2012 |
| Keywords: | Geospatial collections, Collection development policies, Academic libraries, Open data, Surveys |
| Abstract: | 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. |
| URL: | http://eprints.rclis.org/17449/ |
| URI: | https://uniwacris.uniwa.gr/handle/3000/499 |
| Type: | Conference Paper |
| Department: | Department of Archival, Library and Information Studies |
| School: | School of Administrative, Economics and Social Sciences |
| Affiliation: | University of West Attica (UNIWA) |
| Appears in Collections: | Conference Papers or Poster or Presentation / Δημοσιεύσεις σε Συνέδρια |
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